RE: Mother Jones/Alternet On How Big Food destroyed Small Home Econ.
I donno... i mean how stoopid can people be? When, at 21, i escaped from all the mental institutions to which i had been consigned, i started living on my own. The first things i bought (with the help of Anne Strasbourg) were a skillet, a pot and a colander. Then i bought the "Joy of Cooking." :)
It simply never occurred to me to buy crap-in-a-box. In the first place, CIB was expensive. You pay for the box and for the processing, ya know. Although i was free at last, i was poor. In the second place, crap in the box tastes like ... well... shit, to be frank. Did a Swanson's Hearty Meal ever taste like it looked on the package?
I experimented with my own evolving culinary style which was kind of fun. But for the most part i was busy with other things and didn't spend much time playing chef. I worked out a set of standard of eat-byes which i could rustle up in 10 to 15 minutes max. I won't go into all the details; but one fairly common standard was Slab o Steak N' Salad with one full loaf of sourdough and real butter. I mean what's so hard about that?
(Oh and the salad was with olive oil and vinegar or lemon -- not the bottled slime called "dressing".)
I donno... i mean how stoopid can people be? When, at 21, i escaped from all the mental institutions to which i had been consigned, i started living on my own. The first things i bought (with the help of Anne Strasbourg) were a skillet, a pot and a colander. Then i bought the "Joy of Cooking." :)
It simply never occurred to me to buy crap-in-a-box. In the first place, CIB was expensive. You pay for the box and for the processing, ya know. Although i was free at last, i was poor. In the second place, crap in the box tastes like ... well... shit, to be frank. Did a Swanson's Hearty Meal ever taste like it looked on the package?
I experimented with my own evolving culinary style which was kind of fun. But for the most part i was busy with other things and didn't spend much time playing chef. I worked out a set of standard of eat-byes which i could rustle up in 10 to 15 minutes max. I won't go into all the details; but one fairly common standard was Slab o Steak N' Salad with one full loaf of sourdough and real butter. I mean what's so hard about that?
(Oh and the salad was with olive oil and vinegar or lemon -- not the bottled slime called "dressing".)
