sun - wonderful first day, incredible breakfast. @ McPlanet i really liked the audience (so full, sooooo many young people!!! it would never be like that in italy, on a sunday morning!!!), I really appreciate the speaker rappresenting the industrial interstes, because he was there facing quite a taugh task (even if he tended to answer a the question saying nothing, like "this is a very complex issue, this is a very diverse topic, this is not so clear bla bla bla). I liked Maximo Torero instead because I think he was really balanced and objective, I liked the woman leading the panel because she wanted confrontation and always repeated a question when it was not answered. I think at the end we didn't end up with anything relevant, but I also think it is kind of normal when you approach such vaste issue. very nice lunch at the bio restaurant (but do you really think is bio?), thanks jens fr the walk and talk thru the house and garden. fantastic dinner (thanks Elle for today and all the days to come!), very good movie (Foods inc.)
sunday diary of Tiziana
Apr 25
sat - interesting place, nice welcome, wonderful dinner, funny way to get to know e.o. great privacy for me and luca (thank you!)
PIZZOCCHERI recepie
Apr 25
by the way, my recepie (everybody should leave the recepie presented, don't you think it would be nice?): PIZZOCCHERI: Buckwheat flour 200 g. 100 g white flour. 4 medium sized potatoes cabbage g.500 (or spinach or chard) butter g.50 pamesan g. 200 sage Low-fat cheese g.300 (fontina from valtellina) Salt and pepper to taste garlic Mix together the two kinds of flour, add salt and mix by combining as much water as is sufficient to obtain a firm dough and smooth. With a rolling pin, roll out the dough, not too thin, then cut into strips about an inch wide and no more, and about 4 inches long. Put a saucepan of salted water, adding the potatoes peeled and chopped cabbage leaves cut into thin strips. When the potatoes are cooked, discard the water and drain the pasta along with vegetables when it is cooked al dente. Spread pizzoccheri in layers, sprinkling each layer with plenty of cheese from Valtellina and parmesan cheese thinly sliced and melted butter with garlic and sage. Season with freshly ground pepper before serving.
Monday summary by Tiziana
Apr 25
mon - nutrition expert talk...mmm... I didn't really find the expert very expert, nor the translator. I think that everybody wanted to talk and know more about all the questions that arised. I love the organizational team: u guys are so nice and kind and democratic. The program is fantastic and smooth, I really do not understand what are people always so tired about. 1st cooking night: I don't think it went that good. We were late, we didn't know the oven was so tricky and had to throw away half of the cake, Lili accidentaly throw away the zucchini that Anna had cut for her gluten free dish, and I made a huge mistake. I separeted a part of my "pizzoccheri" to make it vegan, I used the correct vegan butter for it, but when it came to substitute the cheese with the yeast flakes, I got confused and used normal cheese instead! I felt sooooo stupid and sooooo sorry: I only realized it when I proudly showed to Tanja her vegan pizzoccheri... she really looked disappointed, I don't know if it was only because she really wanted to taste it, or also because it is maybe common that vegans get into these kind of errors by the cooks... and it has to bother I guess... verena was nice, she was caressing me and repeating "don't worry, it happens..." ja ja ja, I found it very sweet. Still, the soup hasn't been finished yet.... the movie: Earthlings was too violent, but interesting anyway. It was just 3 of us resisting until the end. I think the process of choice should be a little faster. When there is a proposal, if no one disagree, the movie should be just shown, without asking everybody which movie he/she preferes of the whole list: you don't actually gets to a consensus like that. Maybe Jens could suggest a couple of titles and people should vote.
US Food Scandals I + II
Apr 25
The U.S. Agriculture Department confirmed on Tuesday that it found a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, the nation’s fourth, in a dairy cow in central California.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/24/us-usa-madcow-instantview-idUSBRE83N17D20120424
And the pink slime:
This expansive graph by Online Education tells you all you need to know about bottled water, as you scroll from top to bottom. Now excuse me while I try to hide my bottle of water.
Tip from Tanja Eskola
Tomorrow is traveling day!
Apr 20
Please don forget to keep your tickets and boarding-cards. We need them for the funding-report. Have a good trip and see you all soon 
Jens
We changed the program for sunday morning. We will visite a very interesting debate at the McPlanet-congress at technical university:
Is Sustainable Agriculture Able to Nourish 9 Billion People?
The main panel on agriculture addresses the future of food security. The key problem seems
to be that if agriculture is not profitable, it doesn’t produce enough – if agriculture is
profitable, pressure on the ecosystems is increasing. Furthermore, climate change is
expected to have a negative impact on agricultural productivity in many areas of the world.
On the other hand, climate protection through a green energy revolution already contributes
to a raising demand for biomass and an increased competition for land use.
The panel seeks to discuss the following questions: How can the known risks and negative
environmental and social impacts of industrial agriculture be avoided? How can up to 9 billion
people be nourished with healthy food, without having to choose between feeding the world
and protecting the planet’s ecosystems? What will be the impact of a decreasing amount of
land available for food production? Is small-scale agriculture a resilient and feasible vision for
the 21st century?
Panelists: Urs Niggli (Suisse Research Institute for Organic Agriculture FiBL), *Manfred
Zeller (University Hohenheim) and *Mariann Bassey (FOE). Moderation: Christine Chemnitz
(Heinrich-Böll-Foundation)
English movie list
Apr 19
Here is the english Movie-list now for download…
Filmlist_Sustainable_Food_v2.0.engl
and in pdf-format:
Some days to takeoff :-))
Apr 18
Hello everybody! We`re looking forward to the sustainable food - workshop with you. Everyone who did not choose a topic for your research-works in advance should do this now and inform us, what it is. If you wan't to give the others some informations in advance you can write them on the blogside or at the facebook-side or sent them via email to us. Here are some informations for your preparations and arrival: Please bring with you: * If you have: Interesting texts or films about our theme stainability and nutrition. * Your notebook-computer if you want to. It's usefull for writing diarys and research. * Rain clothes (we don't hope so ... but it's sometimes raining in April in Berlin) * Good shoes - we will be out in the city as well