Taught in the 80s and relevant now...

The National Science Learning centres have added a interesting item to their online archive.
It is the Nuffield Home Economics course materials (Student & teachers guides) aimed at 11-14 and 14-16 year-olds and taught in the '80s.
On opening the first page, I was struck by their discussion of the Food Security agenda (although it wasn't known by that term then?). The mechanism? Examination of the ingredients list on a tin of Baked Beans (A common 'english' food item - advertising jingle "A million house-wives everyday pick a tin of beans and say..."). From this starting point they illustrate the global sourcing of ingredients required to produce this processed food. It also has relevancy for the food safety angle of the mixing of ingredients and the contamination risks and the process of canning as a means of food preservation.
Later on it brings in the physics of cooking with conduction, convection and radiation as well as discussing models of solids, liquids and gases (excellent!).
Later chapters discuss nutrition, digestion and the relationship between food and health.