The Decline and Fall of Home Cooking

Some chef is teaching a housewife to cook swordfish wrapped in Prosiutto. This summed up the problem of cooking shows, particularly those on Foodtv. Here you have a woman who has no idea how to cook fish for her family and she is taught to cook an expansive restaurant dish. If the lesson is successful, she can, maybe once a year, impress a handful of her dearest. All the other meal will make up of badly burnt tuna casserole! Shouldn’t she be learning to sauté white fish or fry some catfish? She needs basic home cooking help, not trying to become a one-dish restaurant cook. This is why all the cooking show only contributes to the decline of home cooking. All the viewers have are a whole of lot of fancy ideas without knowing how to boil an egg.