Gloria P wrote:

> 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.


Interestingly, there is a large and well - established grocery chain in
France that sells exclusively frozen food (I forget the name) and IIRC
France is McDonald's most profitable market...

Many of the French peeps that I have met prefer to entertain guests at a
restaurant instead of at home...not a problem when you have a plethora of
great eateries to choose from.


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Best
Greg