Yo, this is Grams. I thought of you all when reading an article today. Congrats on going against the grain of American food culture today! Here's an excerpt:
Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch
...Cooking is no longer obligatory, and for many people, women especially, that has been a blessing. But perhaps a mixed blessing, to judge by the culture’s continuing, if not deepening, fascination with the subject. It has been easier for us to give up cooking than it has been to give up talking about it — and watching it.
Today the average American spends a mere 27 minutes a day on food preparation (another four minutes cleaning up); that’s less than half the time that we spent cooking and cleaning up when Julia arrived on our television screens. It’s also less than half the time it takes to watch a single episode of “Top Chef” or “Chopped” or “The Next Food Network Star.” What this suggests is that a great many Americans are spending considerably more time watching images of cooking on television than they are cooking themselves — an increasingly archaic activity they will tell you they no longer have the time for.
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FULL ARTICLE AT: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/magazine/02cooking-t.html?_r=1&hpw
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