Never mind teaching children to cook: they need to be taught to eat. Obvious? Totally, but this is the choosing part of eating, not the chomping and swallowing we are born to do. Yet, terrific survivors that omnivores have proven to be, they do not know poison from medicine unless told so.
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Available from the Spectator Bookshop, £10.99 Tel: 08430 600033. Rose Prince, is the author of The New English Kitchen and The Good Food Producers Guide.
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