Marco: Dish up cooking skills instead of languages
Chef Pierre White CELEBRITY chef Marco Pierre White has called for cooking classes in schools claiming they are “way more important” than learning French.
The judge of TV3’S The Restaurant said youngsters had to be encouraged to get involved in the kitchen at an early age.
The 56-year-old said: “I think cooking is a life skill. And the comment I’m going to make now is highly controversial.
“I think it’s more important for children to learn how to cook than to be taught French.
“I went to French classes for years and when I left school I spoke French like a parrot. ‘Je m’appelle Marco’. That’s your lot.
“I think cooking should be on the curriculum, I really do, because it’s a life skill and you never know in this world when you might need that life skill.”
Marco recalls how his dad was able to look after the family after his mum’s premature death.
He added: “For example, my mother died when I was six and my father is a chef by trade so we were fed well.
“Can you imagine if my father was not a chef, how we would have been fed? Not very well would we?
“I think it’s way more important than being taught to say, ‘Je m’appelle Marco’.”