Has easier preparation of food improved the way people live?

It’s quite hard to answer this question as many aspects of the world, as we know it nowadays, have changed our lives. So it’s difficult to aim at only one of these aspects and be objective.

My opinion about this topic is that the way we prepare food these days is absolutely different from the way people prepared food hundred years ago and maybe even decades ago.

We can’t almost compare the preparation of food now with the preparation of food for example in Ancient Rome or Egypt. Someone could think that goods are the main stuff that has changed so far and are still changing. However I don’t think so. When we think about it more deeply, we found out that basic goods are almost the same goods as there were before thousand years. We are just doing from them different dishes, we have different recipes, we have modern technologies for preparing food, we also have genetically modified plants and so on.

Not only taste of food has changed. To my mind, the time we need to prepare a dish has changed the most. We don’t have to spend a whole time, or at least half of a day in a kitchen and pay attention the whole time we are cooking. We can buy ingredients in a shop that are really easy to prepare, gadgets in our kitchen help us, too, so as a result we need just a fraction of the time that needed our ancestors to prepare a good lunch.

So yes, easier preparation of food really improved the way we live – at least we have more time for other things. And people whose passion is cooking can use saved time for preparing another dish. If food of these days is more salubrious than before is another question and the answer would be probably absolutely different from the answer to previous question.