The Need for Cookery Schools in America

In her article "My Moveable Feast: Gastro-tourism in Paris", Sara Lodge describes a variety of cooking schools in Paris ranging from one hour lunch breaks for office workers to six hour classes where you first shop then go to a sleek apartment to cook a three-course lunch.  One manager explained: "Even in France, people have forgotten how to cook.  We wanted to remind them."  WOW!  If the French have forgotten how to cook,  there must be a need in this country, during these financially difficult times, to teach want-to-be cooks how and where to begin.  And even if you are a competent home cook, there is much to learn from cooking demonstrations.  My tuna cakes recipe idea( see helpful resources) was a by-product from a cooking demo.  Sara Lodge found from these cookery schools, "When you teach someone to cook, you communicate your philosophy of life."  There is more to cooking than the need to refuel... it is a "habit of the soul."