OurFoodFuture — by Karolina Salazar
Pam Fanjoy started her career as a clinical social worker and worked throughout the health care sector for 25 years. In 2010, Pam decided to start taking culinary lessons as a personal outlet for some fun and eventually graduated from George Brown College with a Culinary Management degree in 2013. While still practicing social work, she had started cooking prepared healthy meals for professionals, which was so well received that she opened a storefront in Erin in 2014.
Pam later created Fan/Joy, where she refined her line of Gourmet to Go frozen meals and continued exploring the synergies between her two greatest passions: helping youth and families improve their mental health and food. The connection seemed natural to her and she began whisking up recipes with therapeutic techniques that helped people to learn new coping skills, better communication and how to collaborate with others through cooking classes for youth, families, and individuals.
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