- Eating at home more? Well, celebrate that fact you are being both frugal and more healthy.
From Joe: Are you eating out less because of your new diet? Or because our new economy demands more frugal living?
Are you feeling deprived because you miss those frequent trips to restaurants? Professional chef Sara Jenkins might make you feel better about eating more meals at home:
I’m perturbed that people have gotten so turned around that they think restaurant food is the best food, and that today’s modern, self -aware “foodie” thinks that the highest level of cooking is to cook restaurant-style food in the home. Even in the finest restaurants, restaurant food, while delicious and deserving of its place as entertainment and theater, is really not the best food at all. It’s over-sauced and over-salted and over-rich, because the only thing restaurant chefs have to worry about is that the food tastes exquisite on the table. They don’t have to worry about whether you should eat less salt and fat or eat more vegetables or if you are consuming trans fats or saturated fat or petroleum. Even very good restaurants buy industrial commodity chicken and veal bones for their stock, and bulk up the plate with cheap commodity vegetables. What you pay for in most restaurants is for the transformation from ordinary into good or exquisite. And one of the ways that food is transformed is through copious amounts of butter, salt, and stocks.
Via LifeHacker: http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/06/why-home-style-cooking-will-always-beat-restaurant-style/240195/
Hi Eileen
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Hi Eileen,
Cool Post, One of life’s many pleasures is the ability to go out to an establishment and enjoy a prepared meal. But since the economy is in the pits, I was curious if more people are doing at home cooking for themselves?
Nice One!