article_snippet: At 17 I went away to Pau in the South of France for a few months to study domestic science, including cleaning windows with newspaper and water, while living with a Catholic family with ten children.
article_snippet: The TV chef had only been introduced to domestic science the year before.
article_snippet: But I was in the first bunch of pupils who could choose between Latin and maths and domestic science... and there was a brand new domestic science department.