Cooking history is a project about recovering traditional recipes, using season products, produced localy and ecologicaly. In this project a young person cook with an older person, promoting generational exchange.
This project is about culture, youth, learning, promote volunteering, sharing and being ecologicaly awarned. The resoult of the project are, 12 videos, one per each month of the year (you can find them on Youtube with more than 10.000 views), and a recipes book.
Local
Spain
The locality name is Castelló and is located on La Ribera Alta an area of València province.
Mainly rural
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
Yes
European Solidarity Corps
No
Yes
2022-12-31
As a representative of an organisation
Name of the organisation(s): Associació Cultural Tabalà Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation First name of representative: Ramón Miguel Last name of representative: Navalón Peris Gender: Male Nationality: Spain Function: President Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Pl/ L'Esglesia n10 Town: Castelló Postal code: 46270 Country: Spain Direct Tel:+34 647 57 02 20 E-mail:ltraymi@gmail.com Website:https://associaciotabala.com/
Cooking the history is a project that talks about memory, culture, customs. A project that promotes intergenerationality, participation, sustainability, synergies between entities and many other things.
The project tries to make 12 recipes of traditional cuisine, one for each month of the year, each time a dish is made with seasonal products. Every month a young person with an elderly relative or friend cooks a traditional dish that used to be eaten at that time of the year. This recipe is recorded on video and published on networks and in the local press, and at the end of the project a book of recipes is published, where these are collected.
In order to carry out the project, the participation of several entities has been counted on, such as: Vora riu, which produces organic, seasonal vegetables and recovers indigenous seeds and which have given us the raw material for the recipes, Olis Promesa, which they make organic oil with native varieties and who have given us the oil to make each recipe, they have collaborated with the Retired Association, some of its members are the ones who made the recipes. These are some of the local entities that have participated in the project.
Cooking History have been a relevant project for town, it have a big impact on society, people ask about it and want to participate, is not only a cultural event, but also an element to dinamize society, an element to make people participate and ask, and talk about lives in the past, and a way of understanding world.
Because all this, this is a project that have work and we consider it an exemple of good practices and dinamizing society in many fields and topics.
History
Cooking
intergenerationality
Sustainability
Heritage
After extensive analysis we apply different practices to improve activities: Environment - Purchase of food: As far as possible all the food we buy is a product of proximity, km0 and ecological in businesses and shops in the town; (example our vegetables producer is http://vorariucastello.es/ an ecological agriculture project where we also collaborate in different initiatives), in this way we try to contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions and environmental impact. Purchase of material: As far as possible all products that We buy (glasses, cutlery, paper, etc.) they are local, recycled material, biodegradable and/or reusable. We don't use plastics. Activities: During all the activities we put all the means (separated garbage, fair use of products, etc) to apply the 5 r's of recycling. Reject, reduce, reuse, recycle and reincorporate.
Recipe book: Even if it means a higher cost, the copies of the book are made of recycled paper.
Accessibility: All activities carried out in environments without barriers for learning and participation.
Coordination is Social Services, specifically with the department of the children's program and with the Council Municipal School to promote their participation in the different activities. Municipal Occupational Center the Castellet (for people with mental disabilities): Participants and beneficiaries of some of the Tabalà projects. One of the recipes is did with them the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, on December 3. Digitization: Book digital Apart from the physical book, there is a digital book that is posted on our website for your reference download Video recipes: All recipes are recorded by us, posted on networks and on our website. The workshop is related to cooking and the creation of a typical dish, with a total of 24 participants.
The project has been a success, aesthetically much care has been taken, from the logo, the (original) header song, the image of the videos, as well as that of the book, all the details are taken care of and well thought out.
On a cultural level, as we have already mentioned, the objectives were clear, to recover tradition, a series of recipes but also a way of life, not to let a way of life that existed until not so long ago fall into oblivion.
These objectives have been greatly exceeded, since the part that has contributed the most to both the creators of the project and the participants has been the generational exchange, culturally it has contributed a lot, young people have learned, while older people ( that has also learned from young people), them has felt reconnected with the modern world and a series of realities that they no longer felt as their own.
On an emotional level, the experience has been very enriching, the objectives have also been exceeded in this case, the exchange between the different entities and people has enriched the social fabric of the town, the presentation of the recipe book attended by all participants and after which a fellowship meal is made is a clear example, people come with enthusiasm.
The methods we have used to obtain these results are nothing more than empathy, training in different areas and above all having people who are very interested and assertive, communicating with the participants at all times open to listening to their suggestions, etc. .
One of the results that has surprised us the most has been the good acceptance not only by the people, but also that the Valencian public television was interested in the project and they came to interview us about it, etc.
As we have previously commented, the project is an example of inclusion, on the one hand, we have worked side by side with older people whom we have somehow reconnected with society.
For these people, the project has been an illusion, a reason for joy, an excuse to spend time with loved ones, to feel important in society.
On the other hand, we have carried out one of the activities with the El Castellet Municipal Occupational Center, a center for people with intellectual functional diversity. In this center people with disabilities work making products with recycled products, so it was related to the objectives of our project. Working with the users of the center is a source of joy for integration and citizen participation.
We have also collaborated with the association of housewives and the association of retirees, making these organizations part of the synergies that have been created during the project.
