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Originally Posted by Pete And please don't use FNTV as a scapegoat for the decline in the culinary education of our society. They are a symptom, not the cause. |
Now, that sounds like it would be an interesting topic to discuss all on its own. I agree, food is no longer what it was. Family traditions and lifestyle and economy and refridgeration all have changed food so much in a very short time.
By ways of example. My mom and dad were bourn in 1941. My mom used a glass scrub board to wash laundry by hand untill her teens when her parents were able to afford a washing machine. She also bought things like chickens, from the market butcher. If she wanted that chicked dressed she had to pay an extra dollar, and often didn't have that much money, which ment it was up to her to kill and clean them herself. My fathers first job was as an ice cutter. Yes, that is exactly what he did, with a saw, on the lake, in winter. The ice that was cut was sold for iceboxes. He, and many people of his generation, didn't have an electric fridge.
I have a very hard time imagineing the life as kids they lived, especially concidering this is the life they lived post war here in Canada. The idea that if I wanted a carrot in winter I would have to go outside to a cold house to dig some carrots out of a sand box, and that by late winter they were pretty nasty..... *shakes head* Is it any wonder a whole generation pounced on things like TV dinners?
