16 March 2012
Holywood star contributes recipe to students' cookbook
A diabetic-friendly recipe for Apple Tart provided by Hollywood star Brian Cox features in a new cookbook produced by Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design students to raise funds for food security projects in the developing world.
Brian, Rector of Dundee University, contributed one of the 60 recipes in 'The Creative Cookbook'. The publication was created by illustration, animation and graphic design students as part of their Level 2 Communications Design module.
For the module, the students explored food in its widest context, examining issues such as farm production, food security, scientific food research and climate change, and an exhibition of the work they produced, entitled 'The Living Field' will be open at the Matthew Gallery, DJCAD, from 17th - 29th March.
The exhibition is a collection of three-dimensional installations that communicate issues relating to food production that affect our contemporary food system and society.
The Creative Cookbook has been produced by students, for students, and all proceeds will go to Signpost International, a charity empowering people in Africa and Asia to grow their own food, enabling the future sustainability of many communities in the developing world.
Brian Cox's involvement came after he was approached by Module Leader Jackie Malcolm and asked to contribute a recipe. The diabetic actor is keen to raise awareness of the risks posed by sugar consumption, and said he was delighted to provide the recipe, which his mother regularly made when he was a boy growing up in Dundee.
"It's easy to make," he said. "All you need is very thinly sliced cooking apples, cinnamon, short crust pastry, milk and sugar, or agave syrup for diabetics. Make sure you stew the apples and then add the agave and a little cinnamon. Roll the short crust pastry into the dish, spoon the apple mixture in, cover it and glaze it with milk."
Jackie Malcolm praised the students for their hard work in producing both the cookbook, and work of a very high quality which features in the exhibition.
"The students have worked very hard on a very complex project involving many aspects of food research," she said.
"The cookbook they have produced will help to make a difference to people who do not have the same food choice as they do and will help them to nurture communities desperate for the simple basic food products to live.
"The involvement of many different partners has made this project multidimensional in its understanding of food, and we are very grateful to them for the contribution they have made to the project. This exhibition is the result of all their hard work and demonstrates the possibilities of communication design."
The James Hutton Institute, Biosphere Research Institute, Newton of Arbirlot Farm, and Signpost International are among the organizations who assisted the students during the module.
'The Living Field' will be open at the Matthew Gallery until Thursday 29th March from 9am until 9pm on weekdays, and from 12pm until 5pm on Saturdays.
The cookbooks are on sale for £5 and all proceeds will be donated to Signpost International. Copies can be purchased from the John Smith Bookshop on the University campus, or by contacting Jackie Malcolm on j.y.malcolm@dundee.ac.uk.
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