A poor knowledge of basic cooking techniques and the new limitations imposed by our busy lifestyles explain why the younger generation has gradually given up on cooking... But one idea is starting to catch on: could the kitchen come to the rescue of nutrition ?

Putting the fun back into cooking

Over the last fifty years, people have gradually deserted their kitchens. At the same time, leisure cooking, based on quick and easy recipes, has begun to catch on, as the growing number of books and courses, TV programmes and blogs about cooking shows!


According to a survey performed by CREDOC (2004) called “Consumption and lifestyles”, cooking helps people control what they spend on food and enjoy themselves at the same time. As well as being fun, cooking also offers health benefits.


Cooking allows you to prepare varied meals and traditional family or regional dishes using fresh, seasonal produce. Healthy cooking is also about controlling the amount of ingredients you use and how you prepare or cook them. Adapting portion sizes to each member of the family helps control weight gain.  


As well as the health benefits mentioned by consumers, the kitchen also provides a warm and sharing environment.

Promoting cooking

CEDUS plays an active role in promoting cooking to consumers and the media. This day-to-day commitment involves three types of initiatives: the mass distribution of dessert recipes for amateur cooks, attendance at major regional and national gourmet events and shows dedicated to creative leisure pursuits, and the organisation, every year since 1990, of Taste Week, France’s best known national event devoted to helping people learn about taste.