In this village in Finland you can also learn how to be a chef for the community lunch in one of the houses called the Mankeli house. If you work like a volunteer then once a week in your project you are gonna be the chef of community lunch.
Sometimes the people from the village can be a lot or not during the lunch, it depends you know. You can make healthy meals with ingredients from the field during the summer like potatoes, zucchini and strawberries, but we also need to go to the shop like once a week more or less for the other ingredients like pasta, tomato sauce or other general things for stuff like this. When you’re the chef then you also need to make a schedule of meals like a menu for the week, and it can be everything you want to cook!
You can pick the ingredients from the field, shop or from the house if they are here. When it’s the community lunch then the Mankeli house is full of people from the village and you can talk with them about everything. The lunch here is a full of surprises . It’s also interesting to see how many people can cook so many different kind of meals and, be creative with the food. You can see people cook also some delicious dessert with red and black berries from the village!