The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
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Think of American food. In my generation, growing up in the '60s and '70s, Banquet Fried Chicken and TV dinners were the thing. Now people are back into roasting their own chickens, and TV dinners are a point of kitsch. It will be interesting to see what survives another hundred years.
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Twenty years ago if you were going to be a cook, it was because you didn't make it in the army. It was the last stop before you were on the street.
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If you approach cooking as a trade school, then you may not have as many interesting things to think about or do later on in life.
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