Food for Thought School & College Tours to Venice
Venice is a great destination for food technology groups. This vibrant and educationally rich city offers a vast range of food related study visits, where groups will learn how to create some of Italy’s most famous dishes. From a visit to a working farm to a cheese factory and cake making demonstration, a study trip to Venice will not disappoint groups.
Food for Thought Visits
- Working Farm - Visit a working farm with lunch included.
- Venice Markets - Visit traditional Venitian fruit and fish markets on the Rialto and speciality shops offering regional produce.
- Wine Cantina - Guided tour of the maturation and bottling process.
- Country Market - Visit a typical Italian country market.
- Cheese Farm - Visit a cheese farm and learn about cheese production.
- Bakery - Visit to a local bakery for a demonstration of cake making.
- Pizza Evening - Enjoy an evening of Pizza making.
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Curriculum Focus
- Learn about and practise a range of practical food skills/methods/processes to produce quality outcomes
- Learn about the impact and effect of using a range of different equipment to produce food items of quality and consistency
- Explore how quality control checks are used to produce consistent food products on a commercial scale
- Experience the impact of ICT within the food industry
Student Outcomes
- Develop an awareness of current commercial/industrial processes of food production
- Learn about methods of food processing and preservation
- Witness and consider health, safety and quality control in all its aspects and discover the importance of packaging within the food industry
- Produce high-quality dishes that are accurately assembled and well finished to produce a high-quality product overall
- Learn about technological development, cultural and economic issues within the food industry
