Food Twinning Italy-Ireland

By 3B-Scuola Media Fucini Istituto Omnicomprensivo S.Marcello Pistoiese-Italy

Our territory

Our school is in S. Marcello P.se, a lovely small town on the Pistoian mountain, not far from Pistoia-Florence, Pisa and Lucca and near the famous skiing resorts called Abetone and Cutigliano.

TubbercurryOur twinning project is with the school “Santa Attracta” in Tubbercurry in the County of Sligo...

● Tubbercurry,Sligo County, is a lovely town located at the foot of the Ox Mountain. There is a Roman Catholic Church and also ST. George's Episcopal Church. Tubbercurry was first mentioned in the Annals in the years 1397,and so celebrated its 600th anniversary last year. The name in Irish is “Tobar a 'choire”.Tobar means a 'well'.So it was place to get the drinking water. Nowadays Tubbercurry has a popolation of over 1,100 people. They run a ''music week'' festival each July.This has really grown in importance,and lovers of Irish music from all over world come to play and learn traditional Irish music. They have a very active drama group who call themselves the ''phoenix players'' they are usually involved in the western Ireland drama festival,held in the town each March

Aziende (Firms)

On our mountains there are lots of firms which produce food, very often organic food,

Such as meat, ham, cheese, chestnuts, berries and thereof products etc...

We have exchanged photos and descriptions of some typical products with the Irish people on whatsapp, in order to know which ones are their favourites. This histogram represents the results of their survey.

Survey on Italian food

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Vino chianti/Chianti wine 9

Grappa ginepro o mirtillo/ Juniper brandy/Blueberry liqueur

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Pasta/Maxi spaghetti 8

Ragù di cinghiale/Wild boar sauce 7,5

Marmellate di mirtillo o more/Blackberry or blueberry jam

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Crema di castagne/Chestnut purea 6,5

Biscotti di riso/Rice cookies 6,5

Funghi barattolo/Mushrooms in jar 6,5

Funghi secchi/Dried mushrooms 4

Farro/Emmer wheat 2

Top ten of Italian products

● 1 Chianti wine● 2 Juniper brandy( blueberry liqueur)● 3 Maxi spaghetti● 4 Wild boar sauce ● 5 BlackBerry \ blueberry jam ● 6 Chestnat purea cream ● 7 Rice cookies ● 8 Mushrooms in jar ● 9 Dried mushrooms ● 10 Emmer wheat

I PRIMI PRODOTTIthe First 5

Dexter Beef Produced on locally reared cattle bred on a strict grass diet . It is organic.

Nocknarea honey is a cold pressed honey coming from local beehives.

Coconut queen cakes from Local Bakery. These buns are very good at tea time and any time for a break snack.Tea “Brack”A Typical cake made of WHEAT flour, sugar,EGGS,vegetable oils, Sultanas Water, sugar,syrup,skimmed MILK, butter, flavourings, salt, raising agents (sodium acid, propionate), strong tea, cinnamon.ALLERGENS:see ingredients in Capitals.Murphi’s bakery Chocolate cake.A chocolate cake with vanilla custard. Delicious as a dessert.The White HugSome beer from white hug brewery. Irish, from Sligo co.

Our favourite Irish Products

SONDAGGIO/ Survey on Irish Products.

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Birra/Beer 9

Torta al cioccolato/chocolate cake 9

Tortine al cocco/coconut queen cakes 8,5

dolce per il te/Tea break buns 8

Burro/ Butter 8

Miele/ Honey 8

Sidro di mele/ Apple cider 7

Carne/Meat 6,5

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Here is a graphic which represents the results of our survey ( sondaggio ) on Irish food products.

●SCORE : 1 TO 8

The graphic above

Secondo sondaggio

FREQUENZA DI ACQUISTO :

● AL GIORNO● ALLA SETTIMANA● AL MESE

● The survey has been done on three groups of age ,men and women. In the graphic below we represent only the results of the survey on a sample product : “beer”.

GRAFICO SONDAGGIO SU BIRRA

Birra 20/40 anni ( uomini/donne)

Birra 40/60 anni (uomini/donne)

Birra60/80 anni (uomini/donne)

Birra 20/40 anni ( uomini/donne) 37,3%

Birra 40/60 anni (uomini/donne) 33,1%

Birra 60/80 anni ( uomini/donne) 29,6%

The Food Distribution Chain by “COOP” Supermarkets :

Procedures for Provisioning and Validation of products are

Represented in the Graphic below.

Products Control

Supplier Fill out the questionnaire on company characteristics and produces the necessary documentation.

Fill out the questionnaire on company characteristics and produces the necessary documentation.

You receive the questionnaire \ list products \ datasheets \ labels.

You receive the questionnaire \ list products \ datasheets \ labels.

It provides for inspection, products and processes, audit analysis.

It provides for inspection, products and processes, audit analysis.

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Currency documentation.Currency documentation.

Within 3 months

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professional (if necessary)

It sends the supplier a questionnaire to be filled with the list to produce documents (labels, ...) with the application for inclusion in vendor with a product list to qualify - waiting the return of the material.

Diagram foraccreditation

Once the phase of accreditation whenever there is non-compliance

provider accreditation (with written report)

provider accreditation (with written report)

laboratory (if necessary)

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Validate the suppliers or suppliers proposed by the associates

Prepares a qualifying questionnaire for suppliers with a supporting documentation list

By COOP supermarket

“COOP”

Competenze acquisite.What we have learnt.

CONCLUSIONI:

1)Descrizioni in lingua Inglese

a) descrivere cibi con vocaboli specifici

b) descrivere luoghi

c) uso di un lessico arricchito

2) Metodologie per indagini di mercato.

3) Rappresentazioni grafiche dei risultati di un’indagine.

4) Conoscenza della filiera e delle procedure per la sicurezza e la

Qualità, adottate dalla grande distribuzione - nel caso specifico

dai supermercati COOP.

5) Uso del programma POWER POINT.

Docenti coinvolti.Our teachers.

Nella realizzazione del progetto “Food Twinning” gli studenti della 3^ B

sono stati guidati dalle Docenti :

AMATI MARCELLA ( Lettere )

MARLETTA CARMELA ( Lingua Inglese )

MANNORI SIMONA ( Matematica )

PERUZZI MICHELA ( Tecnologia – TIC )

Il progetto si è concluso con un viaggio d’istruzione a Tubbercurry co. Sligo- EIRE

con visita alla “Santa Attracta’s Community school” e incontro con gli studenti Irlandesi coinvolti nel progetto.