Food for Thought

Newsletter #2 – December 2010

New pages on our website

The website has been updated and the new layout is beautiful: http://www.foodforthought-
project.com/
You can find a thorough account of our meetings and other activities in Izmir. Just follow
these instructions: Project activities → Coordinator meetings → Turkey.
You can also find pages about Norway and Turkey. To read them, visit the project partners
section. You too can publish some information about your countries and schools. Please
send documents to Turkey!
The Belgian teachers and students have also sent very interesting pages about their
school lunches. → Tasks

Mette writes about the Belgian students who went to Norway

A few days ago, Mette sent us pictures of the
week that students from Waregem spent in
Bergen. She also wrote about this meeting
and the good times they all had in Norway.
This account was sent to our friends in Izmir
last week and has already been published on
the website! → Project activities → Exchanges

Our Turkish friends welcome Belgian students, too!

Belgian students visited Umit and the Turkish
teachers and students a few weeks ago.
They had a hectic week as they visited quite
a few places including Ephesus, the castle of
Izmir and a mandarin bazaar.
They attended a few classes and met the
general manager (Mr. Ali Rıza Doganata), the
school founder (Mr. Necdet Doganata) and
the school manager (Mr. Adem Serin).
Of course, they tasted local food and went to a traditional kebab
restaurant. They even cooked together!
In the course of the week, they danced, sang, played together.
Well... Look at the picture... They certainly enjoyed it, didn't
they?
 Christmas is coming!
Laurence and her students will film and take pictures of the school's Christmas meal next
Thursday. Of course, the film editing will take a few days but we will be able to send it by
January 2011!

This month's artist

When we think about food in painting, there is an artist whose name comes immediately
to our minds, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, as he often painted food to portray people – including
monarchs as he was the court portraitist to Ferdinand I at the Hapsburg court in Vienna,
and later, to Maximilian II and his son Rudolf II at the court in Prague.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527 – July 11, 1593) was an
Italian painter best known for creating imaginative
portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruit,
vegetables, flowers, fish, and books.

An early version of Summer,

1563, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Vienna, Austria.

Vertumnus, a portrait of Rudolf II.

Now at Skokloster Castle, Sweden.

See you next month!