From pasta to stir-fry: foods children should learn to cook in school

Prue Leith is right - cookery should be on the national curriculum. Here are the dishes that young people should learn to make

Prue Leith has called for children to be taught to cook at school, and for packed lunches to be banned. Parents, she says, bow to pressure from their kids and fill their lunchboxes with junk food (never mind that, at Tesco, a six-pack of Golden Delicious costs 60% more than a six-pack of Golden Wonder, or that a £1 Pot Noodle not only saves on the time it takes to make a salad, but on the cost of a £4 plastic container to carry it).

But whatever your thoughts on Leith’s view of packed lunches, her suggestion that children learning to cook on the curriculum’s watch is sound – if idealistic. “The most important thing is to teach children to cook at schools. And not only to cook but to understand about where their food comes from,” she says.

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from Children | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2OUQ3BN