The world is changing. With him, our traditional dishes and eating habits have changed. If earlier on each stove a saucepan with soup was warmed up at lunchtime, now there are, at best, dumplings from a pack.
At worst: we heat something quick (pasta with sausage, buckwheat with stew, etc.) in the microwave.
Suck badly where they switched to the fashionable Western style of eating dry food. That is, without soups at all, when the first course does not appear on the table even once a week.
What happened to our usual soups? Where do they disappear to? And why did we stop cooking them every day? Hospitals, schools, kindergartens and canteens do not count.
No, of course, there are also families and kitchens where cabbage soup or noodles soup is prepared. But there are other reasons: the first courses are economical and satisfying, there are children or elderly (sick) people in the house.
In fact, according to statistics, in Russia over the past 10 years, soup is prepared no more than 1-2 times a week, and only 40% of the country's residents. Others do it even less often, or do not do it at all.
And the point is this. We started to live better. Oddly enough, but it is. If in Soviet times a large saucepan of cabbage soup came out to the budget much cheaper than one dinner with cutlets and mashed potatoes for a family of four. But now there is no particular difference, given the range of ready-made cutlets (sausages, pork sausages, etc.) in stores and the cost of a soup bone with vegetables for cabbage soup.
Although, what is there in these cutlets, one technologist of the meat-packing plant knows.
Again, you could eat Soviet cabbage soup for three days, and sometimes four, if you had somewhere to take the pan out into the cold. We ate those soups not only for lunch, but also for dinner. Many have already forgotten, but it was still some 25-40 years ago.
We remember that such an abundance of products was not on sale, we all ate modestly, albeit satisfyingly.
Reflecting on the topic "why do soups leave our kitchens", one quote immediately comes to mind.
William Pokhlebkin, "Secrets of Good Food":
Only in a solid, permanent family do they eat soup regularly. The lack of soup in the house is one of the first indicators and signs of family trouble.
And the author of this statement is absolutely right. Not that families are not strong, relations are gone. Those when the husband-father came from work to eat borscht prepared by his wife at home.
And family dinners over plates of these homemade soups, when sour cream was passed around for pickle or a request for bread / salt... remember? And all of the conversations. It is still there in the families listed above. And even better and even wonderful if this is still present in your family.
But young couples, people, did not manage to preserve that wonderful, one might say, Soviet ritual of making a simple soup, warming it up and serving it.
And no, the first courses have not lost their relevance or usefulness, they have not become harmful or much more expensive.
It's just that modern people live better financially, prefer not to waste time cooking soups, when you can cook something faster and tastier. Here is the answer. Moreover, why bother to feed your husband or children with some sort of boring soup when there is so much other food around?
But we all still remember the dear taste of mother's soup with stars, the intoxicating aroma of mushroom or pea soups, the fragrant smell of rich grandmother's cabbage soup in a rustic pot from the stove.
These are the right memories, our passing culinary past and a little nostalgia, if you will, for the old days, when everyone is alive and Dad came home for lunch ...
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