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Experiencing Italian Cuisine up close

December 12, 2017February 15, 2019 youth4food

The experience from working in the kitchen at Giorgione’s has made me curious to travel more and learn about different food cultures.

Chef apprentices Christer and Carl Henrik at Bekkjarvik gjestgiveri outside of Bergen got the opportunity to visit the gastronomic city of Parma for three weeks. There they worked in two different restaurants and got to experience Italian food culture up close.

In between working in the kitchen they visited the Parma city centre, where the kitchen chef from Ristorante Giorgione’s shared some facts about the history, architecture, and restaurants of the city. They got to taste raw horse meat, which is characteristic for the Parma region.

Christer and Carl Henrik also visited ALMA, an international school for Italian food and food culture, the ham producer Culatello di Zibello, a vineyard as well as a parmesan producer. They were both impressed by the magnitude of the cheeses that were maturing. The oldest cheese had been maturing for over 108 months!

Three chef students in Sweden

December 12, 2017February 15, 2019 youth4food

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Three chefs in Sweden

Three students from Voss upper secondary school; Kanokwan, Martine og Stine went to Östersund to learn more about the regions gastronomy, as well as how the gastronomy education in Sweden is in practice.

Here they got to visit local dairy producers and got a lot of information on how to create a dairy business. They also gained some insight in how restaurant Hov is managed, both through working as chefs and waitors there.

Some of the students also participated in a session learning about pastries and confectionary.

And of course they learned how to make some Swedish specialties, for example the traditional crispbread!

Sharing best teaching practices between Dénia and Bergen

December 12, 2017February 15, 2019 youth4food

At the end of april the two chef teachers Vincent and Olivia from IES MARIA IBARES in Dénia visited Norway, to share Spanish teaching practices and cooking traditions, as well as participate in Norwegian ones.

Vincent and Olivias experience started with working at Bekkjarvik Gjestgiveri on the tranquil island of Selbjørn about one and a half hour outside of Bergen. There they learned about the restaurants practice, as well as they shared traditional gastronomy from Dénia, such as paella, “cocas” and Spanish omelette.

On the island they also got to experience traditional fishing, and were surprised by the size of the fishes. They were a lot bigger in Norway than in Spain!

After a week in Bekkjarvik followed a visit to Sandsli upper secondary school, where the teachers from Sandsli and Dénia shared ideas and different ways of working and evaluating students. And of course they cooked some traditional Spanish dishes here as well.

Our visitors also held a master class at Voss upper secondary school about Spanish traditional dishes, while also serving some of them.

At the end of the stay Olivia and Vincent made an amazing paella in a park in the Bergen city centre, to everyone’s great pleasure!