Comments on: The “hidden cost” of convenience (follow-up) http://goodmaneats.com/2009/10/12/the-hidden-cost-of-convenience-follow-up/ A Portland food blog Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:19:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: foozmeat http://goodmaneats.com/2009/10/12/the-hidden-cost-of-convenience-follow-up/comment-page-1/#comment-51 foozmeat Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:44:31 +0000 http://goodmaneats.com/?p=396#comment-51 @goodmaneats I think people eat out so much because they can't/won't plan ahead. Being stuck at home with no food or groceries is stressful! @goodmaneats I think people eat out so much because they can’t/won’t plan ahead. Being stuck at home with no food or groceries is stressful!

]]> By: Zachary http://goodmaneats.com/2009/10/12/the-hidden-cost-of-convenience-follow-up/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Zachary Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:00:51 +0000 http://goodmaneats.com/?p=396#comment-52 Some thoughts on this interesting debate: 1) It would be interesting to explore the link between the rise of suburbia and the invention of fast food in America. 2) The cost of living in America: Imagine a country in which families do not have to send both adults to work full time- What if the working week was shortened to twenty five or thirty hours a week like it is in France and Italy (two countries were "slow food" is deeply imbedded in the national culture)? Shortening the work week would also go a long way in boosting employment - but this is another argument for another blog. 3) What Jamie Oliver and Mark Bittman cannot do is perform an ethnography of What People in America Eat: why they eat what they eat? What they tell themselves about what they are eating? Food is a huge vehicle of cultural significance and it seems to me that understanding why people make the choices they do can help educators do their jobs. For instance: Why do people run to the fast food chains in the neighborhood that I work in on the first day of every month after they get their welfare checks? What are the class implications for slow food vs. fast food? What if instead of food stamps, people on welfare were enrolled in CSA's? love the blog Jared, onward! Some thoughts on this interesting debate:

1) It would be interesting to explore the link between the rise of suburbia and the invention of fast food in America.

2) The cost of living in America: Imagine a country in which families do not have to send both adults to work full time- What if the working week was shortened to twenty five or thirty hours a week like it is in France and Italy (two countries were “slow food” is deeply imbedded in the national culture)? Shortening the work week would also go a long way in boosting employment – but this is another argument for another blog.

3) What Jamie Oliver and Mark Bittman cannot do is perform an ethnography of What People in America Eat: why they eat what they eat? What they tell themselves about what they are eating? Food is a huge vehicle of cultural significance and it seems to me that understanding why people make the choices they do can help educators do their jobs. For instance: Why do people run to the fast food chains in the neighborhood that I work in on the first day of every month after they get their welfare checks? What are the class implications for slow food vs. fast food? What if instead of food stamps, people on welfare were enrolled in CSA’s?

love the blog Jared, onward!

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