This is a discussion paper which generates some important research questions for educationalists. The teaching of food skills are at danger of being lost from the school curriculum by changes imposed by the National Curriculum. This sinister (i.e., unexplained/undefended) development generates potential problems for the teaching of cookery and for the food and eating traditions of British society. The central concern for nutrition educationalists is that cooking is becoming more and more de-domesticated and consequently will become more systemised, more mass produced; in which case, young people need not be educated in basic cooking skills.
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