Everybody, follow food on twitter!

I was playing around on twitter, and i noticed that there are a few twitter pages dedicated to home cooking. My first thought was, "Wow, i guess people actually do cook." One of the pages had a little over a thousand followers. This may seem pretty good, but this is about 1,000 people out of, oh I don't know, 7 billion maybe? Doesn't seem so great now, does it? (@homecookingtips)

Could this low follower count be because people that cook don't need tips from twitter pages? Or could it be because they don't have time to get on the computer to even look up things like that?

I read this article called "Just Like Mom: Back-to-basics meals and a little planning can feed busy family" and a quote stood out to me. When Cheverly, Md., Doris Deegan was asked about how she managed to fit in family meals with such a busy family schedule, she added in her response "but I came from an Italian family, and this was what we did." Why is it that home cooking is something rooted in the culture of Italians and other nationalities, but not in America? Why do we just brush off taking the time out to cook? Our lifestyles really aren't an excuse. Italian people come over here and live the same fast lifestyle we live and still make time to cook at home instead of stopping at the nearest fast food place. Why is that?

We pick up letters and spellings from different cultures. We may take the sport of another country and make it our own. We take religions and celebrations, but we can't seem to pick up on any of their good habits, like cooking more often.