English teenagers will receive cooking lessons in schools. The idea is to encourage healthy eating to solve the problem that many people are overweight. Also, it worries people that basic cooking and food preparation skills are being lost because parents use too much pre-prepared fast food.
Cooking was once regarded as an important part of education in England---even if it was mainly for girls. In recent years cooking has become less important in schools. But the rising level of obesity has led to rethink about the food that children are given and the skills they should be taught.
“What we want is to teach young people how to do basic, simple meals, which they can use now at home and then in their life,” said Ed Balls, an education expert.
The new lessons will start in September, but some schools without kitchens will be given a longer time to prepare. Also, there may be a shortage of teachers with the right skills, since schools have been teaching food technology rather than practical cooking. Besides, the lessons for hand-on cooking will only be one hour a week for one term. But the well-known cookery writer, Pru Leith, believe it will be worth it.
“If we’d done this thirty years ago we might not have to face the problem about obesity and lack of knowledge about food and so on. Every child should know how to cook, not just so that they’ll be healthy, but because it’s a life skill which is a real pleasure.”
The renewed interest in cooking is an effort to reduce the obesity rate, which is almost the highest in Europe, and according to the government, half of all British people will be obese in 25 years if present trends are not halted.
【小题1】The passage mainly talks about .A.the reason for obesity | B.the lost cooking skills |
C.the healthy eating | D.the cooking classes |
A.To encourage teenagers to eat healthy food. |
B.To reduce the country’s increasing obesity rate. |
C.To stop parents from turning to pre-prepared fast food. |
D.To prevent basic cooking and food preparation skills from being lost. |
A.All of them will become good cooks in their later life. |
B.Students will be healthy and enjoy the pleasure of such a life skill as well. |
C.Students will be able to make food experiments with the knowledge and skills. |
D.Students will be able to control the level of obesity in the whole country. |
A.continued | B.stopped | C.discussed | D.kept |
It was just after 17:00 on a mid-September evening at a historical Church in Harlem, New York City. Mostly the low-income black neighborhood sat at dining tables. In front of them was a menu listing three courses, which they only saw on TV. Each dish was prepared with “leftover” ingredients(食材), offered free of charge and placed alongside a blue card that read “you are loved” in hand-written script.
This-is-one of 14 community centers created around the world in cities like Milan, Paris, Mérida, Lima, Sydney and now New York through three-Michelin starred chef Massimo Bottura’s Food for Soul project. He started the project in 2016 with his wife, Lara Gilmore, to help fight the global problem of food waste-by using ingredients that might otherwise be thrown away by suppliers and to give socially and economically vulnerable people access to high quality meals.
Partnering with architects, artists and community leaders, the project is transforming spaces, which are not fully taken advantage of, such as churches and even a historical home into intentionally designed cultural centers equipped with kitchens, dining rooms and other facilities that help create a sense of well-being, connection and inclusion.
When I asked Bottura why he created such thoughtful. meals within beautifully appointed spaces for the low-income, he told me that everyone deserves respect and beauty-and of course, healthy food. “They come in and are completely lost because they’re not used to coming into beautiful places, like this. But once they’re here, they realize that this place is their place. It’s not my place,” he said.
Bottura’s philosophy is one that comes from the heart. T-shirts worm by volunteers at his community centers say “cooking is an act of love”, and he approaches the food served there with as much care as he does at his restaurants — “probably even more”, he said since the diners are extremely stressed and need healthy food to feel better. Bottura insists that it’s important to change the language around the food served in his community centers.
【小题1】Why does the author describe such a scene in the first paragraph?A.To introduce Bottura’s project. | B.To show the appeal of the dishes. |
C.To emphasize the warm atmosphere. | D.To explain how the event is organized. |
A.Privileged. | B.Independent. | C.Conservative. | D.Disadvantaged. |
A.Skilled and strict. | B.Caring and considerate. |
C.Wealthy and humorous. | D.Economical and influential. |
A.Respect and beauty are for all. | B.Beautiful places inspire respect. |
C.Cooking should be a profession. | D.Community centers bring people together. |
People who love to spend time in their kitchen know that after having a rough day it helps them to relieve stress. Cooking up a favorite meal helps you forget about any of the issues you focused on during the day.
Cooking can be a great way to put off a daily task, and those who love to cook know this all too well. Putting all your effort into making an elaborate meal or your favorite dessert is a great way to avoid anything that you have been dreading.
Eating out as a cook allows you to taste surprising ingredients in dishes.
A.Going out to eat becomes a whole other experience. |
B.Instead, you concentrate on creating something delicious. |
C.Cooking is also a universal language. |
D.Moreover, cooking plays an important role in family life. |
E.It is also likely to potentially inspire you to try to cook the meals in your own kitchen. |
F.Mastering cooking skills helps you to become creative with food. |
G.Cooking makes you a happy and popular person. |
There are many kinds of book clubs where members discuss a different book every month. What about dinner clubs, where people get together once a month or four times a year to make and eat dinner? In the dinner club that I joined, the hostess of the dinner club would prepare a big dinner first. Then the members would begin discussing the food.
There are two variations of a dinner club. One has a group of people who try a different restaurant once a month.
The great thing about a dinner club is that it serves in many different ways. You can make the dinner club even more special one month by inviting partners.
A.They prepare the entire meal in a group effort. |
B.Usually one member decides on the restaurant. |
C.This was the beginning of our dinner club. |
D.They are like-minded people with similar education level. |
E.The second kind of dinner clubs has many different forms. |
F.It offers regular well-organized social events in selected places. |
G.Couples can get together for some food and great conversations. |
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