It is generally true, due to a bunch of factors. Personally, I’ve observed 2 factors:
a lot of culinary tradition was lost by the boomers and their parents due to the advent of mass-produced, packaged food and the Great Depression. A lot of very basic, holistic techniques like making broth, rendering fat, became less common as magazine recipes, refrigeration, and boxed food encouraged discrete “buy x y z for recipe A” instead of having an assortment of preserved veggies/meats, broth, lard from previous days etc, to work with and learn from. I was genuinely confused to find my dad had to teach himself a lot of it in his 20s and my mom never learned.
Economic/cultural history. A lot of families didn’t see making food better as worth sparing any effort or time on. My grandma’s boiled veggies and potatoes, no seasoning, and meat fried in a pan, no sesoning, eaten and cleaned up as quickly as possible come to mind.
Can confirm 1, dad grew up on TV dinners and canned food; and somehow Grandma thought it was ok to add ketchup to make spaghetti sauce. That second one might be 2, too, actually.
Huh?
White people can’t cook is the joke.
Honestly, seeing what some people call seasoning, they have a point.
It is generally true, due to a bunch of factors. Personally, I’ve observed 2 factors:
a lot of culinary tradition was lost by the boomers and their parents due to the advent of mass-produced, packaged food and the Great Depression. A lot of very basic, holistic techniques like making broth, rendering fat, became less common as magazine recipes, refrigeration, and boxed food encouraged discrete “buy x y z for recipe A” instead of having an assortment of preserved veggies/meats, broth, lard from previous days etc, to work with and learn from. I was genuinely confused to find my dad had to teach himself a lot of it in his 20s and my mom never learned.
Economic/cultural history. A lot of families didn’t see making food better as worth sparing any effort or time on. My grandma’s boiled veggies and potatoes, no seasoning, and meat fried in a pan, no sesoning, eaten and cleaned up as quickly as possible come to mind.
Can confirm 1, dad grew up on TV dinners and canned food; and somehow Grandma thought it was ok to add ketchup to make spaghetti sauce. That second one might be 2, too, actually.
Also, and in addition.
Seasoning = salt.
Almost every aspect of this video is so annoying but I refer to it all the time
That was annoying but correct
dear god the comment section ☢️
https://macattackcle.com/blogs/mac-chat/the-black-history-of-mac-and-cheese