As part of the Chefs Adopt a School programme, Idris Caldora, Executive Chef at the Academy of Culinary Arts instruct the children of St. Mary's Primary School in Battersea Photo: Glenn Copus
7 June 2012
Children had a reading lesson with a difference when a top chef visited their school after hearing about the Evening Standard’s literacy campaign.
Idris Caldora, from the charity Chefs Adopt a School, was inspired to meet children at St Mary’s in Battersea, which is at the heart of the Get London Reading campaign.
The charity uses food as a way of teaching children literacy and numeracy skills.
Mr Caldora taught about 30 children aged seven and eight how to make a Brazilian fruit and vegetable salad — and how to read the recipe and spell the names of ingredients.
