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Mary Berry slams schools for failing to teach children simple cooking skills and says every pupil should learn 10 healthy recipes

2018-04-30

[MAIL] Mary Berry puts her success as a cooking phenomenon down to learning the basics from her home economics teacher as a schoolgirl.

But she has slammed today’s schools for failing to teach children simple cooking skills and cutting resources.

Miss Berry, 83, said: ’Every child, when they leave school, should be able to create ten dishes that they really enjoy themselves, that are healthy, that aren’t expensive, that are nutritionally good.

’When they leave school and they’re living in a rented room with one ring, they should be able to create a meal quickly from a few ingredients ‐ and enjoy them.

’But the problem is that the schools have let go of their home economics departments. They’ve sold off the equipment and made them into other rooms.’

Miss Berry, pictured, also told The Sunday Times Magazine that she would have all children taught how to ’make gravy sauce, how to cook vegetables, how to cook cheaper cuts, and so forth’.

The former Great British Bake Off judge said she first learnt to cook from her domestic science teacher, Miss Date.

Posted by:Besoeker

#10 A friend of mine who's a chemist says chemistry and cooking are the same in the respect that it's all about knowing what you can get away with burning and knowing what you should never burn.

My father was an organic chemist. He started with the end result he desired nutritionally, then worked his way backward to develop the recipe. His crepes were acceptable, tastewise, but contained a full day’s key nutrients for a child in each one — my baby brother was very picky, needed to be fed, and loved maple syrup on pancakes.

Posted by: trailing wife 2018-04-30 22:22

#9 I learned to cook in Boy Scouts. I eventually got pretty good.

Posted by: Glenmore 2018-04-30 20:31

#8 A friend of mine who's a chemist says chemistry and cooking are the same in the respect that it's all about knowing what you can get away with burning and knowing what you should never burn.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-04-30 17:43

#7 Home economics is chemirtry, science, math and art all rolled into one subject. Seriously!

Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 2018-04-30 12:00

#6 she first learnt to cook from her domestic science teacher, Miss Date.

Note, not from her mother. The English have historically not known how to cook, I understand.

I was the only guy and there were all these chicks...

Spoken like an engineer, Frank dear. Mr. Wife used similar logic for taking ballet classes in university, though he also figured if it was good for NFL players...

Posted by: trailing wife 2018-04-30 11:40

#5 That's why God and Raytheon invented the microwave oven.

And Ramon Noodles!

Posted by: CrazyFool 2018-04-30 11:22

#4 Marion Barry had to learn his simple cooking skills in motels and alleyways.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-04-30 10:20

#3 I got a lot of crap from my friends and fellow football players in high school for taking Home Ec, til my friends realized I was the only guy and there were all these chicks...

Posted by: Frank G 2018-04-30 07:33

#2 ...from her home economics teacher as a schoolgirl.

What a quaint notion - that students should actually learn useful things while they're there. That would, however, interfere with leftist indoctrination.

Posted by: Raj 2018-04-30 06:58

#1 That's why God and Raytheon invented the microwave oven.

Posted by: Tholurong Jones1532 2018-04-30 05:27

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