dinnertiming

i am in the throes of listening to "in defense of food," by michael pollan in such snippets as i may snatch while tootling about town in the auto. that is to say: a mouthful at a time. the content is excellent, even if the reader sounds a little too like someone trying to sell me something. today he compared the time taken to prepare, eat, and wash up after the average american meal over the last several decades. it apparently only takes most families less than twenty minutes to make dinner, less than an hour to consume it, and less than twenty minutes to clean up. i am not certain if i am living in the wrong country or participating in the wrong polls. tonight it took approximately an hour to make dinner. we had corn bread, black eyed peas, and turnips and radishes braised in olive oil and butter and then steamed with their greens. with hot sauce. the only thing not from scratch was the hot sauce. though it is my favorite meal, it only took me as long to eat as it took me to read an article about groucho marx on the NPR website.(about 8 minutes.) and as a teenager will be doing the dishes, if they get cleaned in under two days it will be a bona fide miracle. and as it is time for me to urge on said miracle, i must go get the bullwhip out.
godspeed.
don't forget to vote.