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

[Elaine Koogler]

I tend to agree...if kids don't see their parents doing real food, cooking
it themselves, then how are they supposed to learn about cooking.  My mom
really hated cooking but she was incredibly good at it.  She never really
taught me to cook...as she didn't enjoy it, she wanted to get it done as
quickly as possible!  This was back in the day when there weren't frozen,
microwavable dinners...in fact, we hadn't ever heard of a microwave oven!
 My dad grew a huge garden, and we canned/froze stuff from the garden.  All
of our meat, except chicken and fish, came from my grandfather and uncles'
farms.

So...as it turns out, I hate yard work and gardening, having spent copious
amounts of time doing both when I was growing up!  But I love to cook.  I
figured out how to do most stuff just by watching my mother, even though she
never really taught me anything about how to do it.

So kids don't really need someone to teach them how...they just need to see
it being done!  I have a dear friend with two great kids...and the kids love
to cook because their mother has encouraged them to cook.  In fact several
years back we gave the kids chefs' toques, aprons (personalized) and a
cookbook for Christmas.  They loved the gifts and proceeded to use them!

Kiri

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Audrey Bergeron-Morin <
audreybmorin at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Most of the times, you have to ask yourself, how uneducated are their
> parents about cooking and baking? A lot of adults don't cook much; they'll
> use microwaveable food, order out or eat at the restaurant, or use boxed
> mixes and pre-marinated meat from the grocery store.
> <

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