Home ec. or lessons for scratch cooking

[shootingstar]

Did you take home economics or have any cooking segment at school/camp as a teen? (Guess we'll see generational differences in answers here. )
Or when did you learn how to cook from scratch? Or still learning lots?

Yea, am back from that "era". I did take 3 home economics courses. 1 each from Grades 7-9. They were half credits (I think). Cooking/home ec. class teacher was a near Nazi-like hardened woman who terrified alot of us (meaning gals). Probably because there was alot of horsing around which she was trying to get us to finish dishes on time, without torching up the kitchen.

I do credit home ec. for exposure to me..to initial basics of baking since it's not part of my family's cultural background. So yea, it was the only time, we had control over home kitchen..to bake.

As for savory dishes, I leaned heavily on what I learned from mother (Chinese savoury dishes) who directed us to help her with certain tasks. Alot of what i learned in home ec. class, just got forgotten probably because I never transferred what I learned for macaroni 'n cheese (from scratch), etc. to home.

As for the loss of nutritional cooking skills/cooking from scratch:
http://www.straight.com/article-2154...-dying-skill?# or maybe there's hope for the future generations.