Activities in Italy

   FUSION MENU ACTIVITY (VIDEO while working at school , photos at CHJOSTRO while preparing evening and menu brochure)

 

Why to cook together

The activity was carried out because we think that “we are human only if we are mixed blood because mixed blood is a sign of civilization especially in a society which becomes more and more multicultural and intercultural”. Cooking, more than anything else, helps to blur the boundaries of cultures as it lets us, for example, eat Italian food with Spanish and Portuguese spices or German and Danish food with ingredients or products that are typically Italian.

Description of the Fusion menu activity

Morning (from 9:00 to 1:00 PM)

Students  (each country had brought a complete menu with typical dishes)  worked in mixed groups with a student Chef from the alberghiero school on a single course of the menu

1st group: starters or side dish

2nd group: first course

3rd group: second course

4th group: dessert

Afternoon

Students (in the same morning groups)prepared their new recipe at “THE CHJOSTRO” restaurant under the supervision of the teachers and the master chef and took part in the menu competition

 

Their task was to

- look through the recipes of the same course of the different countries and choose the

one which could  be transformed, enriched, characterized by elements coming from  

 recipes of the same type

-  give it a name

- modify the original recipe with the agreed changes

- prepare a shopping list for the preparation of the recipe for the competition (there will

 be a jury of seven people)

- organize a presentation of the recipe for the evening competition

- upload the prepared material in an e-menu to be given to the jury at the evening

 

THE RESULT

The menu as a result of the work of the different groups (BROCHURE)

STARTER

FIVE SHADES OF EUROPE

FIRST COURSE

Kartoffelbrei and pumpkin

SECOND COURSE

Meat Germark with potatoes

DESSERT:

Rice with Catalan cream.

 

EACH GROUP’s WORK WITH THEIR RATIONALE

GROUP ONE

THE recipe

FIVE SHADES OF EUROPE 

 

INGREDIENTS:

FILO PASTA-1 PACKAGE

CHAMPIGNONS MUSHROOMS-300 G

SALTED CODFISH-500G

POTATOES- 250 G

STALE BREAD 1 PIECE

RIPE TOMATOES-1KG

RED AND GREEN PEPPERS 500G

CUCUMBER 1

GARLIC 1 PACKAGE

OIL 1 LT

SALT

PARSLEY 100G

OLIVES 100G

BASIL 100G

PEPPER

CAPERS 100G

 

PROCEDURE:

SALT FISH WITH OIL AND GRILL, DO THE SAME WITH MUSHROOMS, BOIL THE POTATOES, MUSHROOMS, SALTED COD, PARSLEY, PUT SALT AND PEPPERS; FORM RAVIOLI WITH FILO PASTRY, FILL THEM WITH POTATOES, SALTED COD AND MUSHROOMS

GAZPACHO SOUP: MIX TOMATOES, PEPPERS, CUCUMBER, GARLIC, BASIL, OLIVE OIL, SALT PEPPERS, OLIVES,CAPERS. SPIN THEM ALL. SQUEEZE BREAD AND ADD IT TO THE OTHER INGREDIENTS, USE THE CHINOIS, FRY RAVIOLI IN PEANUT OIL, PUT EVERYTHING TOGETHER

 

Group 1

MEMBERS: Christoffer Petersen, Cloe Frutos, Beatrice Parisi, Giovanna Crispino, Ana Nogueira, Athanasia Tarfali, Eleni Agoudi

 

Type of course: Starter

 

Name of the starter: five shades of Europe

The reasons why we have chosen these ingredients are:

-they are typical ingredients of the different countries, but ,at the same time, you could taste them in each of them.

-We think that they are good together to create a new recipe.

-we have chosen this name because it’s a fun way to explain the diversity of the food in Europe.

-We have invented a new recipe by mixing and amending known ingredients to make our plate special and original.

 

GROUP TWO

Kartoffelbrei and pumpkin 

 

INGREDIENTS:

1,5 kg pumpkin,

1 kg Potatoes,

1 piece of bread ,

110 g Butter,

Oil, 1 onion,

1 garlic,

300 dl White wine

,Salt and pepper,

500 ml cream Celery,

200g carrots.

Optional : ingredients : fresh nutmeg, pumpkin seeds, a little bit of vinegar,

Preparation:

mix the butter in a tray in medium fire and add some oil so you don’t burn it. Add pieces of pumpkin, chopped onion and garlic and cook it at least it become translucent. Cook it for 7-10 min, mixing it.

Pour the white wine and the broth and leave it to boil

Take your mixer and transform the soup in purè

Finally add cream and mix it. It should be orange/yellow

Leave it to cook 5-10 min mixing it frequently

 

Group 2

Members:

• Florentine Bloeck

• Lara Jansen

• Vanessa Mustafova

• Ana Silva

• Lasse Sjoberg

 

Title of the recipe:

Kartofelbrei mit Pumpkin

 

Reasons why:

We know the ingredients and like them

Ingredients fit together

Chef told us it will be tasty

 

Why is it good to get know other cultures through their food?

