COOKING

Who can learn to cook? Everyone can!

Learning to cook is the best - and most fun - way to learn about food. Getting your hands messy in dough or having fun podding fresh peas are ways we can connect with where our food comes from, whether we're 4 or 44.

These recipes will get you to think about where the foods you see in shops or cafes come from, what we do with wasted food and how to explore new ingredients, flavours and textures.

SSSH! It's a secret

Want to know the big secret to cooking food? If recipes don't turn out perfectly, most of the time it doesn't matter. It'll probably still be good if it's cracked, you forgot an ingredient or it spent a couple minutes too long in the oven.

The most important thing is to explore everything that food has to offer and to have fun.

For grown ups

Cooking with very little chefs can be fraught with obstacles, the flour get thrown on the floor, the butter keeps getting eaten and the mixture is flying out the bowl. A few little tricks can help things along the way, but the easiest rule is to be prepared and to have fun.