Within the past week I was reading or heard of a different article on French cuisine: it is fast disappearing. The lunches are shorter, the time spent preparing food is diminishing, and so on.
It is actually the old Sci Fi notion of meal-in-a-tablet to save time; we shall have to be so busy trying to make our slender livings, that we shall all eat pig snouts and cow udders in a bun...on the run...with a dab of coleslaw on the side! (apologies to The Flintstones)
This is truly distressing news. Why is it that the U.S. seems to export only the most unsavory (and I guess that pun is intended here) aspects of its culture? Right, the rest of the world really needs to have our frenetic pursuit of lucre to the exclusion of almost all civilized and wholesome practices such as a leisurely meal and a mid-day siesta.
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Within the past week I was reading or heard of a different article on French cuisine: it is fast disappearing.
The lunches are shorter, the time spent preparing food is diminishing, and so on.
It is actually the old Sci Fi notion of meal-in-a-tablet to save time; we shall have to be so busy trying to make our slender livings, that we shall all eat pig snouts and cow udders in a bun...on the run...with a dab of coleslaw on the side!
(apologies to The Flintstones)
This is truly distressing news. Why is it that the U.S. seems to export only the most unsavory (and I guess that pun is intended here) aspects of its culture? Right, the rest of the world really needs to have our frenetic pursuit of lucre to the exclusion of almost all civilized and wholesome practices such as a leisurely meal and a mid-day siesta.
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