Posted by By Sola Shittu, Reporter, Ibadan on
The growing number of failed marriages has been traced to the inability of women to prepare good and delicious dishes for their families at home......
The growing number of failed marriages has been traced to the inability of women to prepare good and delicious dishes for their families at home.
Proprietress of Kings and Queens College Ibadan, Dr. Kate Akingbelu who said this at the first edition of a cooking competition organised for secondary schools pupils in Ibadan said this deficiency among ladies was also responsible for increase in men craving for delicacies prepared outside their homes and the growing eateries and fast food businesses in the country.
"Experience had shown that meals prepared by young ladies had similarly led some men to spend more time in these eateries than in their matrimonial homes. "There is no gainsaying in the truism that the path to a man's heart is through his stomach," she said.
In her paper titled, Delicacies: A prerequisite for happy Living, Akingbelu said the competition was the contributions of the school to sharpen cooking skills of young girls before they get married.
Apart from its social implication on the family unit, she said the competition would prepare participants for a future career in catering.
The KC boss also advocated the introduction of Food and Nutrition as compulsory subjects in the secondary schools' curriculum.
This, she said should be done without gender discrimination to enhance the cooking skills of the students and enable male-child learn to complement efforts of their wives in home making.
At the end of the competition, Kings and Queens students were adjudged the best; while their counterparts from Royal College, Bashorun and International School, University of Ibadan came second and third in that order