I taught my students how to make Angel Delight tarts for a Convenience Food lesson. The aim was to show how quickly you can make a dessert.
I got letters from parents –
‘You should be teaching them to cook not open packets!’
Read my story on this link.
And if you want to make the recipe it’s here. It does get students to eat more milk which was a target of the day.
Link to Louise’s talk at my book launch for Cream Horns and Vol au vents. On this link
Discover how we met at Hurlingham School and went on to write many books together.
Louise runs The Food Teachers Centre which supports over 10,000 food teachers around the country.
This YouTube video is Part 1 of planning to write Cream Horns and Vol au Vents
There’s a diary for 1973 to get the dates right.
A list of rude cooking words
Planning the characters and changing names
Planing 1974 with three day week and blackouts.
Samuel Goldsmith Food writer, author and podcast host
Read Sam’s piece on his passion for food. How he became a food teacher then moved onto writing, podcasting and so much more.
And now he’s Chair of the Guild of Food Writers and runs a successful Good Food Podcast.
Thankyou Sam for contributing to my book Cream Horns and Vol au Vents
How I tried to teach my students to wash up in my lessons.
Do you ever dilute Fairy Liquid?
Story from Cream Horns…
This is my uniform as a 1970s cookery teacher with matching pink rubber gloves.
The post on this link became my most popular website click. But I don’t think it was to read about about food teaching.
Are pink overalls and rubber gloves a fantasy?
Read Louise’s post about her work with the Food Teachers Centre which supports food teachers in their work.
IMPORTANT STUFF!
Gov report suggests food lessons should be called Food and Nutrition. That’s 5 name changes since I started teaching!
Read Louise’s post on this link
Cover created by David Smith, a great artist who has illustrated so many of my books.
Amazon has Kindle, paperback and hardback on this link
Jenny Ridgwell 