TV chef reveals his worst school dinner to Thame pupils

PUPILS at a Thame school learnt today that top TV chef, Anthony Worrall-Thompson’s worst school dinner memory is liver!

Worrall-Thompson visited Barley Hill School this morning (01/06/09) to officially open its new cookery room provided with funds raised by the PTA.

During a ‘grilling’ by pupils, AWT said that he was served the liver, which he said resembled “a piece of shoe leather” with over-cooked, mushy swede. He emphasised however, that he had since grown to like liver. His favourite school meal, which was served up at the boarding school he attended from the age of three, was, he said, a breakfast of porridge – “the most important meal of the day” he said, and very necessary to prevent children from being unable to concentrate and stay alert at school.

He revealed that his favourite food these days was Japanese food, particularly healthy in his view. But his favourite meal to cook at home remained a traditional family roast, he said, including sprouts, the mention of which caused a collective groan around the assembled school!

According to Anthony Worrall-Thompson, recent scientific research has suggested that children need to taste a particular food 17 times before it becomes acceptable to them.

After cutting the ribbon to officially declare the cookery room ‘open’, Anthony worrall-Thompson cooked a meal with the five winners of a Design a school meal competition, during which the Mayor or Thame, Cllr Jeannette Matelot Green, who is a Governor of Barley Hill, dropped in to meet the school’s special visitor.