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You work in the adult education sector? You are interested in developing tasty offers for your target groups? Have a look at our concept where we use cooking as a starting point for several learning activities. More about our philosophy you will find on this website!

Here you can find a german version of the concept.

Now it is time to go back to the beginning: after having coffee and cookies - we talked about food and enviroment.

Learning Kitchen is not only about cooking but also about languages: Bun venit!

And in this case it was also about the relations between food and enviroment as we can find it in our daily kitchen lives.

Here is Eni explaining the issue how it is in her country, in Rumania.

Dorothee and Onno from Germany talking about meat and what it means in terms of enviroment and food habits.

Silvia talking about the situation in Austria.

After so much work it is time to go on to more practical things: Shopping at the nearby market, the so called Meisel Markt in Vienna.

Lots of nice fresh stuff!

We found everything we need for our upcoming cooking session.

 

 

Of course I know, that the copyrigth for this expression is not in my hands. But nevertheless, I feel it does express the philosophy of the Learning Kitchen very clear.

Yes, we can!
Resource-oriented education in the kitchen

During two days, 16 women from five different European countries cooked, took photographs and shot movies together, and documented their common work on the computer and on the internet. This was, briefly said, the “Learning Kitchen Event” in June 2009 in Darmstadt, an event within the framework of the corresponding learning partnership GRUNDTVIG. The intended goal of “Learning kitchen“ is to measure and make useable the potential of a kitchen and of cooking for educational purposes. Read more…

We had the possibility to published this article in a german culinary scientific magazine. So who is able to read and understand German, might also have a look at it there and enjoy the other interesting articles there.

 

 

This was the first big Learning Kitchen Event: It took place in Darmstadt, Germany. Our aim was to investigate in which way cooking competences can be used as a starting point for other learning activities. The project will investigate how cooking events can make older learners aware of their informal competences and motivate them to enrole in educational offers.

16 people from five different countries met in order to cook and to learn together. Our kitchen was a studio in the Bioversum, a museum dealing with nature. Onno and Dorothee, our hosts for this event, brought along the complete kitchen equipment from the Kochwerkstatt. So we had everything we needed, much space and a wonderful workshop atmomphere!

Silvia, Cecilia and Eni from Romania.

This is Neli from Romania.

 

 Simona, Dita, Bozena and Dagmar from Czech Republic.

Giuseppina and Simone from Italy - they do not belong to the partnership, but worked with us as our guests.

Elfi, Maria and Silvia from Austria.

Sonja from Austria - I am afraid, there was no photo from all of us.

Dorothee and . . .

. . . Onno from Germany, the host of our event.

Every team prepared a meal out of eggs and flour, milk or water, oil, butter, salt or sugar in order to introduce themself and their respective country. So we could enjoy different types of pancake, Schmarren and Pasta!  In addition to that we also tasted different food - from cheese to jam - every team has brought along from his country. We cooked and eat a lot, but we also took lots of pictures! This was also on the agenda of the event: How to document cooking processes, so that other persons can follow the instructions easily. See more of it on our YouTube-Site.

After lunch and a short break we met again for a little media-workshop with examples from films and photos about cooking processes. We also listened to the sound of cooking activities - for example the boiling of hot oil. This was a good preparation for our own work in the afternoon.

Here you can see all the food stuff Onno and Dorothee had prepared for our dinner cooking session. We planned to cook four courses: soup, terrine, roulade and pastry. We worked in - in terms of nationality - mixed teams and every team documented the cooking process.

Preparing the soup . . .

. . . with vegetable, meat and spices.

Fish terrine . . .

. . . made out of wonderful fresh trout. See the recipe.

Cooperation for . . .

. . . making pasta for an extra course.

Out of the pasta dough Neli and Silvia prepared “a little something” - crispy, sweet and very good!

Wild pig stuffed . . .

. . . with bacon and fresh beans - variation of an italian receipe.

Cecilia was the chef of . . .

. . .  the sweet cuisine - with an exeptional cake.

Eating together - has to be documented as well. 

The next day started with looking at all the pictures . . .

. . . and working with them on the computer.

Interesting and intensive work! Still it was only sort of an impulse for further activities. Have a look at one example.

We enjoyed the cooking event very much: in terms of intercultural exchange and friendship, in terms of learning from each other, in terms of the place and the food!

 

These are New Year Greetings from my kitchen to all partners of the Learning Kitchen!! In Austria we call this “Striezel”, it is made of flour, yeast, milk, eggs and butter. The recipe I use comes from my mother. I would like to know whether you have similar pastries in your countries?

Just let me know and try the comment-button!

What do you do, if you want to establish good relationship with people you don´t know? You share meal with them. And that´s what we did during the kick-off-meeting of The Learning Kitchen - and we all enjoyed it!

Apart from our discussions on the project and how to manage it in a good way, we took our time to have wunderful culinary expeditions to one of the most interesting places of vienna - the Naschmarkt.

We found lots of fruits, vegetables, wonderful smelling sausage and great bread.

We found sweets and pastry, so good and beautiful and we had coffee together outside in the morning sun.

 

 In the end we were very sure: it will be an interesting and inspiring project - our learning kitchen!

This Grundtvig Learning Partnership will investigate in which ways the treasure of culinaric experience and cooking competences of older women can be put to good use in order

• to motivate them to participate in new learning activities
• to empower their key competences, including ICT and social skills
• to strengthen their creativity and their own initiative