Bad foods have a purpose for convenience, affordability and simply for desperate cooks. Do you want pancakes? Turn on the microwave. Do you want muffins or donuts? Some stores even have windows through. Coffee? Hey, we all know where we're headed for a big café con leche mocha. Lunch time McDonald's here we are (hamburger, plastic cheese, large soft drinks and chips, extra ketchup). Or worse, the company's vending machines. Maybe they have these peanut butter cookies. Dinner? You can not beat pizza or chicken. Eating in the car, although dangerous and messy, is justified when you can not wait to get home and unfold the forks and towels.
The pseudo-healthy food stores have exploded, the most popular way are the juice bars, where you can buy a smoothie loaded with fruit (and sugar), maybe add a small sorbet, and take a spoonful of protein. Hello, my , I eat healthy. Wow, my line is behind me. And then there are these Chinese food stalls, quick and fast, with vegetables and meats. Well, yeah, they're drowning in bread crumbs, cooking oil and monosodium glutamate, but it's ... well ... you know the rest. Where would the Americans be without their beloved pizza? Loaded with sodium, fat and white flour, better throw some vegetables just to balance that food. And yes, extra pepperoni, please. It's pretty healthy, right? Tomato sauce is a vegetable.
That may be the reason why trained and creative chefs have become such celebrities. How we like to see them turn their magic, preparing a delicious meal in their half-hour show with healthy ingredients collected fresh from their glorious and well-tended gardens. Round with a glass or two of good wine. Bring back the history buffs to those incredible, high-calorie dinners we read that were once served by third-rate gourmet Thomas Jefferson. Of course, there were no dishes cooked at that time, everything was fresh, and Tom had a French chef enslaved in a warm home. But for most of us who have their noses glued to the windows of the big houses occupied by famous chefs and their immaculate kitchens, we can only fantasize while we sit in front of the television drinking our nuked dinner and a beer can. Fish sticks for children.
Weekends are a paradise for food. Flavors of all flavors, cheese sauces, soft drinks, beer, hot dogs, canned chili and many cookies and ice cream bought in stores. It is not necessary to make a dinner with all that nibbling. But if you're still hungry, just call the local pizzeria. Deserves a treat, and has eaten knotty dinners all week, so how about the freshly prepared foods that arrive in 30 minutes guaranteed? Maybe some buffalo chicken wings for more protein. Then, on Sunday, brown and serve sausages, frozen waffles and lots of syrup. Maybe a toast made with white bread and a lot of jam. Yes, it is a feast for the eyes. Later, a light lunch of sub-shop sandwiches, lots of mayonnaise. Salad, no problem, prepackaged lettuce drowns in a sweet and very oily vinaigrette (and maybe only a few croutons).
We often wonder if famous chefs really cook like this all the time when no one is watching. Or draw the curtains, surreptitiously boil a box of macaroni and cheese, then crumble on the couch with their bathrobes, drop the crumbs of potatoes and wash them with glue (or better, wine). pitcher). We applaud them, we envy them, we love them for neighbors, but when everything is said and done, we really see them as entertainment ("do not try this at home"), and we know deep down hearts, bad food matters. That's what it is for dinner.
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