The pre-dinner scramble. (Photo by Jenny Livingston.) Last week on my Babble blog I asked readers what they thought of Michael Ruhlman's HuffPo rant about parents being too "busy" to cook for their kids. Actually, that was only a subset of the rant. Most of Ruhlman's anger was directed at food editors, cookbook authors, and Food Network stars (even Jamie!) for giving rise to the 30-minute-meal industrial complex...thereby validating the message that parents are too busy to cook, thereby placing those busy, unimaginative parents at the mercy of the convenient, pre-packaged, get-it-to-the-table-fast world of processed food. I wasn't surprised that it touched a lot of nerves -- and I encourage you to read the entire post as well as the comments that piled up over on Babble -- but here on DALS, I feel compelled to write a little more it; or, more specifically, about these two quotes because I can't stop thinking about them:
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The pre-dinner scramble. (Photo by Jenny Livingston.) Last week on my Babble blog I asked readers what they thought of Michael Ruhlman's HuffPo rant about parents being too "busy" to cook for their kids. Actually, that was only a subset of the rant. Most of Ruhlman's anger was directed at food editors, cookbook authors, and Food Network stars (even Jamie!) for giving rise to the 30-minute-meal industrial complex...thereby validating the message that parents are too busy to cook, thereby placing those busy, unimaginative parents at the mercy of the convenient, pre-packaged, get-it-to-the-table-fast world of processed food. I wasn't surprised that it touched a lot of nerves -- and I encourage you to read the entire post as well as the comments that piled up over on Babble -- but here on DALS, I feel compelled to write a little more it; or, more specifically, about these two quotes because I can't stop thinking about them: