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Before reading about the concept in the newspaper, I actually saw a show about this on the Food Network a few weeks ago. It is called Dream Dinners, based out of the Seattle, WA area. Dream Dinners provides a "meal assembly center" where people come, pay a given amount, and put together meals, mostly casseroles and stew type dishes, from ingredients that have already been washed, cut, prepped etc., and following a recipe that is given to them. Then the person simply takes these home to freeze them and eat over a period of a week, or even longer.
It sounds like a dream for a busy parent who has to get dinner on the table for a family of five every night and doesn't want to order pizza all the time. It's almost as fast and convenient as frozen dinner from the supermarket, but the person who "cooked" it can at least say they had a hand in it. They can consider it "home-cooked."
However, the concept has its critics. Indian cookbook author and actor Madhur Jaffrey said of it: "People basically don't want to cook but they don't want to be told they are not cooking. It's an illusion."
Is it really a dream dinner, or a cop out?
