THE backlash against plans for all secondary pupils to do practical cookery lessons continues with the hint that too many cooked-up classroom policies are spoiling the curriculum broth. Kenny Frederick, head teacher of George Green’s community school in Tower Hamlets, London, cautions: “The fact is that schools can’t deliver everything,” she writes in The Times Educational Supplement (Feb 8). “I believe anyone can cook if they can read a cookery book, so perhaps we’d be better off focusing on literacy and leaving the TV chefs to demonstrate the cookery.”