She first started her Chinese cookery classes by placing a table and coal burner in a small tent set up in a courtyard, in response to requests from her husband's friends 'wives.
會做菜的「程太太」逐漸在先生的同事、朋友間傳開了。她常在家裡宴客，朋友的太太在欣羨之餘，少不得要討教一番。大家都覺得，東一句、西一句的指點，比不上臨場表演來得確實。