Not cooking is a big mistake
Just two generations ago, preparing meals was as much a part of life as eating.
Now we’ve given up what is perhaps our best excuse to get together and spend time with the people we love—mealtime—and someone else stands at the stove.
We’re either watching cooks on TV like we would a spectator sport or grabbing grub, bagged, and eating it alone and on the go.
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Because not cooking is a big mistake—and it’s one that’s costing us money, good times, control, serenity and, yes, vastly better health.
I really agree that it is good to cook.
When I cook, I learn how to buy food, where it comes from, and how to prepare it.
Each time I eat, I understand all the work that is behind my meal and the cost of the food produced to feed me.
In the same way, the last book of Michael Pollan, Cooked, talks about the importance of cooking for healthy and more sustainable food habits:
The effects of not cooking are similarly far reaching.
Relying upon corporations to process our food means we consume large quantities of fat, sugar, and salt; disrupt an essential link to the natural world; and weaken our relationships with family and friends.
In fact, Cooked argues, taking back control of cooking may be the single most important step anyone can take to help make the American food system healthier and more sustainable.
Reclaiming cooking as an act of enjoyment and self-reliance, learning to perform the magic of these everyday transformations, opens the door to a more nourishing life.
Now we’ve given up what is perhaps our best excuse to get together and spend time with the people we love—mealtime—and someone else stands at the stove.
We’re either watching cooks on TV like we would a spectator sport or grabbing grub, bagged, and eating it alone and on the go.
...
Because not cooking is a big mistake—and it’s one that’s costing us money, good times, control, serenity and, yes, vastly better health.
I really agree that it is good to cook.
When I cook, I learn how to buy food, where it comes from, and how to prepare it.
Each time I eat, I understand all the work that is behind my meal and the cost of the food produced to feed me.
In the same way, the last book of Michael Pollan, Cooked, talks about the importance of cooking for healthy and more sustainable food habits:
The effects of not cooking are similarly far reaching.
Relying upon corporations to process our food means we consume large quantities of fat, sugar, and salt; disrupt an essential link to the natural world; and weaken our relationships with family and friends.
In fact, Cooked argues, taking back control of cooking may be the single most important step anyone can take to help make the American food system healthier and more sustainable.
Reclaiming cooking as an act of enjoyment and self-reliance, learning to perform the magic of these everyday transformations, opens the door to a more nourishing life.