Chocolate, Cinnamon and Banana Macaroons

Ingredients
- 7 oz of icing sugar
- 4oz of almond powder
- 3 eggs whites
- 1 tbsp of cocoa
- 1 tbsp of cinnamon
- 1 oz of caster sugar
- 3 oz of white chocolate
- 1/6 cup of cream
- 5 tbsp of banana purée

Method 
First, sift the icing sugar, the almond powder, the cinnamon and the cocoa in a large bowl.

Second, whip eggs whites in medium sized bowl until they are stiff. Add the caster sugar little by little.
Third, stir gently the egg preparation into the large bowl until the mixture becomes smooth.
Then, form small circles with the mixture on the baking paper with teaspoons.
After that, set aside for two hours.
In the meantime, put the white chocolate and the cream in a saucepan until the chocolate is melted.
Next, remove from the heat and add the banana purée
Then, set aside the fridge for a few hours.
Preheat the oven at 170°C.
Next, bake for 11 minutes.
Eventually, spread the banana ganache on each macaroon and assemble them.

Personal comments

The recipe is traditionally European but I have chosen to put the cinnamon and banana which come from Africa and cocoa which comes from America. It symbolizes the agreement between those three communities that have very different cultures. 
These three continents have a very special relationship because since the 16^th century there are a lot of tensions because of the colonization.
 In fact, nearly 30 million of slaves died in sugar cane and cocoa plantations. These slaves were imported from Africa to America to produce cocoa and the same boats exported the cocoa into France to be transformed in chocolate. 
Then, the boats imported manufactured goods to Africa. These three continents are representative of the triangular commerce which had led the word economy for nearly three centuries. In the recipe, colonization is modified to reach a unique cake which only exists if the three continents are united. 
The colours are inverted to fight against prejudice. America is represented by the cocoa and Africa is represented by the banana which is white. Europe is the continent where all the mix of populations is possible. 

Through my recipe, I imagine a world where racism does not exist any more. I imagine a world where everybody lives in peace and harmony but where everybody keeps their own identity, which makes them different. That’s why I didn’t cook a mixing of black and white but a union between Europe, Africa and America.

By Maguelone Javerzac

Bamoke Cake

Ingredients   

9 Oz of flour
4 eggs
oil
White wine
5 Oz of Gruyère

1 packet of yeast

8 round slices of bacon
10 dried tomatoes
1 mozzarella
2,5 Oz of nuts

Utensils 

1 large bowl
1 mould
An oven
2 tablespoons
1 knife

Method

First, preheat the oven at 180 degrees.
Second, put the floor into a large bowl with the eggs and mix a little bit with 2 tablespoons.
Third, in the large bowl, add 10 tablespoons of oil and 10 tablespoons of white wine. Mix.
Then, take a knife and cut the bacon into slices, and cut the mozzarella into pieces.
Add the bacon and the mozzarella in the large bowl, with 5 Oz of Gruyère, 2,5 Oz of nuts and a packet of yeast. Mix all with your tablespoons.
Shed the mix into a mould.
Then, put the mould into the oven, wait 40 minutes, it's ready !

Personal comments
I made this recipe because of my origins. When I saw that we had to do a work related with another country, I immediately thought about my family origins. So I took my three family origins which are : American origins from my grandfather, Italian origins from my grandmother, French from the rest of the family.
I took the American origin from my grandfather who lived in California for 10 years. Bacon is a typical American food ! I took the Italian origin from my grandmother who was born in Italy and lived there for 8 years. Mozzarella is typically Italian food ! And then, I took my French origins from the rest of family and added the rest of the ingredients.
Then I wanted a base for my recipe, and I chose the cake. In the cake we can add anything so it was easy to make.

Hope you will enjoy it ! Thanks for reading. Have a nice day !

