“英国伦敦的儿童解释了在假期供应的食物

是如何影响营养健康和社会福祉的。”

‘Children inLondon, England, 
describe how access to food through holiday provision canaffect nutritional and social wellbeing.’
这周，我们将继续为大家分享一个Research——Kitchen Social (厨房社交)。感兴趣的同学一定要往下看哦~


PART 1
“厨房社交”计划


在每年13周的学校假期中，英国家庭面临着从学校转移而来的压力，满足儿童在学期间隔中的社交和营养需求。当学期结束时，家庭遭遇粮食安全问题的可能性增加，这被称为“假期饥饿”。由于免费的学校膳食权利止于校门口，责任从国家转移到了家庭。

无法养活孩子的父母和需求与同龄人不同的年轻人都感受到了耻辱。而厨房社交(Kitchen Social)通过半活动半供应计划，提供健康膳食，促进儿童在假期中的社交发展。食品银行(Food Banks)作为向有需要的人分发食物的慈善机构，通常要求受援者“证明”他们收到食品援助是合理的。与之形成鲜明对比的是，厨房社交中心周围地区的任何年轻人都可以参加。这样做的结果是，参与者很少将假期供应视为耻辱的来源，尽管大多数人都知道，食物供应是他们在那里的一个重要原因，一个男孩干巴巴地评论道：

“不然你认为我为什么会来？”许多厨房社交中心的午餐都是每天从零开始烹制的，食物种类反映了参加活动的年轻人的多样性。从西印度饺子到素食馅饼，那些设备齐全的厨房中心里由年轻参与者们帮助准备食物。孩子们根据当天可用的食材来决定菜单的情况并不少见。对于伦敦南部兰贝斯区的一位10岁参与者来说，这样的变换是受欢迎的，他将其称为“真正的食物”。

For the 13 weeks of school holidays each year, UK familiesface the pressures that come with meeting the social and nutritional needs ofchildren that are met by schools in term time. Dubbed ‘holiday hunger’, thelikelihood of families suffering food insecurity increases when term time ends.As free school meal entitlement ends at the school gate, there is a shift inresponsibility from the state to the household.
There is a stigma attached both to parents who are unable tofeed their children, and to young people whose needs are different to many oftheir peers. Part campaign, part delivery program, Kitchen Social provideshealthy meals and facilitates children’s social development in the holidays. Instark contrast to food banks - charities that distribute food to people in need- that often require recipients to ‘justify’ their receipt of food aid, anyyoung people from the area around a Kitchen Social hub can attend. The upshotof this is that attendees rarely see holiday provision as a source of stigmaeven though most recognise that food provision is an important reason for beingthere, with one boy dryly remarking:

“Why else do you think I’d come?” Lunches at many of Kitchen Social’ssites are cooked from scratch each day and the food reflects the diversity ofyoung people that attend. From West Indian dumplings to vegetarian patties,those hubs with well-equipped kitchens see that young participants help withpreparation. It’s not unusual for children to dictate the menu according to theingredients available that day. This was a welcome change for one 10 year oldattendee in Lambeth, south London, who described it as “food food”.


PART 2
在城市空间中真正享受“假期”

“很高兴知道有一个空间

可以让你对事情的进展发表意见，这可能是午餐菜单，也可能是发挥创意。”
‘It’s nice to know there’s a space where you can have a say in howthings go, that could be the lunch menu or it could mean being creative.’

