If you’ve ever looked at a glossy photo of a beautiful dish of food – and then looked around your kitchen in despair, you might want to listen to this edition of the BBC World Service programme The Food Chain that I helped produce.
Many people feel they can’t cook, or don’t know where to start and studies suggest that in some countries, fewer and fewer people are preparing meals from scratch.
Presenter Ruth Alexander explores what holds people back from cooking, and how to overcome it, by discussing these issue with three amazing guests:
Robin Van Creveld, founder and director of Community Chef in Lewes, England, teaches people practical cooking skills through a social enterprise. Tokunbo Koiki, founder of Tokunbo’s Kitchen Catering Company and London African Food Week, joins from Lagos to share her approach to making cooking accessible and enjoyable. And Pak Wai Hung, owner of 288 Bar and Wok restaurant in Cheltenham, explains how building confidence can be just as important as learning techniques.
Listen here.