dumbing down cookbooks?

I was reading an article in the Food section of washingtonpost.com today. The article was about how American's cooking skills and knowledge have diminished over the past two generations. Here's a little tidbit that made me chuckle...

"At a conference last December, Stephen W. Sanger, chairman and chief executive of General Mills Inc., noted the sad state of culinary affairs and described the kind of e-mails and calls the company gets asking for cooking advice: the person who didn't have any eggs for baking and asked if a peach would do instead,..."

Tee-hee! An entertaining article. Click on this post's title to see the article.