Home ec. or lessons for scratch cooking

[PamNY]

I disagree in some ways that poverty = possible lack of cooking skills.

No amount of cooking skill will solve the problem of access to fresh food. Here is an article that explains the matter in my city. Other cities have similar issues.

The link Trek420 posted is very informative -- I hope you looked at it.

[shootingstar]

No amount of cooking skill will solve the problem of access to fresh food. Here is an article that explains the matter in my city. Other cities have similar issues.

The link Trek420 posted is very informative -- I hope you looked at it.

The efforts to establish more grocery stores with fresh food, closer to where people live is always helpful. Guess it remains to be seen are mechanisms for long-term changes to using fresh food regularily to change regular eating habits to something healthier, etc.


Thread is more reflecting on how we acquired knowledge of cooking technique, nutrition in the past and how we did/didn't act on such knowledge or if we did, under what circumstances.