Home cooking is winning lockdown recipe – The Yorkshire Post says

THERE promises to be some welcome relief from the country’s troubles when a new series of Celebrity Best Home Cook is broadcast by the BBC next week when former Cabinet minister Ed Balls, Boris Johnson’s sister Rachel and others put their culinary skills to the test.
By YP Comment
Published 19th Jan 2021, 11:38 BST
TV cook Dame Mary Berry says "shopping once a week is a great lesson in not wasting food".TV cook Dame Mary Berry says "shopping once a week is a great lesson in not wasting food".
TV cook Dame Mary Berry says "shopping once a week is a great lesson in not wasting food".

It has the ingredients to be the type of inoffensive programme that used to be part of the BBC’s staple diet before its once great reputation for light entertainment became about as flat as a badly-baked Victoria Sponge cake.

But there’s also a serious side to the programme because home cooking, says celebrity cook and judge Dame Mary Berry, has “taught us all to use what’s in the fridge”, and that “shopping once a week is a great lesson in not wasting food”.

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She’s right – food waste in such quantities is immoral and unjustifiable when so many children are going hungry through no fault of their own. Let’s hope the show’s contestants have some enticing recipes from the ‘waste not, want not’ school of catering.

Ed Balls, the former Morley nd Outwood MP, is to take part in a new series of Celebrity Best Home Cook.Ed Balls, the former Morley nd Outwood MP, is to take part in a new series of Celebrity Best Home Cook.
Ed Balls, the former Morley nd Outwood MP, is to take part in a new series of Celebrity Best Home Cook.

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