Calling all grannies. Do you share your cooking and baking skills with your grandchildren?

Calling all children. Do you share your granny’s cooking and baking skills? If so you could enter a competition and possibly become the next Rising Star Young Chef of the Year.

I remember watching my granny making wheaten bread and, as she floured the baking tray, the sound of her wedding ring tapping the sides as she turned it round and round until it was covered. Just being with her, talking and watching gave us a remarkable bond and me an insight into the realms of culinary skills.

Granny On A Large Scale

Ann King, who is spearheading the competition, is grandmother to 11 children from 13 to 22 years of age and they have all benefitted from her example, healthy eating and using imagination to produce exciting dishes; now she wants to encourage other young people to get involved in cooking and hopes the competition will encourage them to come forward with their menus to be judged later this year.

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By way of example she told me how the late chef Gary Rhodes grew up in a single parent household, with two sisters and........

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