Four views on Microwave Cooking for One
Introduction
Fast, easy, and economical, the recipes in Microwave Cooking for One are ideal for individuals, whether they live alone or share busy modern households. From breakfast through dinner, fresh, delicious meals can be prepared to satisfy personal tastes without wasted food, overheated kitchens, or messy clean-up.
View I
Microwave Cooking for One represents the height of laziness! You can't bother yourself with preparing a proper meal; you can't even bring yourself to talk to the delivery driver. You filth! You, utter, utter, filth! For once, get out of your bed or off of your couch. For once, stop binging your favorite show for the tenth time and do something! No, shoving three things into the microwave doesn't count. Did you do the thing I asked you to do two days ago? No? Of course you didnt.
View II
Microwave Cooking for One shines a ray of hope in the darkness of modern living. I work crazy hours. I wish I didn't have to, yet I feel grateful for the opportunity, or rather, the ability. You know, some people, like my aunt…. Um…I wish I could cook myself something nice, you know, something more than a microwave dish. After work, after all that, I just can't find the energy. And microwave cooking doesn't make me feel as bad as fast food for the fourth time in a row, you know? Maybe someday I will have more. I am doing the best with what I have now, or at least, I think I am.
View III
Microwave Cooking for One constitutes everything wrong with society! Technologies like the microwave have made us complacent. They have lowered our standards to the point at which we stand in our homes and eagerly await “microwaved asparagus soup.” Ugh! Remember when everyone would gather around the dinner table, and sit, and dig into real dishes? You know, meat, vegetables, the whole pyramid? How low we have sunk. Every day we stray further from God's light.
View IV
Microwave Cooking for One lays a path for the future, as time crumbles away the relics of the past. The microwave provides access, possibilities, previous unthinkable to the masses. Foods previously requiring hours materializing in mere minutes, how wonderful! Yes, it will change our kitchens, change us. However, inevitably, we change. Did you know people really didn't care about dinner before the Industrial Revolution? To moralize about family dinner ignores the social context that forms our eating habits. No amount of moralizing alone will change the conditions of our society. And maybe, though you haven't accustomed yourself to it, the microwave cooks us a beautiful future. Or, at least, a way to cope.