Re:By becoming a cook, you can leave processed foods behind
by jvdongen on Saturday January 01, 2011 @03:14PM
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Interesting data point - discussing this over dinner made us arrive at France as the only suspected exception in Europe, but apparently it's not.
Did Tony indicate what initiated the change?
Re:By becoming a cook, you can leave processed foods behind
by bambax on Saturday January 01, 2011 @03:26PM
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Exception in which way? The Germans seem to do a lot of cooking too, from what I know, as well as Spaniards or Italians.
Re:By becoming a cook, you can leave processed foods behind
by jvdongen on Saturday January 01, 2011 @03:43PM
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Exception in the way that we suspected that if there would be a european country where eating outdoors would be more common than a home cooked meal, it would be France.
But that was mostly based on observations during business trips to France - which most likely skewed our arguments quite a bit.
Over here people invite their friends for dinner all the time, and it would be beyond unacceptable to serve anything not prepared by the host/hostess.
Reading the great Tony Bourdain I learned that what happened in the US happened after WWII; before that time the US was a pretty "normal" country, food-wise.