100 years ago the average time to cook a meal was an hour, to the modern day person taking 15 minutes out of there life to heat food seems an overwhelming inconvenience. Supermarkets bully high street shops into closing down with their vast tarmac savannas and ‘low’ prices, but what effect has this had on us consumers? We strife through the aisles looking for something to fill our stomachs with; our only objectives being price and speed. No wonder the UK spends an estimated 1.8 billion pounds a year on ready meals; surprisingly this doesn’t come as a shock to most of us.
But the issue of time doesn’t have to result in watching Jamie Oliver dribble in pictures of his latest book, instead children should be forced to take food technology at least up to a GCSE level. Perhaps this would lead not to an interpretation of cooking as adding a premade sauce to pasta or sprinkling watercress over an M&S ready meal.
The future of food doesn’t look like farm produce for all, instead mega factories churning out slop, but it will be able to be heated in two minutes so that makes it okay.
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