By Delpech Constant

World Sushis

Ingredients
- 11 oz of rice ( 300 g)
-2 apples
-1 kiwi
- 4 tbsp of cocoa
-2 oz of dried cranberries
-1/2 cup of water ( 350 ml)

Utensils
- A sauce pan
- A medium sized bowl
- A sharp knife
- A service dish


Method
1. First, pour the water in the saucepan until it boils. 
2. Second, add the rice in the saucepan until it absorbs all the water.
3. Third, peel and cube the apple and the kiwi with the sharp knife.
4. Next, make a ball with rice and insert a cube of kiwi and a cube of apple inside the ball of rice.
5. Finally, decorate with the cranberries and sprinkle a little cocoa on your sushi.
6. Repeat the two operations until there’s no more rice.

Personal comments

In this recipe, I chose one ingredient to represent each continent : rice represents Asia, cocoa represents Africa, kiwis represent Australia, and apples represent Europe.
I think this recipe can show multiculturalism is a good thing, because in cuisine, if everyone adds a little thing, everyone can make a good recipe. 

Everyone is different and if each culture adds something personal in a recipe, it could please everyone. For example, I love Asian culture, particularly Japanese culture. But they haven’t got chocolate in their traditional food, so I decided to make a Japanese recipe with chocolate. Everyone can add a speciality to something he or she likes, and it will give something better.

by Athénaïs Benissad

Lemon Yoghurt Cake and Apple Crumble

Ingredients (serves 4)

- 3 eggs

- 175 grams of white sugar

- One pinch of salt

- 10 cl of oil

- The grated zest of one lemon

- One whole milk yoghurt

- 200 grams of flour

- One bag of baking powder

- One bag of vanilla extract

- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder

- 5 granny apples

- The juice of one lemon

- A knob of butter for the dish

Utensils

- A peeler

- A knife

- A plate

- A bowl

- A whisk

 Method

1. First, wash the apples and peel.

2. Second, cut in cubes and put in a buttered plate.

3. Third, press the lemon and drop the juice on the apples.

4. Next, break the eggs in a bowl.

5. Next, add the sugar in the bowl and whisk the eggs with the sugar until the mixture whitens and makes a ribbon when you lift the whisk.

6. Meanwhile, drop the oil while continuing to whisk.

7. Then, add the zest of the lemon, the yoghurt, the flour, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder, one bag of vanilla extract, one bag of baking powder and one pinch of salt.

8. Next, mix the ingredients together to obtain a homogeneous mixture.

9. After that, pour the mixture in the plate over the apples.

10. Finally, preheat the oven at 190° and bake the preparation for 45 minutes until the cake is firm.

Personal Comments

The apple crumble is a typically English and the yoghurt cake is typically French. 
I have created this recipe in order to mix these two cultures together, and according to me, that symbolizes peace between England and France.
These two countries maintained an adversarial relationship before because of the Hundred Years War. 
The acidity of the granny apples symbolizes the war and the sweetness of the cake symbolizes reconciliation. 
About multiculturalism, the message that I have tried to deliver through this recipe is that there are many contacts between England and France and a lot of friendship or love between English and French people. 
England is part of the European Union and the English is one of the first languages learned by French students ; and to me, this recipe symbolizes exchanges, love, peace and fraternity between our two countries.

Asian Bricks

Method 1. First, cook the rice as usual and put it in a large bowl. 
2. Then, add a box of tomato tuna.
3. Mix the ingredients vigorously.
4. Then, add a pinch two or three pinches of cinnamon, 2 pinches of paprika and a pinch of salt.
5. Mix everything well again.
6. Now you're mixture is ready.
7. Then, takes the leaves of bricks and add your mixture into, make a form, one you like. For example, triangles, little gifts...
8. Then, with the aid of a brush "paint" your bricks with egg yolks.
9. Now, you can bake them in a frying pan with two tablespoons of oil, during 5 or 10mn, until they are golden.

Personal comments To me, the "Asian bricks" are the fusion between two countries; Indonesia and Tunisia. Indonesia, because of the rice, indeed it comes from Asia. And Tunisia, because the bricks are from there. 
I chose these two countries because I really love them, I have been  in Indonesia two times, and I am from North Africa, or rather, my grandparents are. It's an easy recipe, and I think, I hope, people will like this dish a lot.
I made this dish because I think it's very interesting to mix two really different dishes into one, two different cultures, different kinds of people.
We should do this more often, absorb and adapt external influences to our country and make people discover our culture and influences too. 
It's really important for me to be open-minded, and share what I like with people around me who are interested to discover new things too. 

