A bit about my background. Chef and hospitality training for 3 years in England; I was very fortunate to go to the 2nd best training site [at that time] in the UK, and worked with some inspired people, 2 of which authored the texts used for training for over 20 years. Lots of work opportunities around the UK both during term time and in holiday breaks. Then to Marks and Spencer Ltd, then the byword in corporate training, to enter Catering Management and take on various small and large sites, that meant small and large stores, ending up at the No 2 store at that time, and involved in corporate catering as well as industrial and store management. On emigration to NZ I worked in the hospo industry for while and then entered tertiary education designing, teaching, assessing and moderating chefing, front of house and other things. Onto national training advisor for the industry and then to a new city and parent hood and combining similar work with raising kids. More recently I have set up the Modern Apprenticeship scheme and Adult Community Education scheme in my city for my then employer. As part of my new business I will provide work place assessment.
My thoughts on the above Project. I understand this project is in its infancy and that is such a good time to get involved. You may have read media coverage of the increase in interest of food grown and cooked locally, but informed by international nutritional knowledge. We are all aware of water scarcity and the regular stress large communities are put under by natural disasters. Whilst this project can deal with all this I think it would be worth while discussing linking organiponica based community garden development with the use of produce in various recipes. Perhaps down the line incorporating the keeping of goats and making products from their milk, chickens and their eggs etc. We would need to decide on a goal and plan towards it, then the tools we would use to facilitate it, film clips, images, visiting specialists. Before we start I would like to see who else would like to be involved and how we could network out. I will tap my chef colleagues for their support and may find one or two of altruistic persuasion, cross fingers. What do you think? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
