Recently I've started cooking serious meals. I've been doing a bit of cooking ever since I moved out from my parents, but I only started doing something more complicated than rice, chicken or eggs a few days ago.
Since I've lived with my parents for a very long time and they both were very good at cooking, ironically, I didn't have to learn anything, since there was always a semi-professionally cooked meal on the table. And now that I started doing it myself, I found out that I don't know anything about cooking. Such basic questions as "What is vinegar for?", "Should rice be put in cold water or boiling water?", "Can beets be cooked?", I have to google all the time - and I feel like at my age I should already know all of these things by heart.
Do you think schools should teach people cooking? For one, I think it would make people, on average, eat more healthy, since if everyone was decent at cooking, people likely would resort to eating fast food and other easy-to-get meals less and eating healthy tasty meals more. Plus, cooking is one of those universal skills that pretty much every adult needs, regardless of their profession and lifestyle.