American cooking, it seems to me, is going in two directions. The first is that there is less and less family cooking, and what there is is based largely on convenience foods. Fast food is the new culinary wave; as who could doubt it, traveling on the nation’s highways? (Fast food places are becoming classier too, to compete with restaurants.) What can beat taking a family of four to McDonald’s or some such place, where you can feed the whole lot for around $10? Pa doesn’t have to pay much, Ma doesn’t have to cook, and the kids are in culinary heaven . . . The other way is toward fancy cooking, at least for company; however, there is a rash of fancy new convenience and frozen foods to prove that this is just another aspect of the same trend. One way or the other, pre-prepared food is coming to be America’s basic fare.
However, some people still cook
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