Half the people on antidepressant medications in this country are on them, most likely, because they attempted to use their new, state-of-the-art electronic kitchen devices. In order to use these “miracle time-savers,” they were forced to study 17 pages of safety instructions, and 297 pages of operating and dismantling instructions. Truth is, the machines are the brainchildren of engineers who have never cooked or washed dishes. The gadgets require a great deal of time to assemble, take apart after use, wash, dry, re-assemble, and put away.

A major reason for our nation’s health crisis is the fact that folks are over scheduled and have taken a permanent leave of absence from cooking, or they never learned the art from their busy, over scheduled mothers. Incidentally, cooking does not mean inserting a frozen “convenience dinner,” loaded with unhealthy additives, into a microwave for two minutes; it also doesn’t have to mean slaving all day in the kitchen.