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Bus stops for children to cook up exotic meals
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| Children from Oaworth school make meals in the cooking bus |
Spicy salmon triangles, bruschetta and spring rolls were on the menu at Oakworth Primary School last week.
The food, along with many other delicious and healthy dishes, was served up in a Focus on Food cooking bus, which was parked outside the school.
The vehicle is a specially built articulated lorry, which doubles as a mobile kitchen and classroom.
A total of 60 children from years one and five had access to the vehicle and were shown how to cook recipes, ranging from stuffed peppers and vegetable samosas, to Caribbean fruit salad and kaleidoscope couscous.
The children learned about topics such as nutrition, food safety and hygiene, though the main emphasis was on hands-on cooking.
At the end of the session the pupils were allowed to take home the dishes they had been taught to make. Teachers were given training in how they can teach cookery to young children and some school parents also had a chance to go on the lorry.
Deputy head, Fiona Lidstone-Green, said: "This wasn't just about making jam sandwiches - this was real food being produced and the kids absolutely loved it.
"We already do some cookery at the school but not to the extent that we'd like to. The teachers are now really fired up and inspired to expand it." The cooking bus visit was funded by Yorkshire Forward and run by the Focus on Food campaign - an outreach programme meant to support the teaching of cooking in schools across Britain.
The executive director of Focus on Food, Anita Cormac, said: "If we want our children to eat well they have to learn to cook first."
4:36pm Thursday 8th May 2008
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