In my (limited, but still a few months) experience, americans rarely (if ever) eat home cooked food. For americans to eat at home, there is either a sports event that forces you to stay home or twice a year you will have people coming and make food. I have known couples who had four plates and that’s it. All of this shocked me a bit and I honestly did not like it very much. Maybe it’s bad luck but the sheer quantity of fast food (and extremely fat food in it) makes me doubt it
It’s not bad luck, this is fairly common. I’ve discussed it with a number of people from many places. My own take is that the disaster of the 1950s made home cooking terrible, and caused us to lose most of the cooking knowledge our grandparents and great-grandparents had. Recovering it means a new generations has to learn on their own as adults instead of learning from their parents growing up, so most people never do. I grew up in a family in the food industry in NY and always loved to cook, so I feel like an outsider looking at much of my own country’s food culture.
It’s not bad luck, this is fairly common. I’ve discussed it with a number of people from many places. My own take is that the disaster of the 1950s made home cooking terrible, and caused us to lose most of the cooking knowledge our grandparents and great-grandparents had. Recovering it means a new generations has to learn on their own as adults instead of learning from their parents growing up, so most people never do. I grew up in a family in the food industry in NY and always loved to cook, so I feel like an outsider looking at much of my own country’s food culture.