I had to laugh in the last week – one day we hear about plans to install metal detectors in schools to prevent knives etc being taken into the building.
Then a few days later to hear that all Secondary school pupils are to receive practical cookery lessons.
Pray tell….how are the kids going to cook without knives and other kitchen paraphernalia? or are we going to have a second set of metal detectors outside the domestic science classrooms?
There is a serious point though and the truth is that a new generation is growing up unable to cook anything other than microwave meals. To my mind, this arises because over the last 20-30 years or so we have seen both parents out at work and supermarkets found it easy to present a new offering in ready prepared meals.
The cooking skills are no longer being passed down through families and this has been compounded as the skills were not taught via schools either.
I welcome the transparency that we have seen recently on TV, with a sequence of programs dealing with the rearing, slaughter and butchering of our livestock. Supermarkets have sterilised the meat process and with the disappearance of our local butchers, youngsters don’t get to see the carcasses being jointed for our meat.
We do need to get back into the kitchens and get back to basics removing the fear of cooking.
Cooking good honest food is not difficult – just a bit of care and attention………and good ingredients.
I have recently launched a new website with the aim of introducing suppliers of good honest ingredients and giving honest critiques of their offerings and linking to the kitchen tools that you need….. Food with Passion is the site. An additional aim is to prove to myself and to others that home cooking is best.
There is a forum available to chat about food and your favourite suppliers, but to be frank, the take-up of membership is quite slow. It would be great to discover new suppliers of quality produce on our doorsteps. If you are interested in something other than humdrum quality supermarket ready meals and inferior meats, please stop by the forum or the main site and help the site grow to be a great reference stop by sharing your local food producers.
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