Giusi wrote:

>
> In my experience cookery is done with considerable respect in most homes,
> but home cookery is not at all like haute cuisine. Many city kitchens are
> tiny and underequipped by our standards, like no oven? Cassoulet might be
> made at your family's country house, but it would sound absurd to many to
> make it in a Paris apartment.
>
> Things are altering, and maybe even faster than here, but instant foods
> don't have the same hold in France or Italy that they have in the US.
>
>

Do you suppose it may be because most French or Italian women don't work
40+ hours per week and 50 weeks per year? It would not surprise me if
the lack of leisure (or family) time is one factor.

gloria p