2023-09-16 16:59:52
If food inflation slowed slightly in August, to 11.2% compared to 12.7% in July, “food is one of the three most important items for households along with energy and transport », According to the Minister in charge of SMEs, Commerce, Crafts and Tourism, Olivia Grégoire.
In an interview published this Saturday in South West, the minister believes “that we must relearn how to cook raw products, to avoid buying ready-made, more expensive products”. “Cooking classes need to come back to school. There is a real issue of grandmothering, of education in everyday cooking,” she recommends.
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In March 2022, chefs, managers of hotel schools and the Rungis market were committed to this idea and signed a manifesto in Pif, the famous children’s magazine. Chef Alain Ducasse already called in 2017 for the return of compulsory cooking classes at school or college. In full confinement, the French had also rediscovered a taste for cooking.
The minister recalled this Saturday having asked the agri-food sector to increase the number of products in the “anti-inflation system” from 2,500 to 5,000, “i.e. 20 to 25% of the supermarket”.
On the sidelines of the publication of a parliamentary note, the socialist senator of Lot, Angèle Préville, spoke to AFP at the beginning of February in favor of the reintroduction of cooking classes at school, pointing out for her part the health risks of so-called “ultra-processed” foods.
In the interview carried out by Sud Ouest, Olivia Grégoire also regretted a “shortage of talent” in several sectors of activity such as personal services, hotels and restaurants, commerce, tourism and even sales.
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