Alison Seabeck MP- | Food is Fun

Food is Fun

Alison joined parents of pupils at St Budeaux's Tamarside Community College and celebrity chef Peter Gorton as part of the Food is Fun Programme. The chef, from the Horn of Plenty restaurant at Gulworthy near Tavistock, visited the school's Cooking From Scratch group, which is made up of parents keen to learn more about food.

He took them through their culinary paces and helped them create a Thai curry, a pineapple chutney, and white and dark chocolate brownies. The club started up last year with a handful of parents. The school says it has grown this year – and now includes parents of children at feeder primary school, Riverside. Tamarside provides the ingredients, the recipes and the food technology rooms for members of the club. Phil Wilkinson, assistant vice-principal, said: "It was an absolutely fantastic event. Cooking From Scratch has snowballed over seven to eight months and we are now looking at starting up a second cohort.

"The club has been a phenomenal success and we hope it will continue to be so as the college develops into a marine academy." Tamarside is set to become the UK's first marine academy in September, called Marine Academy Plymouth. Academies are state-funded but run independently of local education authorities.