Tasty fare at Youthtrain’s international food event
A MOUTH-watering variety of tasty dishes were cooked and consumed when Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board’s Adult Literacy Service joined with Youthtrain Wexford to host an international cookery demonstration for Adult Learner Week.
Students of a WWETB English language course used the state-of-the-art kitchen in Youthtrain at Whitemill Industrial Estate to demonstrate their culinary and lingual skills.
Each of the students prepared a dish in front of an invited audience to represent the traditional cooking of their home country, and accompanied it with a written recipe and an explanation of the food’s cultural importance in their native cuisine. The countries represented included Egypt, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Thailand, Hungary, Belarus and Bangladesh.
Youthtrain students from Ireland and slovakia formed an inter-cultural learning partnership at the event, supplying local knowledge and assisting their visiting colleagues in using the facility to best effect.
The celebration of international cooking was designed by WWETB English language tutor Aniko Lonergan to provide a formal but entertaining assessment opportunity for her students. The event was filmed and will be used for an end of course assessment in June.
The language students taking part were Angela Bulavinets, Sylwia Graczyk, Amany Abdelattif Hamed, Lamiaa Hegab, Doaa Ibrahim, Judith Pap, Elisabeta Tic, Sutisa Yaitoeng, Nasrul Syed and Olga Gavrilova.
The Adult Literacy Service would like to thank the Youthtrain staff for the great welcome they received, especially Niamh and Paul O Brien.
The international students were supported by Youthtrain culinary skills students Monika, Leah, Mark and Shauna.