Recipe for success - cookery for children

A new cookery initiative aims to give children some food for thought, as well as useful skills. Anne Wiltsher reports Despite the plethora of colourful cookery TV programmes and zany celebrity chefs, most ordinary teachers and parents today have little confidence when it comes to cooking, and many children are growing up with an ignorance of food that is sometimes shocking. According to research by the British Potato Council, less than half the six- to nine-year-olds questioned knew that potatoes grew in the...