“The mass is too dry!”, seminar farmer Monika Sohneg advises a course participant, because while cooking the semolina dumplings in the salt water become tattered. In the Cookinar, as the virtual event series of the Rural Training Institute (LFI) of the Chamber of Agriculture is called, Sohneg does not stand behind the hobby cook at the stove, but gives her help from afar from the cooking studio in the house of the Chamber of Agriculture in Linz. The farmer and herb expert can virtually look into the cooking pots and intervene if something goes wrong via video conferencing using an Internet link that was emailed beforehand, and laptops and tablets.
The new subject was invented by the LFI during the Corona lockdown period, when the spread of the virus forced curfews. “The communal experience of cooking has been fully preserved here,” says Sohneg. Participants would appreciate not having to drive to the cooking class in the evening and being able to cook in unison with the group from home. Sohneg remembers a special event: At that time, under her guidance, the branches of a family scattered on all continents “together” cooked a celebratory menu.
Source: Nachrichten