 

It is good because of the diversity that you can get to know. Especially when you want to learn new tastes, it is good to eat food from many different countries. You can learn through food the culture as well, as example if they eat really spicy or not

 

GROUP THREE

 

Meat Germark with potatoes

Ingredients:

6 slices of pork loin

2 apples

Fresh thyme

Salt and sugar

500kg Sausages

 

Ingredients:

200kg potatoes

2 tsp of olive oil

2 tsp of chopped garlic

Rosemary

Black pepper

Salt

Preparation:

Cut the sliced loin thin and stuff it with dough of sausages. In a separate pot prepare the soup.

Preparation:

Put the potatoes in a bowl.

Cut them into slices and put it in a pan with salt, oil, black pepper and rosemary and put it in to the oven.

Group three

Alba Garcia

Natàlia Pezzullo

Ines Alexandra Conde Pinto

Selin Kadioglu

Kamilla Olsen

 

MEAT GERMARK LOVE WITH POTATOES

Why have we chosen that dish?

We have chosen two different dishes of two countries:

Germany and Denmark.

We want to do something with meat and also with

potatoes because vegetarians can also eat it.

We chose pork meat with apple because we think

that it’s complicated but also it seems to be tasty;

And then we chose Baked Potatoes with garlic and

rosemary because it doesn’t contain meat so vegetarians

can eat it.

Why have we chosen that name?

We have chosen this name because one dish is from Denmark and

the other one is from Germany, so we create a new word by mixing

them together. (Germark)

And then we also mixed that word with the name of the Denmark dish

that is ‘Meat Love’, and we also put ‘with potatoes’ because the German

dish contains potatoes.

So the final name is ‘Meat Germark love with potatoes’.

Why is it possible to get know another culture by its food?

Because each country has its  typical food so you can recognize the

country by eating it.

For example if you eat potatoes you will think about German because in

German is very typical eating them. Or if you think about pizza or pasta

you will match it with Italy.

So in conclusion we think that food is a good way to enter the cultures of

other countries

 

GROUP FOUR

 

Rice with Catalan cream

 

75cl of milk

6 tbsp of sugar (soup)

6 egg yolks

Cinnamon (to taste)

30g of starch

Lemon zest (to taste)

1. Mix the sugar with the yolks, until making a paste.

2. Heat the milk, without getting to boil, with cinnamon and with the lemon zest.

3. Take a small glass of warm milk and put a spoonful of starch (soup).

4. Mix the glass of milk and starch with the sugar and yolks, then slowly put the mixture in the fire and stir until thick.

5. Take half the cream and put it into 7 cups, and put them into the freezer for 15-30 min. Let the other half stay on the table

 

Ingredients Milk rice:

2 cups of rice

6 cups of milk

Pinch of salt

Lemon zest from 1 lemon

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

4 tbsp of sugar

4 tbsp of yogurt

1. Clean your rice and bring it to boil with milk, salt and lemon zest.

2. Lower the temperature and cook for 15-20 min. (don’t forget to stir).

3. When ready take of the heat and add sugar, vanilla extract and yogurt. Cover and set aside to cool.

Together:

1. Take the 7 cups out of the freezer. Divide the Milk rice into the 7 cups and put in the fridge for 10-15 min.

2. Take the 7 cups out of the fridge. Divide the other half of the cream into the 7 cups. Put that in the freezer for 10-20 min.

3. Take the 7 cups out of the freezer. If not ready to serve put them in the fridge.

4. When ready to serve put sugar on top and burn it with a blowtorch.

5. Put the cherries and mint on top and serve.

We hope that you enjoy.

GROUP 4

DESSERT:

TITLE: Rice with Catalan cream.

Why have we chosen this title?

-Because it is a mix of the two desserts names.

Why have we chosen this recipe?

-We have chosen this recipe because it’s a mix of three different countries.

-The Catalan one, with the Catalan cream, the German one, with the milk rice and the Danish one, because the way we serve the dish is similar to “aeblekage” a Danish dessert.

Why is the food good to know more about other countries?

-Because we can know about the different types of food that we can find in each country.

What ingredients have we used?

-This dessert has so simple ingredients that you can find in the supermarket, which makes it easy to everybody to cook it. Some of the ingredients are:

+Lemon +Rice

+Cinnamon +Mint

+Milk +Salt

+Sugar +Vanilla extract

+Eggs +Yogurt

+Starch +Cherry

How can we prepare it?

-We start doing the Catalan cream for one part, and the rice with milk by the other part.

-Then when it had be finished, we put one slice of Catalan cream in to a bowl and fridge it about 1h, later we take it off and put it on the rice and place it in to the fridge another time, then we wait some minutes and we take it off and we add a second slice of Catalan cream, and we put into the fridge for the last time.

-Then it’s ready to serve it, but before it, we have to put some sugar in to the top and burned with a blowtorch, and for decorate it we put a leaf of mint and cherries, and it’s all.

-We wish that you enjoyed.

