Slide 2 Literal Texts inspired by Food Culinary art and stories
belong together. Suvi Veijalainen 4/2014 Slide 3 Literal Texts
inspired by Food Literature is full of famous and plentiful meals
or of dreaming of them. Food is a very personal and intimate thing.
You are what you eat. It is also said that when you eat a very good
meal, so you get back your faith in life, if you have lost it. Suvi
Veijalainen 4/2014 Slide 4 Texts inspired by Food Information and
Library Service Students of Vocational Educational Centre in
Seinjoki took a challenging task to research and find texts in
literature, most Finnish, which deal with food and eating. The task
wasnt easy and the text samples were strictly elected. There could
be funny nonsense- rhymes for children, fairy-tales, folk-tales,
dreams of meals, situations in life when food was important or the
lack of it. The students tried to find out in what kind of feelings
and emotions food and eating were connected. Suvi Veijalainen
4/2014 Slide 5 Texts inspired by food Food and eating raises
passions and great emotions. The images raised by fictive food tell
surprisingly much about us. In literature the authors can use food
and meals and eating as an allegory to describe the situations of
life where the persons live or their attitudes to it. Suvi
Veijalainen 4/2014 Slide 6 Texts inspired by food Sadly in many
books of teenage-girls food is playing a bad role and one can read
heart- rending stories of anorexia or bulimia. When trying to find
your own identity and control of life food and eating (better
avoiding them) are a good weapon. Suvi Veijalainen 4/2014 Slide 7
Texts inspired by food Our students went through dozens and dozens
offoodtexts and finally chose some of them. During the job they
became very critical and as a final result we together posted about
ten samples of our textpiles to Kaisa Isotalo and her pupils in
Seinjoki Lyseo. We wanted to honour e.g. the Grand Old Lady of
Finnish childrens lyrics, Kirsi Kunnas, and her hilarious and
ingenious limerick-inspired verses. There were three of her
masterpieces. You can even here one of them: The Pan and the
Potatoes read by Kaisas pupils. Suvi Veijalainen 4/2014 Slide 8
Texts inspired by food As a second part of the whole project pupils
of Seinjoen lyseo( mostly Kaisas pupils) cooked food during their
home economics lessons and had our texts as their inspiration and
example. Presumably at least the texts of Kirsi Kunnas were
familiar to them and watching potatoes cook and dance in the kettle
like in the verse surely raised smiles. I'm sweating and steaming I
feel like screaming I'm bubbling and seething I'm rattling like
tea-things the pan said - took his hat off his head and Phew! The
Pan and the Potatoes by Kirsi Kunnas, translated Herbert Lomas, the
whole verse can be read at the end of this presentation Suvi
Veijalainen 4/2014 Slide 9 Texts inspired by food The Herb Soup of
Ms Rosemary was also one of the verses by Kirsi Kunnas. Hereby
there was a great opportunity for the pupils to get acquaintanted
with several herbs. Freely translated the verse brings for you to
taste an enormous bunch of herbs like celery, thymian, mint, sage,
parsley, basil, dill - wonderful! But oh pity! The judge of
flavour, Mr. Parsnip wanted to have the saffron, savory, chevril
and as a final crown the garlic! Suvi Veijalainen 4/2014 Slide 10
Texts inspired by food Dont play with the Food is a book by Jukka
Laajarinne. It contains short, humorous, sometimes absurd stories
from the kitchen and the bottoms of the kettles as he calls them.
Our example was called The Teddybear Pasta. It was a cute story of
a bagful of teddybear pasta, whos greatest wish was that some day a
little child would eat them. They were wondering whether they would
be crosted with ketchup or minched meat or a cream sauce. They only
knew that whatever it would be, it would be very good and tasty.
And and it was worth waiting for! Suvi Veijalainen 4/2014 Slide 11
Texts inspired by food One day the waiting was rewarded. The
teddybear pasta was boiled (they dont feel pain!). They grew big
and they got on them a coat of yummy ramsons pesto so their
mouths,eyes, ears, paws and tummies were all in this marvellous
pesto. The whole crowd was fullfilled with joy when they were
ladled on the plate. Suvi Veijalainen 4/2014 Slide 12 Texts
inspired by food In the future Texts concerning food and eating
will be used at school during the home economics lessons to
motivate and inspirate the pupils. Perhaps theyll find new ways of
cooking, finding recipes in literature and most of all become
inspired to examine and study the wide world of culinary art. Suvi
Veijalainen 4/2014 Slide 13 The Pan and the Potatoes by Kirsi
Kunnas, transl. By Herbert Loman Oi olen aivan hyrypinen, ihan
kiehun ja sihisen kuin shikinen, sanoi kattila ja nosti hattua
pshiih ihan kiehun ja kihisen ja puhisen, pihisen syljen, sihisen
shisen, khisen ja kiukusta rhisen, sanoi kattila ja nosti hattua
pshiih I'm sweating and steaming I feel like screaming I'm bubbling
and seething I'm rattling like tea-things the pan said - took his
hat off his head and Phew! I'm absolutely boiling I'm bristling and
whistling and hustling and moiling and all hot and sizzling it's a
mad mad bustle the pan said - took its hat off his head and Phew!
Suvi Veijalainen 4/2014 Slide 14 The Pan and the Potatoes by Kirsi
Kunnas, transl. by Herbert Loman Voi tt hoppua hoppua hoppua
huusivat perunat, voi tt hoppua ei tule loppua loppua loppua
polkata tytyy polkkaa, polkata polkkaa kiireist aikaa, tulta on
kengiss laukata tytyy laukkaa, laukata laukkaa ei ole tolkkua
milln, ei ole tolkun tolkkua kolkata tytyy kolkkaa, kolkata kolkkaa
hyv jos pysymme hengiss, hengiss, hengiss voi tt hoppua hoppua
hoppua ei tule loppua. Ouch this hoppity, hoppity, hoppity shouted
the potatoes, popping up fit to split no way of stopping it,
dropping it, swapping it dancing a polka, have to, dance, dancing a
polka got to go higher now, shoes are on fire now galloping,
galloping, off at a lollop jumping and jumping and off at a wallop
turning and thumping, thumping and turning oh this knocking and
bumping and socking off again copping it, hopping it, whopping it
makes me spit - no way of stopping it Suvi Veijalainen 4/2014 Slide
15 More photos taken by the pupils of Seinjoen lyseo during their
home economic lessons Suvi Veijalainen 4/2014 Slide 16 Texts
inspired by food Sources: Kunnas, Kirsi, Tiitiisen satupuu, WSOY,
1964, 3.p. Kunnas, Kirsi, Tiitiisen pippurimylly, WSOY, 1991
Laajarinne, Jukka, Ruoalla ei saa leikki, WSOY, 2009 Marttinen,
Tittamari, Pastapolkka ja mangotango, Kirjapaja, 2009 Salminen,
Elisa, Pullien pulla, Tammi, 2011 Surojegin, Pirkko-Liisa, Suomen
kansan hlmlissadut, Otava, 2000 The Pan and the Potatoes by Kirsi
Kunnas, transl. By Henri Loman
http://www.babelmatrix.org/works/fi/Kunnas,_Kirsi-
1924/Kattila_ja_perunat/en/31584-The_pan_and_the_potatoes
http://www.babelmatrix.org/works/fi/Kunnas,_Kirsi-
1924/Kattila_ja_perunat/en/31584-The_pan_and_the_potatoes [viitattu
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The Pan and the Potatoes, read by pupils of Seinjoen lyseo Suvi
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