Jenny Ridgwell: I Taught Them To Cook

This week, we’re talking about cooking in schools again. But this
time, we’re travelling back in time to the early 1970s when a
young Jenny Ridgwell, clad in mini skirts, knee high boots and
tank tops was teaching an unruly bunch of London kids to cook.


Jenny has since written many cookery text books and founded The
Nutrition Program, an online analyst of recipes and meals, but
her memoir, I Taught Them to Cook, is a hilarious romp
through  a year in 1970s London as she negotiates the
classroom and a life of a young singleton. It also pulls focus on
what food was then and is now. Prue Leith called it
a  light hearted testament to the importance of food,
education, and a sizzling expose of the blindness of the powers
that be.’  


And if like me, you'd like to learn to cook properly, you can get
10% off the Essentials online course that I’m doing at Leiths
online. Go to
 leithsonline.com/courses/essential-cooking 


Click ‘enrol’ on course page and apply the code: GILLY10 at
checkout:


And if you fancy a Free Hollandaise mini-course
– Sign up for a Workshop account or login at:
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Enter code GILLYSGIFT and click redeem.


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