"Gregory Morrow" > ha scritto nel messaggio
> 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?
>>>
>>> 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.

They DO work 40 hours a week here and 36 in France, but they get a month's
vacation. Think what happens to unemployment if you implement those
standards. It's way too expensive here for women not to work.

> 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...

That's true, but a lot of it is not prepared food, but ingredients. That's
how you can see that it is changing. We have an all-frozen seafood shop in
my town.