Let's Cook Local 26th February 2013

Let's Cook Local proved to be another mouth - waterin exercise for all those who took part.
Funded by the National Lottery and sponsored by Love Food, Change 4 Life, Sure Start, Sustain & the Women's Institute.


Let's Cook Local is organised and run by Barbara Roby of the Staunton Harold Women's Institute. The programme is now in it's 3rd year.
Barbara and her fellow WI helpers have run the 'Let's Cook Local' at Scallywags Pre School Nursery who kindly offer their premises free of charge for the programme.

Barbara has worked as the Nursery Chef at Scallywags for the past 9 years.
The participants  are often mothers of the children who attend Scallywags and also young workers from the Scallywags team of staff.

    

    

Preparation of the Lasagne

Summary:

I received a call to attend this event on the morning of the event itself and was given very little information about it.

 I arrived around 7.15pm and introduced myself to the event organiser, Barbara Roby.

I was a little bit nervous about attending this event, and found Scallywags classroom difficult to locate, however,  I spent some time chatting to the girls and took some test shots to establish the correct exposure and lighting.

There was plenty of room to work in but as it was a nursery classroom the walls and ceiling were adorned with paintings and craft work which is quite distracting. 

I took various images of the girls preparing and cooking the food, some staged and some natural

Candid shots of preparation of the scones..

Scone  Making

Scones coming out of the oven.

The participants felt the course gives them the confidence to try new recipes/learn to cook.

They all receive a cookery book and apron at the start of the course and learn a variety of recipes from chocolate brownies to vegetable lasagne. 

The course culminates with cooking a three course meal which they share together on the last night.

On completion of the course the ladies receive a certificate.

 For the final image I got the girls to stand in the kitchen area with their food and I felt this created a good composition.

I spent some time ensuring I took done some background information to enable me to write the editorial to go with the images, and drew a face map of the final image to ensure I got the names attached to the correct people.

I spent around 75 minutes at the event and then downloaded and chose 12 images, uploading these to photoshop where I adjusted the levels and sized the images to A5 300dpi. I also renamed the images with the year, month, title, image no, my reference.

Wrote the editorial and emailed this and uploaded the images to dropbox.

debraburgess-lim LRPS