| People are busier today than ever in history. | | | | all day affair. With more at home spouses, this |
| People do more and more, which compensates | | | | was hard but not out of the question. But as |
| for the speed modern technology brings to tasks. | | | | people began to realize they wanted more from |
| What suffers is home life. People have less | | | | life than cooking and cleaning every day, more |
| energy to spend around the house. That includes | | | | and more pre-packaged and pre-prepared foods |
| meals. Making dinner recipes easy has become a | | | | began to appear. Cake baking, for example, slowly |
| holy grail. It's nice to know there are a lot of ideas | | | | converted from mixing flour, eggs, vanilla, milk, |
| around for quick meals. | | | | carefully melted chocolate and many many other |
| It was all by hand cooking in the old days. Grinding | | | | ingredients to opening a box and mixing in some |
| meat into casings was the way to make sausage. | | | | eggs and milk. It's now a simple matter to bake a |
| When they ate pasta they used home made | | | | cake. Far less time is required before a cake can |
| noodles and home made sauce made from | | | | be enjoyed. Change has happened. |
| tomatoes and other ingredients. Cooking was an | | | | |