The episode of Cooked: Water was not what I expected. I was wanting more about how water is involved in cooking and how it effects food. He did mention in the episode that water is more of a recent cooking technique due to the fact they had to create pots to cook the food in. The use of water is mind blowing because it can completely change the taste of food; it can combine many different flavors together to create a new and delicious flavor, it mentions that when dealing with water it takes time, which is something Americans don’t have and what the women in India do have. Americans don’t want to have to take the time to take an hour of out their day to make a healthy, home cooked meal rather than going through the drive in to get a quick family meal.
This episode made me think about how much we actually do eat out compared to other countries like India. Towards the end of the episode he shows a big family get together and that made me realize that some only think they have to cook when it’s a family get together. What’s the difference between having a meal with your whole family and having a nightly home cooked meal with your household family? There is no difference to me; one should want to cook for their family no matter who is going to be eating it.
With that being said, foodways is a completely different story here in America than it is in India or any other country. In India they cherish they food more and take more pride in the hands that prepared it. Here in America, we don’t care who made it as long as we didn’t get our hands dirty and didn’t take any time out of our day. I didn’t know that in India they start teaching the daughters of the family at a very young age how to cook so that when they get married they will be prepared to cook for their husbands and family. Here in America, that is not a priority; some times the mom in the household don’t know how to cook, its the husband that is doing any of the cooking. Lastly, it makes me embarrassed to be in a generation where cooking is not seen as normal, but instead going out to eat for every meal is the norm.
Happiness Is In The Food 