Her comments come as her Leiths Education cookery training service launch a new free primary school curriculum to help get children in the kitchen.
“There’s been three generations with no cookery going on in schools, or very little, so what we thought was that the answer was to have a really good curriculum, starting with four year olds and going right through primary school,” Dame Prue said.
She explained that the scheme had already been trialled in nearly 50 schools, with 82% of children involved seeing their cooking skills “improve enormously”.
“In my 50 or 60 years of teaching cooking, I have never yet met a child who didn’t enjoy a cookery lesson.”
“When they’re very young they’re so curious and they’re imaginative and they want to try things.”
