Home food vs fast food

Hanh Nguyen

Ms. Mouliatis

ENGL 1301

24 July 2014

Home Food VS Fast Food

Homemade food is often treated as a privilege. Low cost of fast food and its nutrition value become a solution for many families who have neither time not money to cook at home. Warnings that fast food is not healthy do not stop Americans who treat it as an essential part of their daily diet. As a result, the prevalence of obese and overweight people plummets. If we look at what is behind attractive pricing strategies and delicious tastes offered at fast food chains, all facts support the idea that homemade food is a better choice. The articles Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? by Mark Bittman and Fast Food Versus Slow Food by Nancy Folbre provide enough facts to motivate people to cook at home. Out of these two articles, Folbre's specific approach to argumentation makes her writing extremely persuasive and logical advocating cooking at home.

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The fast-food restaurant chain Mr. Bigg's in Niger...

English: Fast food restaurant in the port of Malin...

One of the biggest advantages of fast food is that it is really fast. People do not spend much time ordering their food and eating it on the go. People tend to work more and cook less than they used to 50 years ago (Folbre). Technological development simplify people's attitude to food and cooking; all they need is to heat their meals in the microwave oven. Moreover, accessibility of fast food restaurants is becoming better and better. Contrary to this, cooking at home seems less attractive due to the routine related to this process. Grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning up, and developing cooking skills are required. Because time is the most expensive thing in the world, not all people are ready to spend it on cooking. Many Americans treat cooking as a job and they are confused...