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Our Cookathon competition had a global impact with people from across four continents joining together to cook on the same day, earlier this year.
On the day of the Cookathon, more than 700 people from a village in Zambia joined together to cook a meal using charcoal braziers. They had been told about the Let's Get Cooking BIG Cookathon by their link school, Hassell Primary School, in Newcastle, and decided to join in with the culinary celebrations from more than 5,000 miles away.
Emmanuel Mukuka of Chiti Community School in Lusaka, Zambia said "We had 745 people taking part, including children in our area who are not learners at our school. We asked people to bring their own pots and braziers and those who didn’t have one shared with their friends. We bought potatoes, carrots, green beans, pumpkin leaves, onions, tomatoes, stock and oil to make a dish called Lobby and Dumplings. We learnt this kind of dish from our friend Nicky of Hassell Primary School, in Newcastle, and we agreed to prepare the same type of food on the same day. It was a wonderful experience, which is rarely done in our country, with everyone eating and sharing a meal together.”
And they weren’t the only ones! Rydens Secondary School, in Surrey, had 1,000 people taking part in their Cookathon event, including participants in the USA, France, South Africa and Australia. One pupil who cooked Tasty Tomato Pasta whilst on holiday in Florida emailed in a photo. Former food teachers who had returned to their home nations cooked with their students abroad, whilst one South African staff member persuaded members of her family to cook the pasta dish on the day.
