“Today the average American spends a mere 27 minutes a day on food preparation (another four minutes cleaning up); that\u2019s less than half the time that we spent cooking and cleaning up when Julia [Child] arrived on our television screens. It\u2019s also less than half the time it takes to watch a single episode of \u201cTop Chef\u201d or \u201cChopped\u201d or \u201cThe Next Food Network Star.\u201d What this suggests is that a great many Americans are spending considerably more time watching images of cooking on television than they are cooking themselves \u2014 an increasingly archaic activity they will tell you they no longer have the time for.<\/p>\n
“What is wrong with this picture?”<\/p>\n
Why has the United States become a nation more inclined to watch people other people do things on television — in this instance, cook — than actually do something themselves? Michael Pollan ponders\u00a0the possibilities<\/a>, at length. (NYT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Today the average American spends a mere 27 minutes a day on food preparation (another four minutes cleaning up); that\u2019s less than half the time that we spent cooking and cleaning up when Julia [Child] arrived on our television screens. It\u2019s also less than half the time it takes to watch a single episode of … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[133,91],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-food-media","tag-michael-pollan","tag-new-york-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}