re: #213 SanFranciscoZionist

There was a piece in one of the local tabloid papers a while ago by a young mom in the Bay Area who described slowly going insane trying to make some from-scratch organic feast for her kids. Someone wrote in and pointed out that ‘organic’, or ‘healthy’ or ‘locavore’ does not need to mean complicated time-consuming cooking. I think that’s some of it. We have limited time available, and I think for a lot of people, the food they know how to COOK is time-consuming. If we’re going to start eating real food agian, we need to know how to make fast real food.

I love Crock Pots!

Definitely. That’s why I think the food culture that my generation grew up with is part of the problem. Cooking trends when I grew up were from Julia Child making fancy french sauces or big 4 course traditional American meals. People don’t have the time or skill to do that stuff anymore so they buy processed frozen versions.