Comments on: What is “Real” Cooking? http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/04/01/what-is-real-cooking/ Life, Literature, and the Subversive Power of Living Small Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:49:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jennifer http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/04/01/what-is-real-cooking/comment-page-1/#comment-40691 Jennifer Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:30:23 +0000 http://livingsmallblog.com/?p=2318#comment-40691 I would guess that if it's only marginally more time-intensive or labor-intensive to "cook from scratch" than it is to cook a dinner picked up at Trader Joe's, then people don't feel it's "real" cooking. I might also guess that if people discovered that cooking was easy, they'd wonder why they spent so much money at Trader Joe's. Or restaurants, or wherever. Funny: what's hard (or at least time-intensive) isn't the cooking; what's hard is the clean-up! I would guess that if it’s only marginally more time-intensive or labor-intensive to “cook from scratch” than it is to cook a dinner picked up at Trader Joe’s, then people don’t feel it’s “real” cooking. I might also guess that if people discovered that cooking was easy, they’d wonder why they spent so much money at Trader Joe’s. Or restaurants, or wherever.

Funny: what’s hard (or at least time-intensive) isn’t the cooking; what’s hard is the clean-up!

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