A single parent with three sons, Sharda Deolall resides on the West Bank Demerara. From her home she established Sharda’s Catering in 2013. For the past seven years she has been ‘turning out’ a range of gastronomic delights…cakes, pastries, finger foods, bread and black pudding. Sharda’s Catering also offers a range of what one might call good, old-fashioned Guyanese meals including fried rice, cook up rice, roti and dhal puri.
When we spoke with Sharda earlier this week she was preoccupied with Christmas and inevitably with the culinary side of the season. Cakes, she says, are good sellers, one pound packages of Black Cake, Fruit Cake and Sponge Cake. The asking prices are $6,000, $5,000 and $4,000, respectively. For the nostalgic foodies she is preparing limited quantities of aniseed bread…the asking price? $500 per loaf.
