KOCHI
: In order to promote cooking among school students, Ernakulam Vidyarangam
Kalasahityavedi
has launched a programme called Navarivu. Through the programme they have made an hour-long documentary in which students are seen preparing various food items and explaining their recipes briefly. The documentary was launched on World Food Day (October 16) and is being shared across the social media.
The documentary features the making and recipes of around 20 food items, mostly traditional dishes that are not so popular among the new generation. These include tapioca-fish curry, pumpkin leaf thoran, taro leaf curry, ilayada, pumpkin erisserry, puliyinchi, Coleus barbatus (panikoorka) baji, beef kondattam, mung bean dosa, jackfruit ada, drumstick-ricewater curry, hibiscus tea, etc. Besides there are dishes like prawns biriyani, karimeen curry, onion thoran, sweet boli and bittergourd thoran. Kozhukkata, mango curry and cutlet too are prepared by the students.
Ernakulam Vidyarangam Kalasahityavedi coordinator
Simla Kasim
said that though several students have made the dishes and sent the videos they had to choose from them as they had to restrict the documentary’s duration. The videos sent by around 20 students from 14 subdistricts in Ernakulam were used for the documentary.
“The programme was aimed at keeping the students engaged at home as the schools are yet to reopen. The Kalasahityavedi has been doing monthly activities involving children. Students of Classes II to X have taken part in Navarivu. We decided to choose traditional dishes as most people these days don’t know many of old dishes and their recipes,” said Kasim, who directed the documentary.
Students chose the dishes with the help of their parents and grandparents. They first learned to make the dish with their help and later cooked it formally for the videos. Some have even made the videos look like a professional cookery show donning the chef ’s costumes. Each student’s presentation is up to four minutes duration.
Finance minister K N Balagopal, food and civil supplies minister G R Anil, Kerala folklore academy chairman C J Kuttappan, poet
Murukan Kattakada
and celebrity chef
Suresh Pillai are among the ones who congratulated the students and the Kalasahityavedi for the initiative.
The technical support for the documentary was given by
P V Eldose
, Bindu P D and
Mariya Gorotty
, who are members of the Kalasahityavedi. The editing was done by R Harikrishnan.
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