SwitchUp TV’s Ambassadors of Change Project!

In conjunction with Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Day on May 17^th 2013, Switchup.TV, Star Publications (M) Bhd. worked with students from School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts (SHTCA), KDU UC to explore traditional cooking skills and optimising food resources.

Students building the clay stove

The Food Revolution Day aimed to raise awareness about the importance of good food and better food education for everyone and this project fits in with the objective. Six (6) students from the Diploma in Culinary Arts module (Chef7) took up the challenge to participate in the project which took place at 8 Acres Homestay resort in Bentong, Pahang from Friday, 10^th – 12^th May 2013. The students learnt how to build a stove from bricks and clay from a nearby fish pond. 

They also harvested vegetables, trawled for fish, caught and slaughtered a duck and chicken. They cooked the duck and chicken in a pit oven and also made sourdough bread from scratch with naturally grown starter.

Food cooked with pit oven

At the end of the stay the students came away with invaluable experiential learning on how to use local food resources to prepare meals and alternative cooking methods which minimizes the carbon footprint.

This is the clay stove build by the students!

From left: Ayden Ng Wei Jie, Ben Hee Choon Keat, Mohd. Nazrul Bin Othman, Purusorthaman a/l  G.Bubalan, Jocelyn Hong Jia Mei and Shirlene Si Yen Ling.                      

 

The project was subsidised by The Star whilst SHTCA sponsored the six students who participated in the programme.  The project is part of a series of workshop under the Ambassadors of Change programme.