Una experiencia educativa: enseñando lengua y literatura a través de la gastronomía intercultural

Abstract

In an educational experiment carried out at a secondary school in Ceuta, our main objective was the development of linguistic competence, through motivation towards and interest in intercultural gastronomy, specifically traditional dishes eaten in the religious festivals of the four cultures living in Ceuta.

On one hand, from a linguistic point of view, this experience was used to identify and produce prescriptive and publicity texts. On the other, from a literary perspective, the experience combined literature and cuisine, blending Pablo Neruda’s poems in with some texts written in Ladino, that is, the language used by the Sephardic community.