{"id":387,"date":"2017-11-09T14:53:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T14:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/dalrysecondary\/?p=387"},"modified":"2017-11-16T14:40:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T14:40:20","slug":"food-for-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/dalrysecondary\/2017\/11\/09\/food-for-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On Monday 6th November, Mrs Farquhar took a group of S3\/4 pupils to “Food For Thought” at Easterbrooke Hall in Dumfries.\u00a0\u00a0Funding from Education Scotland\u00a0provided a\u00a0chance to\u00a0experience working in a real-life restaurant, and training in carrying out front-of-house duties.<\/p>\n

Events Manager Fiona Grand gave the pupils a tour of Easterbrooke and Neuros Restaurant as well as the spa and swimming pool.\u00a0 Pupils were divided into three groups.\u00a0 One group had to make “mocktails” in their own bar, another group went to the kitchen to work with the chef and make a variety of foods.\u00a0 The final group had to lay and decorate the tables.\u00a0 Each group had the chance to experience each activity.\u00a0 One of the groups made pizza with the chef, which we ate for lunch along with sweet potato fries.\u00a0 It was a great experience for the pupils to learn about all the different jobs in the food and drinks industry.\u00a0 One pupil said, “I didn’t realise there was a restaurant inside Easterbrooke.”\u00a0 Another said, “The food was great, especially the chocolate mousse.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday 6th November, Mrs Farquhar took a group of S3\/4 pupils to “Food For Thought” at Easterbrooke Hall in Dumfries.\u00a0\u00a0Funding from Education Scotland\u00a0provided a\u00a0chance to\u00a0experience working in a real-life restaurant, and training in carrying out front-of-house duties. Events Manager Fiona Grand gave the pupils a tour of Easterbrooke and Neuros Restaurant as well as … Continue reading “Food For Thought”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1390,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-economics","category-school-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/dalrysecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/dalrysecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/dalrysecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/dalrysecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/dalrysecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/dalrysecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/dalrysecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/dalrysecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/dalrysecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/dalrysecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}