| Description: | While training as a chef in 2000-01, I developed the idea of teaching children how to cook. The cookery school ethos was based on the cooking of food in season, organically grown and produced/cooked as 'slow' food not fast food.
The debate about children and obesity is just beginning. Cooking is an important skill which contributes to a Childs intellectual development and teaches them a wide variety of social and physical skills. Teaching children how to cook provides them with numerous learning experiences involving mathematics, language science and artistic creativity. When children prepare food they must co-operate, take turns, share and communicate.
Most importantly cooking is a life skill that many adults, appear to have forgotten. A well planned cooking session can provide the mathematics of weighing and counting, the science (e.g. of bread making) and the artistic creativity of food presentation.
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