What I found admirable is how seldom Mr. Harriott uses canned or packaged convenience foods.
Well, partly because we are all (even, sadly, the Italians) buying more packaged convenience foods: across Europe, the market is growing by 15% a year.
It's always a challenge, though, and I understand why some people rely so much on packaged convenience foods, especially if their cooking skills aren't such that cooking is easy for them.
Michelle Obama often explicitly tied the Obama administration's anti-childhood-obesity efforts to her own family's eating habits: After a wake-up call from their daughters' pediatrician, the Obamas shifted away from packaged convenience foods to healthier fare.
These sweet rewards, meanwhile, are often packaged convenience foods such as cookies, chips, soda or "fruit" snacks, which can total 300 to 500 calories or more, the researchers noted in the study.
"With industrialization," Garcia said, pointing back in history to the invention of the washing machine, the stove and packaged convenience foods, "there was this notion of what technology could do to improve the quality of your life.
Millennials, he said, appear to prefer food that is fresh and often local or in season instead of the fast food and packaged convenience foods that began to proliferate at the time their parents' generation — today's boomers — were themselves thirty-somethings.
Not only is a healthful plant-based diet less expensive at the grocery store (unless you go crazy for packaged convenience foods, of course), it saves you personally and saves us societally in health care and many other direct and indirect costs.
"If the fund industry is no longer the way to get packaging and convenience, they will lose the ability to control pricing of their intellectual content," just like recording companies, he said.
In the digital world, content itself is rarely what's most valuable what people pay for is packaging and convenience.
That's already happening on the Kindle again, readers are paying for packaging and convenience, not for content.
