‘Cooking is not a needed life skill anymore’: How Ireland’s eating habits have changed

With accelerated changes in how we buy, cook, and eat since the 1970s, a whole array of complexities and consequences have arisen concerning health, ethics, and climate change

Regina Sexton, programme manager of the MA in Food Studies and Irish Foodways at UCC says cooking is not a needed life skill anymore.
Picture: Cian O'Regan

How would your grandmother, or heaven forbid your great-grandmother, react to your homemade Thai green curry?

How could they fathom that you can essentially have anything you want cooked for you by swiping the tip of your finger?