Step 1: Find your kitchen.

Cooking has really changed in our lifetimes and the lifetimes of our parents and grandparents.  It used to be something that wasn't really thought about very much. Our grandparents mostly just prepared something for dinner that was based on what they had eaten as children, usually culturally influenced "standard" dishes.  Since the 1960s, what it meant to cook has changed dramatically.  At times it had been such a chore and women felt that they had to bear the responsibility of all of the shopping and cooking.  This burden, in a time when woman were also working, led to the idea that the quicker and the easier the meal the better.  

The dawn of the prepared foods.

What you eat (and buy) matters

We live in a world where health care costs are skyrocketing, where industrial chemicals are making their way into everything (not the least of which is breastmilk), where many of us work more, have more "stuff", but are less happy. 

We live in a world where farms, as we knew them, are disappearing,where most of our food is picked well before it is ripe and imported from all over the world, where most of us do not know the people we buy our food from, and where it is harder and harder to support a family in a rural community.  We live in a world where a large portion of our food comes out of a factory, where we can't understand the ingredient labels and where our hamburgers are made mostly from corn products.