Alex Birch calls for an unusual revolution in his latest column:

One of the reasons people suffer from low self-esteem today is that they have less control over their own lives. The nanny state takes cares of our children, the media tells us what to think, and the supermarkets supply us with every product we could ever need. What if we'd start to take responsibility for our lives again? Let's start with the basics; how many people today know how to cook their own food? Surprisingly few. If it's out of sheer laziness or lack of knowledge, I don't know, but it seems to me that we can do a lot better than this.

Read his column here: I Call For a Cooking Revolution