Master classes in Far Eastern cuisine in Vladivostok schools

Master classes on Far Eastern cuisine in Vladivostok schools

Master classes are held in coordination with the school date and time

d. Vladivostok

The project is about the transfer of knowledge, heart-to-heart conversations, the secrets of the profession, acquaintance with the Far Eastern cuisine and the possibilities of traveling around the edge.

About the project

During the 2023-2024 academic year, an interesting and unique gastronomic project began to be implemented in Vladivostok schools. Gastronomy is not only about food, sitting down and eating. It is also an opportunity to learn about traditions and culture, because Primorye is a multinational region.

The project "shot"! Chefs got the opportunity to communicate with a new audience that is unusual for them, share their experience, talk about their profession. Unlike regular restaurant visitors, the children are open to dialogue on various topics, and this makes the communication even more interesting. During gastronomic lessons, schoolchildren change the environment, do something with their own hands not for the sake of grades, but for pleasure. Parents of schoolchildren note the manifestation of a respectful attitude towards products, interest in the work of the catering industry and the desire to implement the acquired knowledge at home: someone cooks at home on their own, and someone got carried away with table setting. Teachers emphasize the well-established career guidance focus of such classes, changes in the behavior of the children - everyone creates together: from excellent students to C students, from fidgets to indifferent ones.

It is very important that the age of the children is taken into account when conducting gastronomic lessons. Second-graders cook simpler dishes, for example, zavertony. Senior students create khinkali with Far Eastern scallop and rolls, try to make dumplings with pollock.

During each lesson, the children open up from a new side. It turns out that learning to cook something is cool, and it is not necessarily done by girls (and the cooks who set the tone during these classes are young, fashionable, stylish guys who have already made a name for themselves in gastronomy).

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At the end of each lesson, the children receive a magazine called “Wonders of Primorye,” a gastronomic guide, and a tourist map of the region, published by the Primorsky Territory Tourist Information Center (Visit Primorye), as a gift. Looking at the magazines, the children often ask: “Where is this?” Many of them want to start making plans for the holidays with their parents, visit museums they never even knew about, and go to new, as yet unexplored places in Primorye.

In addition to the “tasty” part of the lessons, the program is filled with a cultural component: specialists from museums and representatives of city tour companies are invited to the gastronomic lessons, who introduce the students to the history of the formation and development of Primorye, and interesting places in the region for travel and recreation. The following take part in such lessons: V.K. Arsenyeva, tour operator "Vostok Intour", VVGU (MIOST), College of Technology and Service and School of Gastronomy.

Statistics of the project

In total, more than 30 gastronomic master classes were held from December 2023 to early February 2024, with more than 1,500 schoolchildren taking part in them. It is too early to put an end to gastronomic lessons. Master classes are currently being held for schoolchildren of the 2024-2025 academic year. The desire to repeat, expand and improve is not only among the organizers. Both schoolchildren and teachers are interested in such lessons. Moreover, some schools in the Far Eastern capital include such master classes in the work plan of summer school camps.

"About 70 thousand people viewed the information about holding gastronomic lessons in Vladivostok schools in the Visit Primorye Nelegram channel. This is another confirmation that the project "shot". It turned out to be very multifaceted: transfer of knowledge, heart-to-heart talks, secrets of the profession, acquaintance with Far Eastern cuisine and opportunities for traveling around the region. The children's audience is receptive to information. And we are sure that soon we will get new travelers, tourism fans, future representatives of the hospitality industry. And the gastronomic lessons project will continue," noted Olga Gurevich, Director of the Primorsky Territory Tourist Information Center.

How to become a member of the project?

If you want a gastronomic master class to be held at your educational institution, you can contact us by phone at +7 (423) 240 71 21, by email at info@visit-primorye.ru or write to our telegram channel Visit Primorye.

The project is organized by the Primorsky Krai Tourist Information Center (Visit Primorye), the Primorsky Krai Ministry of Tourism and the Vladivostok Municipal Educational Institutions Department.21com>>>>