And home economics classes have disappeared from the public schools.
I collected some great (and simple) recipes in home ec class that I use 25 years later.
I don't think it's always about family training though. My grandmother was a fantastic cook, my own mother, a stay at home mom could burn water, she was that bad and she tortured us with truly bad daily meals until I learned to cook to protect us all.
Too many A$$hoL& "College Prep" course offered to too many skulls full of mush out there.