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“ How im- a change of necessities and priorities.
13 The topic: “Food on Europe’s Tables” 14

portant food

is for us young We often adapt the meal times to our
work, and often we do not succeed in
Europeans can eating together with the family mem-
bers. The little time during the week
be seen from that we spend together, we often fill
the fact that we with fast and finger food. Howev-

made this top- er, meals play an important role in
holidays, when it is not just a mat-
ic the topic of a ter of sitting at a sumptuously set,

2-year project in festive table, but of taking time with
order to explore the family and enjoying the special

aspects more delicacies. Today we pay homage to
food this way.
thoroughly.”
At our first meeting in Germany we
dealt with the topic of what we eat
t our first meeting, in Germa- today, what our grandparents ate,
A ny, we already noticed that what food we find in grocery stores
our eating habits appear to adapt to today and above all, what influence
the changes in society. Meals, which migration has on our menu.
were carefully prepared at grand-
parents‘ times, have no place on our The second theme of our project, in
tables. Not only have the recipes Ireland, was the representation of
changed, but also the eating habits. food in art, literature and language.
If it was common 50 years ago, for What is valuable to us humans shows
example, to have regular meals with in these fields, too, language being
the whole family at the table, four- the expression of a culture.
course menus, carefully prepared
dishes. These aspects often play a
lesser role in today‘s families due to

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