Cooking skills assist in meeting nutrition guidelines and help people make healthier food choices. Thus, it is essential to teach students to understand the importance of cooking and motivate them to learn basic cooking skills. Learning cooking skills as a skill is a great choice for anyone. It helps us increase our knowledge of different [...]

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“Josephian future chefs” – A competition and a food festival

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Cooking skills assist in meeting nutrition guidelines and help people make healthier food choices. Thus, it is essential to teach students to understand the importance of cooking and motivate them to learn basic cooking skills.

Learning cooking skills as a skill is a great choice for anyone. It helps us increase our knowledge of different cuisines and flavours around the world. Becoming more aware of how meals are constructed means you will pay more attention to what you eat which will result in smarter, more delicious and healthy choices.

Cooking teaches critical thinking, collaboration and creativity. Cooking is a life skill and supports Math, Science, Language, Social Emotional Development, Physical development and Cognitive development.

In these contexts, the   Students   of   Grade  05  of   the  Primary  School   of   St. Joseph’s  College   Colombo 10  organised  a  food  festival  recently at the  College   Premises.

This idea was the brain child of Rev. Fr. Ranjith Andradi, the Rector of St.Joseph’s College, and Colombo 10. It was planned by Rev.Fr.Priyan S.Tissera, the Principal of of the Primary School, the Class   Teachers   and   the   subject Teachers in the Grade 05 section.

The   students   wore   the   attire   of   a   chef – the apron   and   the   chef’s   hat.  Each   class   had  dressed  in  different  colours  and   named  themselves  accordingly,  red  the “Master Chefs”,   blue  the “ Cooking  Monsters”,   yellow  the  “Ceylon  Chefs”, green  the  “Cooking Busters”,  orange  the “King  Cooks”,   purple  the  “Captain  Cooks”  and   pink  the  “Fine  Chefs”.

While   the   students   were  busy  making  the  food   items   there   was   Chef  Charitha Anuradha, Chef  Piyatissa  Silva from  Vertical  by   Jetwing,  also Mr. Kanishka Kulathunga the  General Manager of Verticle   by  Jetwing  was  present. Chef Sudamika  Bandara   the  Executive Sous   Chef   from   Cinnamon  Grand Hotel   and  Chef  Kingsly Weerasinghe the Executive  Pastry  Chef  and   Chef  Upul Malawarachchi the Sous Chef from  Kingsbury Hotel  were  present .

When   all classes   completed   the   task   of   making   the food   items they presented   it   in a common   high tea platter.  The   veteran   Chefs   chose   the Winner, 1st Runner up and the 2nd Runner up.

The  2nd  Runner  up   were   the  students of  Grade  5 S6  they  were  known  as    “Captain  Cook”   the   1st  Runner  up  were  the  students   of   Grade 5 S 5   known  as
“ Cooking  Monsters”  and   the   “Winners   were   the   “Ceylon   Chefs”, the students of Grade 5S2”   who  made  the   food   items   with   the   traditional   ingredients   namely   cutlets   made   of  polos,  pancakes  with  pani pol, mango  juice  etc.

The   grand   finale   ended   with the awards ceremony.   It was   a   wonderful day filled with  excitement, enjoyment   and mainly educative.

Rev.Fr.Ranjith Andradi wishes to thank the Organizer of this programme,
Rev. Fr. Priyan  Tissera,   the  Principal   of  the  Primary  School  of St. Joseph’s  College  Colombo 10, the Teachers and the Parents for their valuable contributions to make this event a great success.

- Maruthai Ravindhiran

 

 

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