"Steve Calvin" > wrote in message
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> With lives seemingly getting busier and busier do you see the end of
> "scratch" cooking in the future? Just looking backward, my Mother and
> especially my Grandmothers cooked everything from scratch. Breads, cakes,
> pies including the crusts, stews, soups, sauces etc...
>
> Today is seems as though the number of people who routinely cook from
> scratch is dwindling. People are migrating to canned stews, spaghetti
> sauces, sauces in general, soups, etc. I know quite a few people who
> don't cook, period. They either do take out, go out, TV-"dinners", frozen
> stuff like pot-pies, and even premade and frozen PB&J sandwiches for gawd
> sakes! Now I admit that I don't routinely make bread but I pretty much
> make much everything else "the old fashioned way."
>
> Anyone else noticing a decline in folks like us who enjoy cooking and make
> the time necessary to indulge ourselves?
>
> --
> Steve
>
> Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.
> Autograph your work with excellence.
>
We went to look at ranges at a owner-operated appliance store--the kind
where they have stuff on the floor but also have books that you can order
from. I was asking about a range and the first thing the owner asked me was
"Do you cook?" I must have looked startled, because he explained that he
had different ranges that he recommended to people that really cooked things
instead of those people that used them for heating foods. I had never
considered that concept before.
Janet