Under yesterday's publication, a wonderful (from my point of view of rhenium) comment flashed that the culture of cooking in our country is at a very low level.
And it would seem that one can agree with this statement, a huge number of completely wild recipes for "hostess yummok" with "mayonnaise" yes in “Multicooker”, “sprinkled with cheese”, scare people with a gentle psychological organization, and all these “creative creations” can be found even historical prerequisites (poverty and lack of education of the majority of the population of the country before the revolution, for example), but here one thing emerges "but".
The USSR, despite all its shortcomings, for many years has instilled in the population not only the culture of eating food, but also that very culture of cooking. Yes, he did, because in most of the Russian territories during the blessed time of the crunching of French buns, the population not only I have not seen French rolls, but also, sometimes, personal bowls, and therefore serving, and cutting, and other subtleties were only familiar to people firsthand.
You can talk as much as you like about the delights of Russian cuisine, but the delights of Russian cuisine are not the cuisine of peasants, of whom there were an overwhelming majority, but "those who are cleaner"? as Gogol aptly and caustically described.
Peasant cuisine - it has no charms, it rests on three whales: to be greedy, obstinate, but not wasteful, in order to get maximum satiety with a minimum of cost.
And this is not only a Russian phenomenon, it was like that all over the world.
I already wrote that the evil bad Bolsheviks raised the general cultural level of the population for a reason, but understanding perfectly well that the higher the cultural needs of citizens, the more efficiently they work to ensure that their to satisfy.
That is why mass production of hitherto unknown products was being established, folios like "Books about tasty and healthy food ", the production of dishes was established, which was not only functional, but also more or less beautiful.
And what is surprising is that they have retreated from the primitive "stubbornly yes greedy" in the kitchens. Yes, few people cooked according to the “Book of Delicious and Healthy Food”, but you will remember the wonderful self-written notebooks - collections of truly unique recipes that were in every home!
The nineties threw the country back. Concerned about survival, people had no time for kitchen delights, the saying "not to fat, I would live" and other "folk wisdom" again came into use
They entered and took root as a protest against the level of social inequality that has appeared now.
And what we call "the lack of a culture of cooking" for many is not a lack of culture, it is, in fact, an unconscious psychological the attitude that there is nothing to try to “live beautifully, live beautifully” - for the rich, and for us - just not to stretch our legs, there is some kind of food - and okay.
Something like that.