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Cooking in Schools

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Last broadcast on Mon, 7 Feb 2011, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

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Sheila Dillon explores the past present and future of cooking and food preparation in the school curriculum. She learns how it was introduced in the 1800s to educate girls for domestic service and is now part of the design and technology syllabus. Sheila looks at two approaches to food education in a primary and a secondary school and hears from interested parties the reasons for making cooking compulsory at secondary level.

Producer: Harry Parker.

Broadcasts

  1. Sun 6 Feb 2011
    12:32
  2. Mon 7 Feb 2011
    16:00

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