[Sca-cooks] are kids taught or exposed to cooking? RE: cookbooks versus the internet

[otsisto]

The younger generation is the computer generation. I would be surprised if
they have ever used a cookbook. I find most teachers from Human
Environmental Sciences (HomeEc) have their students go to the web instead of
a cookbook because it is easy access.
It is easier to find what you are looking for on the web, along with
comparing same recipe with some variations to the ingredients.
On a slight off note,
Yesterday at the grocery store a young woman, probably 20 (w/boyfriend), was
looking for something in the baking section and not finding what they were
looking for. After the boyfriend grabbed a Mrs. White Chocolate muffin mix
and said "maybe this will work", I asked what it was she was looking for and
she said she was looking for chocolate cupcake mix. There were two cupcake
mixes but not chocolate ( had no idea that they were making cupcake specific
mixes). I showed her that you can use any cake mix for that purpose.
I remember growing up being taught from scratch and box mix, most girls AND
boys of my generation knew that you could get cupcakes from a cake mix.
Though this is a one time incident, I wonder just how uneducated kids are in
cooking and baking.

De

-----Original Message-----
Meant to mention this article from the NYT

Helping Ingredients Step Out of Their Comfort Zone By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN

Published: December 5, 2010.

It talks about cookbooks versus the : "In this digital age, the old-
fashioned cookbook has maintained its presence in the kitchen. Cooks
are still most likely to crack open a cookbook for a recipe, according
to a survey by Mintel, a market research firm, followed by these
alternatives: learning recipes from Web sites, from family members and
from cooking shows on television. But that is shifting for younger
cooks, with those from 18 to 34 saying that they are more likely to
find recipes online than in cookbooks."

(snip)
Johnnae