Baking And Cooking
The culinary arts have undergone a curious transformation. When they were widely practiced as a necessary part of life, meals were hearty, thoroughly satisfying to the inner man, but nearly always without flair. Now that food preparation has become a mass business, the few individual artists of the menu have raised their craft to an extraordinary level. Food, of course is just as necessary as ever, but the average housewife has been granted so many short cuts by way of kitchen gadgets, packaged dinners and take-out meals that she need no longer slave all day over a hot stove. She has lost some of her homey talent, and left gourmet cooking to the chefs and baking to the nationwide companies that specialize in services that guarantee "less work for mother."So now is the time for all good housewives, husbands, bachelors and career girls to go back to the kitchen with a new thought in mind: the pursuit of an immensely satisfying hobby. Many people have already seen the light; oddly enough, the majority of them are men. Experiments in the kitchen can be tremendous fun if you are not obliged by circumstance to prepare five hefty meals a day and keep turning out loaves of bread and endless pans of cake and muffins.
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August 20, 2008