The 26 children from the Estaing public school participated in the preparation of a vegetable soup, on the first day of “Taste Week“, thanks to the joint participation of volunteers from the media library and staff from the ‘school.
To do this, each child or adult brought a bunch of leeks, a bunch of carrots, a pumpkin, a squash, three potatoes or a few other vegetables which were all washed and peeled under the watchful eye of adults watching over them. to the grain and advising appropriately.
The whole day was spent discovering the joys of cooking and the multiple varieties of tastes, smells, colors and textures offered by the ingredients that Mother Nature deploys in the gardens. In the morning, it was in the entertainment room that the children were able to get active around the ten tables, each of which was intended for a different workshop. There was that of aromatic herbs to be named: parsley, sage, thyme, bay leaf, basil, mint… that of cereals or grain vegetables to be discovered by touch, blindfolded, that of candied textures whose identity had to be guessed by taste and others where peeling was practiced.
And while one group was busy digging a pumpkin around Christine, putting the seeds aside for a future seed, another was drawing the fruits and vegetables that we had chosen based on the letters of the alphabet, another finally alternated around Sylvie Delagnes, dietician, to listen attentively to what she said about the nutritional qualities of all these ingredients which would make up the soup that the children and adults would share together at midday.
The afternoon was devoted to continuing the workshops and, as soon as the youngest woke up from their nap, to visiting the restaurant “Aux Armes d’Estaing” where the cuisine was presented, but also, as long as we was and according to the wishes of the children, the rooms of the hotel where we dream of enjoying our breakfast. A busy day where the five senses were summoned around nutrition.
Children and adults appreciated the course and the originality of learning which combines pleasure and necessity by awakening curiosity on a daily basis.
