My experience is that for most culinary product home-made is much, much better than anything shops and restaurants can offer, while being on the whole significantly cheaper and healthier (not counting the fact that cooking is a pleasing experience when you do it with someone). But I live in France so it may be different in the USA...
I just think that people go to restaurants specifically to eat something “strange”, to put themselves into a situation where one kind of has to order what’s offered. It’s not like one can’t buy ready-made food in a shop, so restaurants aren’t “the” alternative to homemade cooking. (I mean sauces, preserves, cakes all can be found in many places.) Restaurants are just an “uncommon” alternative, a plunge to be taken.
My experience is that for most culinary product home-made is much, much better than anything shops and restaurants can offer, while being on the whole significantly cheaper and healthier (not counting the fact that cooking is a pleasing experience when you do it with someone). But I live in France so it may be different in the USA...
I just think that people go to restaurants specifically to eat something “strange”, to put themselves into a situation where one kind of has to order what’s offered. It’s not like one can’t buy ready-made food in a shop, so restaurants aren’t “the” alternative to homemade cooking. (I mean sauces, preserves, cakes all can be found in many places.) Restaurants are just an “uncommon” alternative, a plunge to be taken.