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Cooking is certainly becoming more and more of a lost art in most house hold and the reasons are various. The primary reason of course being time. Many people are simply too tired at the end of the day to slave over a hot stove and cook a decent meal. Also, lets face it. It much easier and often cheaper to go through a drive through at McDonalds, KFC, Taco Bell or wherever and get a value meal, which is often cheaper that what ingredients would cost you to cook a meal at home.

Let's also not forget the invention of the microwave, which allows you to heat up a frozen dinner in five minutes or so. This invention, more than anything else, has contributed to the demise of an original cooked meal.

I personally like to cook for myself as much as possible, because A) I enjoy it and B) you can eat healthier when you cook from scratch. For me a good cooked meal is a sense of accomplishment...a job well done. I enjoy cooking meals myself and I enjoy eating home cooked meals from others such as my mom :-)

A lot of the passion/know how to cook begins from parents who cook often and who teach their children how to cook, and pass down recipes from generation to generation. If the parents don't cook and eat meals out or bring home take-out every night, then chances are their children won't cook either. I was fortunate enough to have parents who cooked at home all of the time (we hardly ever ate out)and I learned the basics of cooking at a relatively young age, and continue to cook as much as I can today. I get inspiration from such sources and the food network, foodtv.com and recipes in magazines like Men's Health and Southern Living.

Cooking is becoming a lost art, because of the ease/cost to eat out fast food or fast casual, and also fine dining, as well as prevalent use of microwaving. I do not think cooking will ever die though because it is a fun way to be creative and healthy as well as keep family traditions alive!

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