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Death of the family dinner


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I write because I can type. I can type because I have a keyboard.

I am a new age Australian resident that is experiencing this new continent with a fresh set of eyes. 

I write on a wide range of topics. Well, I write on food. There you have it, I write on a wide range of food as well. 


When was the last time your family bonded over a home-cooked meal?

My wife and I have been making a genuine effort to eat at home in recent weeks.

Bonding over family dinner is a rarity these days.

Bonding over family dinner is a rarity these days. Picture: Shutterstock

We are doing away with the convenience of ordering in. One of the main reasons is to lose some weight. Though I am pretty much happy with my tummy, my wife thinks otherwise. The other reason is the very fact that eating at home has now become a luxury.

This got me thinking. So I asked a few people what they thought about the whole situation of not cooking at home these days. I found three interesting points to this. Everything else is an offshoot of it.

  • Both members of a household tend to work these days
  • Many of them are single or do not have kids
  • It seems uneconomical to cook at home unless you have people over
  • When I was a child, both my parents used to work. We rarely went out for a meal unless it was the weekend or some special day. Home-cooked meals generally meant family time. No phones, no computers, no nothing. Just conversation.

    Today, conversation has been replaced with the next article on your Facebook feed or Kindle. We are coming to an age where we don’t have to be in the same room anymore to have a face-to-face conversation.

    We don’t even have to make a meal. Deliveroo, menulog, UberEATS and other applications have ensured that we never have to step into a kitchen again.

    But then again, was cooking at home all about making something to eat?

    It never was. It was the time that families bonded. They had conversations, they shared opinions or advice on various matters. It didn’t matter if supper was prepared to a chef’s standard. It rarely was.

    Families were closer. Today we don’t have that luxury. If a relationship is broken, we don’t try and fix it. We replace it. It's all a bit sad.

    I shudder at the day when I have to stop making food and have everything from the tube like an astronaut. Come to think of it, that could definitely be in my future.

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