Helena Freya Natasja Ainhoa Joana Lara

 

ACTIVITY 2

Prejudice and stereotypes

"If we fight them , diversity can only be a source of enrichment"

our tree of life (PHOTO)

tree of life activity ( photos)GAME

The aim of the game is:

- to experience that we are more similar than we think

- to create a common tree of life

Preparation: students are asked to draw their own trees of life. From these, 25 less/more common important things in the roots, trunks and leaves of the single student’s trees of life are selected in order to prepare the checklist for the “Find someone who/whose...” (photo) sheet

How to play

Students use the prepared checklist as they walk around the room trying to find a person who has one of the 25 things selected by the student’s tree of life. When students find “someone who…” or “someone whose...,” they write that person’s name on their paper checklist and move on to the next person with the hope that that person meets one of the other 25 things on the master list. One of the goals is to meet and talk to as many people as possible within the time limit in order to put one name by each of the 25 “find someone who/whose…” statements; the other is to complete the different parts of the common tree of life.

 

FROM INEQUALITY TO DIFFERENCE

Teachers and students while working with

the expert, Dr de MICCO (photos)

Description

UNDER THE GUIDE OF THE EXPERT Di MICCO students played  the PROJECTION GAME

The aim of the game is to let the participants understand that prejudice and intolerance are often the result of the need to get free from our or our social group’s negative elements. It is important the conductor whose role has to be maieutic: he or she has to let the participants grasp that the motivations by which they send other participants out are the need to get free from those parts of themselves that they hate more, the parts they do not recognize as belonging to themselves and the reason for that is the fact they totally project them onto the others as a release . As the game is a psychological method, the conductor, who should be an expert, has to take notes of the participants’ motivations during the game in order to discuss them with the participants after the game.

How to play:

The participants (the best number is between 20-25 ) are set in a circle. The conductor of the game (a teacher, a psychotherapist or a psychologist) has to start the game asking one of the participants to leave the circle. Once he/she has left, the conductor asks the remaining participants:  “who wants X (the participant who has left the circle ) to be out of the group and why? ” It is very important that the motivation is expressed in this way: “…… because he/she is…….”. So each participant who wants to send X out has to express his/her motivation. Then X is asked to come back to the circle and to say, according to him /her, who got him /her out of the group (he or she knows only the first, but not the other players who decided for him or her) and their motivation saying: “he/she got me out of the group because I am …” This can be repeated two or three times usually asking the person who has gone out to send another participant out.

 

The result

They  have experienced that

- OUR PREJUDICE tells more about ourselves than those against whom we are prejudiced

 

-We usually tend to project onto other people what we don’t accept about ourselves and we refuse what may destabilize us

-The more worried and confused we are , the less tolerant we are towards others or what we have inside ourselves that we cannot accept

 

Through the WORKSHOP HELD BY THE EXPERT Di Micco , teachers (photos)

-debated how difficult is to face adolescents’ prejudicial and discriminatory attitudes because their own identity is still developing and  it is often confused by doubts and afterthoughts.

Exchanging experiences and discussing , the teachers ,under the guide of the expert , agreed that

-fighting prejudices and discrimination requires a hard work of rethinking and acceptance not only of the other people’s differences but much more, of what we feel : bad and dirty in ourselves .

-we are afraid that these parts prevent us from being loved and we wish to throw them out by despising them in someone else because they make us feel inferior and useless

 

 

Activity three

Treasure hunt : AVERSEEING

https://prezi.com/view/wlbiRuZVi7ufDk7Oqr3y/
DESCRIPTION

The activity was intended to:

- encourage the foreign students involved in the project to explore Aversa, its history, its main landmarks and its culinary tradition in order to discover similarities and differences with their own home towns.

- give the Italian students, especially the ones of the tourism department, the opportunity to create something which could be appealing for young people.

 

THE TASK

A treasure hunt seemed to be the right way to fulfil the task. It was carried out by following a Google™ map showing the main places of interest on their mobile phones.

To get to the final destination the students had to listen to the recorded information on the main places of interest, solve puzzles about them and be involved in theatrical performances.

The texts, the recording and the performances were made by the students with their teachers’ support.

Once they had reached the final destination, they got the prize which consisted of a banquet prepared by the school’s teachers and the students’ parents with typical dishes. They listened to a traditional musical performance and worked on the similarities and differences of their home  towns.

 

RESULTS

The most surprising results have been the ones related to the preparation:

Texts for the main places of interest, their recording, the rehearsal for the theatrical performance, the organization of the Google™ map, were all steps carried out in English by the students of the fourth year of the tourism department. Working together improved relationships between students coming from different classes. Their approach to English helped them to accept different attitudes in facing difficulties. The outcome of their work is certainly not perfect but it is surely the result of a team work where each participant gave a personal contribution.

As for the experience as a whole, it gave the foreign students the possibility to experience the town, its traffic, its urbanization and its history. Above all, the competition between groups was the key factor for the success of the game: students collaborated, interacted, exchanged opinions and found solutions - all absolutely in English.