From: Gary Boyd (g.dboyd@verizon.net)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 09:34:40 CST
Alan Hamm wrote:
> Does anyone else find that there is a whole lot less cooking in
> scouting today than there used to be? With high tech stoves and fire
> bans and packaged food so readily available, it seems that learning to
> cook in scouting is becoming a lost art. My cooking training and even
> more importantly, my pot and dishwashing training is a major asset in
> today's world.
I really don't think that I am that much older than the average on this
list. My Sixth Edition Boy Scout Handbook says this: "Camping and
Cooking go together like ham and eggs - when you have mastered the
requirements for those merit badges, you can make yourself at home
anywhere in the open. Both of these merit badges are required for Eagle
Scout rank." (page 370) Cooking was one of the first MBs that my
scoutmaster had us earn. So exactly when did the requirement change,
dropping Cooking MB for one of the (my opinion) much less important
badges? Now it seems rare to go to an Eagle Scout CoH and see Cooking
on the young man's sash.
If anyone has a petition to National to bring back Cooking as a required
MB count me in as a signer.
Gary Boyd
Troop 151 CC
Crew 151 CC
Georgetown, Texas
www.troop151.org
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