Some social theorists who specialize in the cultural connections of food say they think that the harried, time-starved American who craves kitchen convenience above all else is at least partly a marketing creation of a food industry eager to sell its profitable, but often unhealthy, prepared and processed products.
The greatest kitchen convenience was the death of the greengrocer, allowing harried professionals to keep perishables "fresh" for days at a time.
I completely understand a mom's need for kitchen convenience -- my career is partly devoted to it -- but instant mac and cheese, with all of its salt, preservatives, and food dyes like Yellow 5 and Yellow 6, typically added to the cheese mix for color, troubles me.
For example, "I will skip my kitchen convenience gadgets and drive-through food trips.
There are trucks and brick-and-mortar restaurants, kitchens in convenience stores and some truly fabulous unmarked stands, and many of them focus on iconic dishes from Baja to Jalisco, Puebla to Nayarit and beyond.
So they bought the Conoco station in Watauga (population 24,000) and built a full commercial kitchen inside its convenience store where a rotating hot dog warmer and slushy machine might normally be.
Last year Elisa Rapaport, 42, and her husband, Michael Schoenbaum, 40, hired Inscape Studio, a Washington architectural firm, to build a screened porch for their family's house in Bethesda, Md. They envisioned the porch as attached to their kitchen, both for convenience — to let them eat meals outside, mosquito-free — and because the kitchen offered the best views of their yard.
Marijuana has a reputation for making people dash to the kitchen (or the nearest convenience store).
The other shops along New Preston's short commercial strip that once carried everyday conveniences now feature kitchen goods, garden accessories, fine furniture, jewelry and antiques.
In "American Woman's Home", published in 1869, the Beecher sisters recommended a scientific approach to household management, designed with puritanical zeal to enhance the efficiency of a woman's work, and promote order.A full supply of all conveniences in the kitchen and cellar, and a place appointed for each article, very much facilitate domestic labour.
