Vibrant ingredients, shared experience, enticing food
Apr 27th, 2009
These pictures say a lot about the work Birgit has done with SIFA Fireside, sharing her passion for great food with disadvantaged people.
SIFA offers new directions to people on low incomes at the margins of the community. In that situation, enjoying your food and healthy eating are both likely to cheer you up and help you get back on your feet. But when you’re short of money it’s easy to assume you can’t afford good, enjoyable food. Birgit’s Five-a-day-on-a-budget “training” isn’t some wartime rationing propaganda poster: it’s about good company and good rapport as well as good food.
At the planning stage, Birgit (right) discusses food with one of the course participants.
Springing into action changes the energy level (below)
Working alongside an accomplished cook, making the most of low-cost ingredients, can be inspiring (below)
Cooking is a natural group activity, and helps counter the mental isolation of people who’ve been pushed to the edge (below).
Getting into preparing food is enjoyable: it gets you moving, talking, thinking, and stimulates your senses (below).
A relaxed atmosphere and an easy rapport are features of Birgit’s work (below).
Enjoying food together is particularly pleasant after the experience of creating something new (below).
Altogether, a great example of growing skills, feeding confidence…
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