/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10686818
So now we're moving the goalposts. Gotcha.

>>9439367
I never said anything about it happening in one generation, anon. How long it took varies greatly by locale.

In the US, for example, you had a massive loss of cooking skill after WWII due to a variety of factors: the women were all working while the men were out at war. massive amounts of cheap processed food (canned, TV dinners, etc.) flooded the market. advertising of the era preached that cooking was drudgery and instead the "modern woman" should let machines do all the work while they dressed up and went to cocktail parties instead.

That wasn't much of a factor elsewhere in the world. In much of Europe there was no cheap industrialized food available, so people did the same things they always did--cooked at home from scratch.

But as industrial food processing became more prevalent, cheap fast food became more widely available in other countries, etc, the same sorts of things happened there, it was just a bit later.

A 1950's housewife ducked out on cooking because canned food was there and she wanted to go out and gossip with her lady friends. A millennial might be using fast food and facebook instead of pic related and "tupperware parties" but the basic principle is the same: distractions and easy alternatives.