菜单设计只是年轻人通过假期供应来表达自己的声音的一个例子。一位在伦敦东部哈克尼区的中心的少年认识到，这促使了该机构沉浸在解决年轻人假期饥饿的困境中，他说：“很高兴知道有一个空间可以让你对事情的进展发表意见，可能是午餐菜单，也可能是发挥创意。”一些孩子直言不讳地支持以健康为导向的方法，即在所有中心的膳食中都包含水果和蔬菜，其中一个说：


“你知道，这种健康的食物真的很好，否则我永远不会吃得这么健康。”这种对营养食品的拥护可喜地打破了通常直接而极端的区分方式：虽然一个贫穷的年轻人的社会经济状况不该等同于对垃圾食品的偏好，但大众媒体一直试图将儿童的饮食习惯和偏好与社会地位绑定。

Menu design is just one instance of young people makingtheir voice heard through holiday provision. One teen, speaking at a hub inHackney, east London, recognised that this fosters an agency lost in youngpeople’s restrictive experiences of holiday hunger, saying: “It’s nice to knowthere’s a space where you can have a say in how things go, that could be thelunch menu or it could mean being creative.” Some children were vocal in theirbacking of a health-oriented approach that sees fruit and vegetables includedin meals across all hubs, with one saying:

“Such healthy food is really good [you] know, I’d never have beeneating this healthy otherwise.” This championing of nutritious food representsa welcome muddying of what is too often a straightforward polarisation:although the socio-economic circumstances of a deprived young person shouldn’tbe equated to a preference toward junk food, popular media has been leftwanting in painting children’s food practices and preferences as the inevitableoutcome of their social standing.
在英国伦敦阿克顿公园艺术街区的A.P.P.L.E.慈善机构制作牧羊人派

MAKING SHEPHERD’S PIE AT A.P.P.L.E. AT THE ART BLOCK INACTON PARK, LONDON, UK.

当被问及他们在中心想要更多什么时，年轻人一致表示：“活动”。与会者兴高采烈地谈论每个中心的课外活动，大多数人认为这是他们去的主要原因。一个男孩澄清说，食物只是“很好，因为它在那里”，但这些中心在让孩子们实现总体社会目标方面发挥着更广泛的作用。


这种情绪在伊斯灵顿中心与一名14岁的孩子的谈话中最为明显，他清楚地表达了假期供应对他意味着什么，他说：“你可以做你自己，你知道，吃鸡肉。”鸡的评论是对早先午餐时谈话的半开玩笑的引用。他觉得在整个伦敦，黑人儿童被不公平地描述为在外卖店和鸡肉店闲逛的问题儿童。

他觉得，假期供应在城市范围内提供了一个空间，在那里他可以享受假期，而不会遭受年轻黑人男性所遭受的歧视。在这方面，厨房社交中心的食物是年轻人享受一定程度的社会福祉的渠道，否则社会福祉会在校外被剥夺。

When asked what they’d want more of at the hubs, the youngpeople were unanimous in their declaration: “Activities.” Attendees talkedeffervescently of the extra-curricular offerings at each hub, with mostsuggesting it was their main reason for going. Food was simply “good ‘cos it’sthere, you know”, one boy clarified, but the hubs serve a wider function inallowing children to realise overarching social goals.

This sentiment was most evident in a conversation with a 14year old at the Islington hub, who made his feelings clear on what holidayprovision meant for him, saying: “You can just be yourself and, you know, eatchicken.” The chicken remark was a tongue-in-cheek reference to an earlierconversation over lunch. He felt that across London, young black children wereunfairly depicted as problem-children loitering at takeaways and chicken shops.

Holiday provision, he felt, offered a space, within theconfines of the city, where he could enjoy his holidays without the experienceof discrimination that he is subjected to as a young black male. In this vein,food at Kitchen Social is a conduit for young people to enjoy a level of socialwellbeing they would otherwise be deprived outside school.

英国伦敦伊斯灵顿Lumpy Hill冒险游乐场的夏季生日烧烤SUMMER BIRTHDAY BARBEQUE AT LUMPY HILL ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND INISLINGTON, LONDON, UK.

注释：

*本文是《深思熟虑(Food For Thought)》的摘录。

全文链接：

https://wheretheleavesfall.com/explore/article-index/food-for-thought/

*厨房社交计划于2017年1月在伦敦市启动，旨在提高对假日食品不安全问题的关注度。

官网链接：

https://www.mayorsfundforlondon.org.uk/kitchen-social/

原文作者：LaurenceLindars

翻译：张喆茗