How I tried to teach my students to wash up in my lessons.
Do you ever dilute Fairy Liquid?
Story from Cream Horns…
Tag: food teaching
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Delia stopped 300 mincepies
Delia’s How to cheat at cooking helped stop me making mincepies for the school Carol Service 1973
Read about it on this link
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Pink Nylon Overall
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?
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Louise Davies Food Teachers Centre
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
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What is cookery called now?
Government report 5/11/25 says – We recommend renaming ‘Cooking and Nutrition’ as ‘Food and Nutrition’
In 1970s my subject changed names 5 times!
Story from I taught them to cook is on this link.
Curriculum and Assessment Review says that students should have a grounding in practical cooking skills. They should also understand food hygiene and sustainability.
The focus should be on cooking healthy, nutritious meals.
Download the report on this link – go to p70
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Cream horns and vol au vents – new cover
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
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Gilly Smith on Food
For my book, Gilly Smith has written a passionate piece on the importance of food education. She gives examples of educators and their valuable work.
Read about it on this link
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Corned beef story
Anyone ever lost one of these?
Boys were especially good at breaking the keys on their tins.
You can read the story on this link.
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Boys don’t do cooking
Boys were able to take cookery lessons from the 70s.
Read my story of why so many came to my classes.
Jenny Ridgwell 