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Failsworth School Parent & Child Cookery Course
Just wanted to let you know that our first Parent & Child cookery course was an outstanding success....one parent and child said that they survive on take aways and for the first time cooked a wholesome meal between them for the family- one parent said 'my son will never eat that' as the child tucked into his rissotto and commented on how good it was, he'd cooked it himself and thoroughly enjoyed reaping what he'd sown!!
It was an absolute delight to pass on some of the simpler skills that I have picked up over the years, from how to chop an onion, to how to blend in the stock to get the rissotto just right, to how to use and hold a knife correctly.
All children and parents enjoyed the lesson so much they all want to continue coming to each class every week, one parent even asked if I could hold classes every night!!
I think I've started what I have set out to achieve to show the fun side of cooking to get kids cooking and to get them cooking along side their parents...all in all an oustanding start to what promises to be a successful few weeks to get wholesome cookery on the map!Best Regards
Graham C Bradley
Failsworth School, Manchester.
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I do not know at which age one starts to store in his memory how to cook what he eats. Tastes and profumi are impressed for life without any intention, I think, but the tricks in cooking become interesting only later, so I assume for the first part of your life you know what you want or would like to eat, later you start being curious about how this can be done.
When women stayed at home cooking all the time there was much time to learn for children, going and coming from the kitchen or smelling clouds of steam coming from the boiling pans while doing their school exercises, those were our kitchen lessons, what you are doing with children and parents substitutes this being together while cooking, which seldom happens in young couples houses.
Bravi
