Mintball wrote:
I think Coddy's made a really important point, about education.
Ignoring the chicken-and-egg matter of what has killed off cooking skills for so many, it seems fairly logical to suggest that, for people to eat properly, they need some skills that many simply do not. So how do you re-introduce such skills?
It seems to me that there are two parts to this: the need to educate children and the need to educate older people/parents. The former is, in theory at least, easier than the latter. But it's not going to be helped if schools are allowed to ignore national minimum standards for school dinners etc. Accademies can already opt out; free schools will be able to too.
Because either the issue is genuinely important - and therefore a matter for the state - or it's a fuss about nothing.
I think you're over egging the 'skills' required. Peeling a couple of spuds and carrots, putting them in a pan of water and heating them up is not, IMO, a skill!
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