Scour the tabloids, broadsheets, websites and blogs and it's hard to find anyone who had a good word to say about the Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives document. One rant on the England-only strategy came from north of the border. Anne Johnstone, writing in The Herald, claimed the re-introduction of compulsory cookery lessons for 11- to 14-year-olds was doomed. "Your souffle is not even badly-scrambled egg," she warned Health Secretary Alan Johnson.
"How can I be so sure? Because we've had compulsory cookery in Scotland for years and it is a disastrous failure." She is speaking from bitter experience because her three children went through it: "In the absence of a suitably qualified teacher, one spent a term doing crosswords and wordsearch puzzles about kitchen utensils."
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