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In Normandy, a truck travels the roads, from school to school, to meet young Normans. On board, a chef and local products for a traveling cooking class.
A kitchen in the courtyard of the school of Trouville-sur-Mer (Calvados) for a brigade as high as three apples. To make a Normandy-style croque-monsieur, chef Patrick Coignard needs good ingredients and a hint of education. To try to convince children to eat better, he tries unusual combinations: cheese and apple. “There is camembert, it’s salty and the apple is sweet, but it makes you want to”launches Elina, cook for a day.
Transmit the taste of good things
“You have to surprise them a bit. They are quite sweet children and it is an association that works very well. You should know that in food, eight times out of ten we consume salty sweets without knowing it”, said the chief. The mobile kitchen, supported by the association Les insatiables, reaches out to young Normans to pass on a taste for good things. Teaching about taste in the service of health, essential learning when you know that 20% of Normans suffer from obesity.
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