Timing is everything, they say.

And that Orlando’s new “Get Cooking” program, a collaboration between the legendary Norman Van Aken and successful food blogger Stacie Archer,  dropped the same week as news that the cost of living comfortably here, for just one person, is over $100,000 a year, is timing that can’t be ignored.

Chef Norman Van Aken at the livestream set at Valencia’s Culinary School in downtown Orlando. (Rich Pope/Orlando Sentinel)

“It kills me to see people in such dire straits when it comes to having quality food for themselves and their families,” says the

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