With warnings of childhood obesity ringing in his ears, John-Paul Flintoff accompanies his nine year-old daughter on a cooking course he government has declared that cookery should be part of the ...

A FEW years ago, I was invited to give a talk, at our restaurant, about how we source ingredients and my general thoughts about food. I got on my usual soapbox bemoaning the lack of cooking lessons in ...

These days, there is an all-round interest in cooking, but back in the 1970s and 80s, cookery classes were a very different ...

Now that the children are out of school, the task of keeping them entertained begins. Paul Collins, an Oxfordshire chef and father of two, says he has the answer. He is prepared to hold a cookery ...

The Government deserves much credit for embracing Jamie Oliver's campaign for healthier school dinners. Its plans bore fruit this week with the introduction of new nutritional standards - which mean ...

Jamie Oliver has called for school inspectors to clamp down on cookery lessons as he claimed some children were just being taught how to make fairy cakes. The celebrity chef said Ofsted needed to ...

CELIA WIGG Cookery lessons are making a comeback in British schools and about time too say leading chefs. Celia Wigg reports In my era, cookery was a girls-only thing - the boys being destined to ...

Compulsory cookery classes for schoolchildren are falling flat, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has said, as he accused some schools of just 'making fairy cakes'. The 39-year-old chef has blasted the ...

Lessons in cookery and healthy eating should have been made compulsory in a shake-up of the national curriculum, food technology teachers have said. The comments come as the Qualifications and ...

I've never been to cookery lessons and yet will be doing a spectacular Sunday roast as you read this. Sadly, my wife thinks otherwise as the mess is usually wall to wall, despite my best efforts to ...