30 Sep 2010
Knowledge Festival from 6 to 11 October 2010
What do humans naturally eat? Certainly not cheese sandwiches because they didn't exist in prehistoric times. Is our body really adapted for ‘modern food’? And, what's breakfast good for? What does our future food look like: Cyber snacks? And how can you process food to make it taste good or to preserve it? These are just some of the questions from the Food4you Knowledge Festival taking place from 6 to 11 October. And, the festival isn’t just happening in Wageningen this year but in Ede and Barneveld as well.
The fourth edition of Food4you will offer adults and children plenty of opportunities to taste, to smell, to actively participate in, but especially the chance to learn about healthy and tasty food in a fun way. You can read about the whole programme on www.food4you.nl (Dutch).
Food4you 2010 will begin on 6 October with an informative breakfast for young people as well as for the mayors and aldermen from Ede, Barneveld and Wageningen in the travelling Breakfast Café on the Valleilijn (see attachment). After children have learned from a real professor from the Children’s University what prehistoric people ate, the opening symposium will begin in CineMec in Ede with stimulating lectures about preventing cancer and the difficulties of our modern lifestyle with its irrational and unwitting behaviour.
Ede and Barneveld
On Thursday, 7 October (‘The Day of the Debates’), and Friday, 8 October, the Breakfast Café train will roar through the Food Valley. In Ede, the Food Valley Conference 2010 will focus on the agri-food sector. Should the earnings model in the food sector be thrown out in difficult economic times? There’ll also be a debate in the Shuttelaar Community Cafe about the role of articulate citizens and Profs serving as experts in discussions on nutrition and health. In Ede, students, together with the “clear” and "guilty" conscience, will confront young people with their breakfast rituals or lack thereof. Why? Are they going to realise that eating breakfast is related to social (friendship), physical (weight, physical fitness) and mental health (concentration)? The Knowledge Square at the Sapfabriek (the Juice Factory) in Ede is especially for secondary school pupils and will revolve around the nutrition question of ‘How do you make it?'
The Food4you Caravan
The Food4you Caravan will wind its way through the Food Valley for three days. This ‘festival on wheels’ is going to pitch its tents in Ede on Thursday and in Barneveld on Friday and will descend on Wageningen on Saturday. Each location will organize local activities with a lot of consumer information and advice, from workshops and tastings to exhibitions, music and theatre.
The more-than-twenty-vehicle Caravan will let young and old cycle their own juice, enjoy the 'vegetable garden experience' and have a look in the food hospital (The Gelderse Vallei Hospital). On Friday, 8 October, the Food4you Caravan is rolling into Barneveld where the World Egg Days will be opened. Fireworks will conclude Friday’s events.
Public Day
On Saturday, 9 October, the Caravan will end its journey through the Food Valley with a Public Day in Wageningen. The more than 50 activities scheduled that day include not only children's theatre and tasting lessons for 4-12 years old, but also an extensive Food Market for rummagers and connoisseurs alike. The Public Day starts at 11:30 am with an exciting lecture What is …the Paleodiet? by Prof. Frits Muskiet from Groningen. He’s going to speak about humankind’s original eating and living habits (see attachment).
Like a time machine, the Multimedia Experience will show the course of our original 'primal food’ of game and fish, eggs, fruits and mushrooms to the yet-to-be-invented 'cyber snacks'. Be amazed at the many forms of food processing in the Knowledge & Practice Pavilion that benefit the taste and shelf life of food. Learn how the quality of ice cream changes when you bring it home from the supermarket. Discover the face you'll pull while watching someone eat something unpleasant. And, find out if orange juice tastes different when it comes out of a red or blue carton. And, you can’t disparage it…the four legume biscuit as tasty and healthy alternative to unhealthy and high-calorie treats. And, see more of the future in the Cyberdome like… are we going to be eating algae burgers, vega-beef or savoury lollipops made from insect meat in 2050?
Food Professional Day
On Monday, 11 October, chefs and food scientists will join each other for Professional Day in CineMec. Cooks from the hospitality industry, the health care industry and the food industry will learn about the use of regional products, energy-efficient methods to prepare food, children's eating preferences, wisdom from prehistoric times that we can still use in contemporary cooking and so much more.
The Food4you Knowledge Festival is an initiative of Wageningen UR (University and Research Centre) and Rijn IJssel Vocational School Wageningen with the cooperation of Organisatiebureau Wageningen.
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