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While Lydon learned much from her experience at UpStairs on the Square, her training in a professional kitchen had begun the summer before. After failing to get a job at the Pudding, she got a job as a prep cook at a restaurant in Nantucket, where she and her family had spent their summers. In childhood, she had “sold them berries to finance horseback riding lessons,” and now she had the opportunity to make culinary magic with those berries...
Nantucket and other childhood memories were indeed the source of Lydon’s interest in cooking. One of her fondest culinary recollections is of a lobster soup made from fresh lobsters caught during summers in Nantucket, and she has early memories of finding recipes “scrawled on note cards” in her family’s home. Her mother, a recreational gardener and cook, introduced Lydon to cooking’s creative side. “My mom is a wonderful forager; she can make something out of nothing,” Lydon says...
Eating Out WHY COOK-IT-YOURSELF IS SO POPULAR...
...would people bother going out just to cook their own meal? "Americans want control," says Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of research for the National Restaurant Association. "The cook-it-yourself experience embodies the quintessential American values of freedom of choice and independence." Riehle also points to a widening curiosity about immigrant cuisines. With families spending 46% of their food budget on meals outside the home, family members miss the cooking experience--sort of. "It's the Betty Crocker cake-mix thing," says Pamela Parseghian, executive food editor at Nation's Restaurant News. "People still want to add the eggs...
...every diner embraces the experience. Dragged in by enthusiastic wives, "men often sit with their arms crossed ... that is, until we fill them up with good wine," says Will Layfield, owner of the Melting Pot in Westwood, N.J. At the Vinoklet, diner Greg Schafer grouses, "I don't cook at home, and if I'm going to pay good money, I want someone to do the cooking for me." What's more, do-it-yourself dining isn't cheap. At the Minturn Country Club in Minturn, Colo., Kobe beef costs $49.95--uncooked. Still, restaurateurs insist that the customer knows best...