{"id":19626,"date":"2014-07-23T19:01:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T19:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/?p=19626"},"modified":"2016-12-20T21:24:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T21:24:38","slug":"teach-child-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/teach-child-cooking\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Child Kitchen Wonders To Grow A Better Adult"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you were a child before the mid 1970s, your Mom probably cooked dinner just about every night of the week.<\/strong> In your home, the kitchen was the center of activity. That’s where the ONE telephone was bolted to the wall, tangled chord dangling below the handset. That rotary dial phone was the conduit to the outside world, but not the only type of communication going on in your kitchen.<\/p>\n

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Your Mother or Grandmother was passing on more knowledge than the phone in that room.<\/strong> And you, as a child, witnessed all that was occurring before you. There was fresh food<\/a> from the grocery store, meat from the town butcher<\/a>, and even ingredients from your own backyard garden. You knew what food was because it passed before you every day and every night.<\/p>\n

That ONE room in your home generated the excitement of dinner time together,<\/strong> family gatherings, visitors from the neighborhood or across the country, holiday cooking<\/a>, and smells of food cooking that I’m sure you can remember to this day. You probably did your homework on the kitchen table as Mom prepared the classic “meat and two sides” every night.<\/p>\n

\"cosby\"<\/a>But, if you were a child growing up after the mid 1970’s, you most probably stayed in the living room<\/strong> watching “the boob tube” as Mom heated the Swanson TV Dinner or mixed some ground beef with Hamburger Helper. If you were a kid in the 1980s or 90s, you probably saw your Mother pick up the phone and call for take out or pizza delivery.<\/p>\n

Where has all the love gone?<\/strong> Where has the love of cooking, the enjoyment of talking to the local butcher, the exhilaration of growing your own tomatoes<\/a> disappeared to? With the decline of the household kitchen as a center of body and soul nutrition in the home, there can be none of that anymore.<\/p>\n

I came to this realization when I tried to convince High School students they could use food as fuel<\/a> and make a healthier Chicken McNugget.<\/strong> With all the passion and culinary knowledge I could muster up, I told them of the benefits of good wholesome foods<\/a>. I demonstrated without a doubt that my method was better…and they didn’t care because a chicken puck that comes from the drive through IS chicken now. A fresh chicken breast “don’t look right”, as they said to me.<\/p>\n