German Stars With Salted Butter And Amaretti Powder

Method

1. First, preheat the oven at 180°. 
Meanwhile, mix 6 ounces of flour, 1 pinch of milled ginger, 1/2 teaspoon of four spices, 1/2 of cinnamon and 1 teaspoon of almond flour in a medium sized bowl. Add 2 ounces of salted butter and stir with fingers until you get a cookie dough.

2. Next, blend 3 ounces of brown sugar, and pour 2 tablespoons of sugar cane syrup and 2 tablespoons of milk in the mixture. Mix well until the dough becomes thick.

3.Then, put the batter on a floured plate. Knead until it's homogeneous and spread it (the batter must still be 1,5 cm inch thick)

4. Next, cut the mixture in stars shapes. Put them on a plate and let them cool.

5. After that, heat up in the oven while 10 or 12 minutes. Take the biscuits out of the oven and let them cool a little. And put them on another plate.

6. While they're cooling, prepare the glaze: in a little bowl, little by little, include 2 ounces of sifted caster sugar to an egg white until you get a thick liquid.

7. Finally, brush the surface of the biscuits with glaze using a brush or a pastry bag.

You can place them on a plate.

Personal comments

For me, who don't specially like cooking, a dish can tell lots of things about a country, about its traditions and what is special about it. But we can also add a message to a dish, so that it can allude to history, for example. 
That's why I chose to take a German dish as the basis of my recipe, and add salted butter used in France and in England, and finally the powder of an Italian amaretto (made with almond). These four countries were at war in the past, I think of the World Wars that were unprecedented massacres.
From then on, people have considered German people as Nazis. For how long? Shouldn't we leave it away, without forgetting what happened but change our mentalities? 
Germans are not Nazis, as all French people are not royalists (American stereotype of French people, also called "froggies"by the British). 
According to me, the union of these countries could be enriching. We should take advantage of this union.

Pancakes and Hummus

Ingredients
- 130 grams of drained chickpeas
- 2 tablespoons of cumin
- 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
- 1 clove of garlic
- 360 miles of milk
- 2 tablespoons of coriander leaves
- 250 grams of flour
-1 tablespoon of yeast
- 2 eggs
- butter
- 1 carrot
- 10 olives 
- salt

Utensils
- a blender
- a whisk
- a large bowl
- a small bowl
- a frying pan

 Method

1. First, make the hummus : in a blender, put 130g of drained chickpeas, 1/2 tablespoon of cumin, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, a clove of garlic, 60ml of milk and 2 tablespoons of coriander leaves finely chopped.

2. Then, mix all the ingredients until the mixture is smooth. Your hummus is ready.

3. Now, in a large bowl, mix 250g of flour, 1 tablespoon of yeast and a pinch of salt.

4. Then, add 30cl of milk and stir it with a whisk.

5. Then, break 2 eggs and mix them in a small bowl.

6. Now, add the eggs in the pancake batter.

7. Next, take a tablespoon of melted butter.

8. Then, grate a carrot and cut 10 olives in two parts.

9. Add them in the large bowl and dust with a pinch of cumin.

10. Now, put everything in a frying pan and let heat.

11. Finally, add the hummus on each pancake and taste!

Personal comments

Taste and savour this delicious dish! "Pancake and Hummus" will make you travel with its different origins.

Indeed, the famous pancake is of German origin and was brought to America by the Settlers. As for hummus, we don't know the exact origin; Israel and Lebanon argue the paternity.

These dishes, separately, have a common point : they travelled across countries, and their culture and their concrete origin remain a bit fuzzy.

That is why, beyond their culinary alliance, I wanted to create a new dish which will erase these questions and conflicts, because these two dishes actually form only one...

"Pancake and Hummus" is based, over all, on multiculturalism : a result which is beneficial for everything and everybody. It is very interesting to see, here for example, how good it can be to mix different culinary origins. We can discover new savours, new ingredients, etc. Thanks to this, we learn a lot about countries.

By Camille Laperche.