The Education Department of Greece is holding a cooking competition for children of Greek background from all over the world. All primary and high school students can compete from anywhere in the world. Students will be assessed in four categories.
1. Traditional recipe
Students are to cook a traditional recipe. In their submission, they are to discuss where the recipe came from, the tradition behind it and other traditional foods of the area from which their dish originated. The recipes should be either a main, entree, salad, a traditional festive food, a fasting food, breakfast or a dessert.
2. Paint a picture
The painting that is to be created has to have the theme of traditional Greek Mediterranean cuisine, local produce and how it connects with our health, well-being and culture.
3. Design a poster
The theme for the poster is the promotion of Mediterranean cuisine, local produce and how it connects with our health, well-being and culture.
4. Five minute digital video
The theme for the video is the promotion of Mediterranean cuisine, local produce and how it connects with our health, well-being and culture.
The aim of the competition is to encourage students and teachers to research Greek recipes from different regions, to understand how food is produced and look into the local Greek agricultural economy and the development of the food.
Students, through this competition, are to go on a journey through food, and research local traditions and also how these traditions form part of the Greek tradition of food.
This competition will also enhance students’ skills in terms of how Greek culture embodies traditional cooking. It will promote Greek Mediterranean cuisine and raise awareness to change eating habits as the issue of child obesity is becoming more and more prevalent.
To be eligible, children need to be a student of primary and secondary schools in Greece, and in Greek schools of the Diaspora. Submissions should be either a group / team submission or individual. All participants will receive a certificate of acknowledgement for taking part in the competition They will be judged by a five member team who are coming from the areas of education, cinema, healthy living and chefs.
The shortlist will consist of 20 recipes – 10 from primary and 10 from high schools – and 20 paintings – 10 from primary and ten from high schools. The short-listed recipes will be included in a school diary to be printed in 2012. Poster and video entries must be original. Ten posters and 10 videos – five from primary and five from high schools – will be short-listed.
Entries will be judged on how the students chose their recipes and how rare they are and how they connect them with local produce and traditional Greek methods.
With the poster, children are free to chose any colours and they can use electronic material, collages, sketches – they have the creative freedom to do one or all of these methods.
Photographs used must be original and not have any copyright.
All the submissions will be uploaded to the site sxolika magiremata www.i-create.gr. To submit your pieces visit this website and complete the form. Deadline for submissions is May 5.