Alanna’s recent blog post, entitled “Slow Food: a great idea, in theory…” describes how she uses the much needed break in her busy schedule to make dinner and catch up with a friend. She discusses how she chose an easily modifiable recipe to allow whatever was around the house to be used for ingredients. Alanna states that whole experience was a nice way to catch up, made better by the fact that preparation, eating, and clean-up was a relatively quick and easy process. The blog continues by addressing how it is easy to understand how processed foods can multiply in one’s household when schedules get busy. After all, many of these products were made to be eaten fast or on the go, which can be convenient when there is not a lot of time to be spent on cooking. Alanna describes the recent backlash on this frenzied way of dining called the Slow Food movement, and that while she agrees with sitting down and enjoying her food, she is not quite sure how well it actually works in practice.
I would have to agree with what Alanna is saying here. It is always a great experience to sit down with friends and family and actually enjoy our meals. The accompanied fun stories to catch you up on how everyone’s life is going make things even better. But let’s face it, the lifestyle most people keep these days is the go, go, go kind. There is not a lot of time to sit down and enjoy food, despite how much we may want to. So while this may be a great idea in theory, it may be difficult to apply it to real life.
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