German Pupils cook together with refugees and pupils with migration background

Cutting vegetables, cooking, seasoning and trying, these are universal actions which do not need language skills when cooking together. The important thing is where you come from, because the different seasonings depend on the origins. This is what we discovered when cooking together in the school kitchen of Gymnasium Kerpen.

Anastasia from Russia, together with Efrem and Hewan from Eritrea, cooked Timtimo,a typical food from Eritrea, which is eaten with the hands.

Mohammed from Syria helped Sandra from Poland, Lea from Germany and Nafie from Kosovo to prepare a vegetarian recipe from Spain.

Hannah from Germany and Mostafa from Afghanistan managed to prepare Túró Rudi, a typical dessert from Hungary and Simon from Germany worked on the dates from Spain together with Ali from Aserbaidschan and Mustafa from from Syria in another corner of the kitchen.

Ana Lena from Germany and her team – Sytkie from Kosovo, Zoya from Bulgaria and Ms Akcicek from Turkey – started cleaning up after they had made a millet salad from Turkey.

And in this way, the first recipes for the wonderful dishes in our cookbook came into being.

Afterwards – as the saying in the universal language goes: Enjoy!