My sample of the US is not large, say between 50 and 100 households in a country of 300 million persons. It tends to be skewed towards the more educated middle to upper middle class. (That is, towards more or less the NY Times demographic.) But the great majority of those households have at least one adult who cooks decently. The person I can think of who goes through the most carry-out lives the sort of frazzled suburban life where the kids have lessons, practices, etc. at frequent intervals, requiring a lot of driving.
And somebody seems to be cooking in the poorer neighborhood a short walk away. The grocery stores have fresh vegetables, meat, 10-pound bags of rice, and so on, along with the canned stuff.
I wonder whether the article isn't aimed at readers in their 20s, on their own for a little while, but not really accustomed to a settled life.
(After looking at dhughes's post: my sample is also skewed toward the baby boomers. Caveat lector.)
And somebody seems to be cooking in the poorer neighborhood a short walk away. The grocery stores have fresh vegetables, meat, 10-pound bags of rice, and so on, along with the canned stuff.
I wonder whether the article isn't aimed at readers in their 20s, on their own for a little while, but not really accustomed to a settled life.
(After looking at dhughes's post: my sample is also skewed toward the baby boomers. Caveat lector.)