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The Foundation of Medical Studies of Molina de Segura (FEM), with the collaboration of the City of Molina de Segura and the sponsorship of the Caixa, has launched the project Education in cooking and healthy eating, aimed at children of four to six years of the Infant Education College of Paseo Rosales and the CEIP Ntra. Sra. la Consolación, and coordinated by Pachi Larrosa, journalist, gastronomic critic and honorary member of Club Gourmet Murcia and academic number of the Gastronomy Academy of the Region of Murcia.
The project was presented at a press conference on Thursday, February 22, at the Molinense City Hall, by the Mayor of the town, Esther Clavero Mira, the President of the FEM, Aurelio Luna Maldonado, the Secretary of the FEM, Fina García Lozano, and Pachi Larrosa, project coordinator.
Education in cooking and healthy eating
The mediatization experienced by the kitchen in recent years is significantly influencing not only the adult population, but also the child population.
Specifically, through television, with the profusion of programs of great audience on this subject, in some cases with the presence of children's participants.
This widespread popularization of the kitchen, together with local experiences such as Breakfasts with Science, driven by the WEF itself, have turned the kitchen into a pedagogical tool of high value, in the task of inspiring in children healthy habits of life, respect for others, the breaking of perverse social roles and the appreciation of teamwork.
In addition, the dissemination of these contents with the participation of children promotes the common accomplishment of tasks in the home of the different members of the family unit.
Cooking and food, as well as sources of health (and illness) and pleasure, invoke an extensive set of stimuli that activate our intellective capacities (imagination, creativity, curiosity), manual and technological skills, and our social, emotional and sensory
When we use the kitchen as an educational tool from the earliest childhood, we are shaping a vast repertoire of answers directly linked to the formation of the student's personality.
The objectives of the project are:
1- To put children in contact with healthy foods, promoting their manipulation and the perception of textures, aromas and flavors, initiating them in the relationships between natural products and what they are on the plate.
2- Link the kitchen and food with a playful, fun, close and creative experience, enhancing the interest in the kitchen.
3- Promote the development of attitudes and habits of respect, help and collaboration, thanks to teamwork.
4- Carry out usual activities and simple tasks to solve problems of daily life with the greatest possible autonomy.
5- To value, for children and their parents, values ​​such as food safety and hygiene, the importance of a balanced diet, the danger of the abuse of prepared foods and processed foods and other bad food uses, as well as the rejection of roles of gender in relation to housework, specifically, the kitchen.
The project is based on the combination of two formats: the cooking workshops, aimed at children and, tangentially, at parents, and the talks-colloquium aimed at parents.
Children's kitchen workshops.
It consists of 90-minute sessions, taught by a chef-trainer of recognized experience in working with children, who will prepare with them a series of culinary preparations, under strict safety standards, in which children can manipulate products, observe their characteristics, combine them and finally, taste the final result.
The training chef will be supported by staff from the Medical Studies Foundation and by the project coordinator.
At the end of that time, two monitors will take the children to another space to do some playful activity, while the parents engage in a small conversation with the trainer and the organizers.
These will solve doubts and make proposals to improve the feeding of children in their homes.
Talks-colloquium.
Conferences with subsequent colloquium aimed at parents of students and taught by renowned researchers, professors and experts in nutrition, physiology of food, bromatology and other food sciences, to be carried out on dates different from those of the workshops.
The first five chefs-trainers who will participate in the project are:
Tomás Écija.
Cook and owner of El Albero (Ceutí) and La Maita (Molina de Segura).
He is one of the most renowned chefs in the Region, which he has represented in large national congresses (Madrid Fusión, Murcia Gastronómica, etc.).
He has extensive experience as a speaker and trainer and has collaborated in more than 60 television programs.
Mireia Ruiz
Pedagogue
Cook
Master Chef contestant 2015. Author of the kitchen project Cooking with smiles.
It maintains a web page and works doing workshops and master class for both children and adults, through which it aims to enhance creativity and taste for cooking.
Fleeing unhealthy products, in the cooking workshops and masterclasses for children, recipes adapted to their level are elaborated and the food safety and hygiene aspects are addressed, offering workshops and masterclasses in which the teaching takes precedence. Side the fun and with whom to share above all gastronomy and smiles.
María Dolores Baró.
Cook, consultant, television presenter and organizer of culinary events, she has a long experience in holding children's cooking workshops, which she develops permanently both externally and in the facilities of her cooking classroom.
Pedro Pedreño.
Cook, child entertainer and teacher, expert in dealing with children.
Cook of Cáritas Diocesana and coordinator of the Minigourmet Salon of the Murcia Gastronómica annual congress and of the different Gastrotours that are celebrated throughout the year by different locations in the Region.
Present in numerous solidarity events such as Gastrotea.
Delia Torrano
Creator of the company El Obrador de Delia, which started its career in 2010 after winning the National Women Entrepreneur Award of the Círculo Olay Foundation.
Since then cooking workshops have been held, practical cooking workshops to enjoy, learn and relax, as well as training courses for companies, public bodies and associations to train different groups as assistants and kitchen assistants.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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