The Food We Like to Talk About vs. The Food We Actually Make
Apparently in the kitchen, we're all talk and no action.
Slate reporter Nicholas Hune-Brown recently wrote about the huge gap between the ultra-foodie recipes we like to talk about and the actual recipes we're searching for on sites like Allrecipes.com, the most popular English-language food website in the world.
"What’s remarkable isn’t so much Allrecipes’ dominance but how distant the site feels from the food conversation in the media," Hune-Brown writes.
So it's time for confessions. Listeners call in with their guilty pleasure, totally down-scale recipes. And feel free to keep tweeting recipes at @BrianLehrer.
Dan Pashman, host of The Sporkful, joins to talk about our foodie vs. lazy nature.
@BrianLehrer bouillon cubes instead of fancy chicken stock - all the way ! 🐔🐔🐔
— Justyna K (@justyniak) May 20, 2016
@BrianLehrer love queso w jar salsa and velveeta-currently live in Europe & can't get the fake cheese here! No cr of mushroom soup, either!
— Kathi Königer (@kkdland) May 20, 2016
@BrianLehrer my step-mother used to make us peanut butter, pickles, mayo, lettuce, and cheese sandwiches.
— Robert Meyers (@robertmeyers) May 20, 2016
@BrianLehrer enchiladas made with cream of chicken soup #midwest
— amber sather (@amberdsather) May 20, 2016
@BrianLehrer as a kid - tuna casserole (or 'Splot'). Was just looking for photos for a curry recipe. Most look like dogfood but so tasty.
— AllTooContrary (@alltoocontrary) May 20, 2016
@BrianLehrer
— SharonFrost (@SharonFrost) May 20, 2016
Potato chip, tunafish, mushroom soup etc. casserole was a linchpin of my 50s childhood - ubiquitous in S. FL.
