>Americans don’t want to cook and never really have. Despite the nostalgic halo around home cooking, we have always seen mealtime mostly as a hurdle to clear, not as a cherished tradition. “Americans know the value of time too well to waste it at the table,” noted a visitor from England in a travel journal—in 1794.
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