Of course, participating in the project was completely free, we have included people of all social statuses and there have been no barriers to carrying out the activities.
Participation has been open to all people, and even though they have been invited to participate through the different participating entities, it has been possible to sign up to participate whoever wanted to, a good example of this is the variety of profiles of the participants.
In this sense, we believe that the project is an example of good practices and integration.
First of all, we have fostered the intergenerational relationship between different ages and the collaboration and cooperation between the entities of the town to contribute to a common project: the
publication of a book and web of cooking recipes, thus we promote a change protecting local culinary traditions as part of our history, we will also favor a change in the cooking and eating habits of young people while teaching them the customs that are being lost .
The majority of associations in our town, such as the Housewives, Association of Retirees and Pensioners, the School for Adults, the Town Hall, schools, the Municipal Occupational Center, etc. They have been involved in all
activities that we carried out during the initiative, both in the realization, participation in the activities and in the dissemination of them among the members who are part of these entities, their advice, experiences and memories have also been useful to us, for the realization of the book about recipes and the website.
The community benefits from the different activities that we carry out during the project, the feeling of belonging and identity, in addition to having at hand a book and website of the town's recipes that indirectly also benefits them in their "digital training", since We use all social networks
and platform possible to promote the project. With all this we create a community that is more supportive, participatory and aware of traditional and popular culture and the environment. The project not only benefits us who have thought and executed it, but also the groups that will also participate in the project.
In short, we think that this project is very beneficial to our community. And it can be for other communities as well, especially those that have a lot of associative life.
Our partners were committed at all levels of the project, even though they were not drafting it, they took part in the design, and in the changes that arose when executing it.
All our partners have been local entities, even though we have had the financial support of the European Solidarity Corps at a European level.
The level of commitment of our stakeholders has been very high, active participation both physically and conceptually.
They have looked for some participants, they have donated their products, they have helped us in the diffusion, etc. It has been a project with a high degree of participation and commitment.
Their role has been very important, since it has helped us demonstrate that synergies and participation enrich the projects and have reinforced the values that we wanted to transmit.
During the project we have dealt with different fields of knowledge, we have talked about gastronomy, traditions, the recovery of oral memory, a lifestyle, ecology, health, sustainability, relationships between young people and older people, etc. .
Many are the issues that have been covered in the project, we have learned about scheduling, image, how a shoot is planned and carried out, an endless number of things. But one of the most remarkable has been the interaction with other entities, and how to create alliances between very different organizations and people.
The people from the different entities interacted with great respect and were always eager to learn and collaborate, thus ensuring that the results were optimal.
The people who shot the videos, from different generations, acted with an open mind, assertiveness, empathy and a great desire to learn.
Respect and mutual trust have been the values that have united the group and have made everything work in a simple and autonomous way.
As we have already mentioned, the project has had a general impact on all of society, not only at a local level, but also at a regional and regional level, even though to our surprise the videos have been viewed from all over the world.
The impact is not summarized in the interaction of the participants and in the visible result, but rather it reaches the whole society. In many ways, both through the videos that everyone can enjoy, and indirectly at a social level, since the project has quantitatively and qualitatively enriched the local associative fabric, serving as an example to other towns, among other things.
The value and impact of Cooking History is remarkable in many aspects: inclusion, the values it promotes such as participation, intergenerationality, ecology, a healthy and sustainable way of life, memory, respect, etc.
All this impact falls on the entire town, between different generations.
The project is innovative in many aspects from intergenerationality, treating historical and oral memory from the kitchen, treating the kitchen as an integration tool.
The way in which the entities have been related is innovative, treating history as a tool for sustainability and ecology.
The project is very innovative, the use of technologies and social networks as a tool for the dissemination of the elderly, that they learn their use through this project, etc.
The focus of the project has been from the beginning the participation, the interaction of various people and entities, we have used methods of dynamization and mediation.
We set up an external mediation group before we started, where each entity proposed a non-member person to be part of the group, so that in the event of a dispute these people could mediate, luckily it has not been necessary to use this mediation group.
In addition, we have held meetings after each phase where the participants could give their opinion regarding the results and the process, in each of these sessions we made an anonymous suggestion and complaints box available to people, in which we only found good comments.
We can say that the methodology used has paid off and that on many occasions methods have been devised that have not been used, since everything has gone very well the first time.
We firmly believe that all aspects of the project can be replicated, especially the participation system and the concept of intergenerationality.
Obviously if the project is carried out elsewhere, the resulting recipes will be different, since that is partly the originality of the project, which tries to recover native recipes.
But if the same values should be applied, sustainability, environmentalism, historical recovery.
We believe that the project can work anywhere, since the disappearance of traditions, gastronomy and the use of seasonal products and km0 is a global reality, this project helps to alleviate the effect of globalization and modernity, through of social networks and technology that today is what reaches everyone, especially the youngest.
Acting locally we make changes in the local people, in the way they understand the world, the economy and food, which will change their lives, but also that of all those who view the videos, which are thousands of people.
As we have commented, the videos have thousands of views from around the world, so we believe that the global impact is evident.
We help people understand the world in a different way, that they try to be coherent in the way they consume, cook and eat.
