Nursery World - Recipe for success - cookery for children

A new cookery initiative aims to give children some food for thought, as well as useful skills.

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 ground. Fiona Hamilton-Fairley, founder of the Kids Cookery School in Acton, west London - which contains colourful, specially designed kitchens for children - says that she went out into the country to get a potato with roots on it to prove to one child that potatoes didn't come out of packets. 'She was mesmerised,' remembers Fiona.

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