Essay Topic:"Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer."

THE ADVENCE OF EASY FOOD

Since food is a basic need of human body, like sleeping, we can't do without it. In our age preparing food has become an easier chore as in other chores like dish washing, doing the laundry, etc. It's apparent that preparing food costs less time and effort, compared to former times. Therefore, we can use that extra resources to our other daily activities like doing sports or socializing. From this point of view, it's absolutely a good progression.

There are also negative sides of this novelty, though. Easier food mostly equals to processed food, which is not so healthy. The additives in these foods may be detrimental for our health. There is also an environmental side of this issue. Every processed food comes within a package, which is hard to dissipate into soil. This adds them to the list of major contaminants of our world. They contribute to enlarging the huge amount of garbage we can't get rid of.

If we had skipped the culture aspect of food, this essay would be incomplete. With the advence of easy food, the cuisine of every culture started to dim. Everybody in every major city can mostly get the flavor of every major cuisine these days. It's certainly a good thing, to be able to taste different kinds of food. But it also devalues the food, making it something always reachable. People ask themselves: “Why should I bother myself with the exhausting preparation of this great meal, while I can get it form the Chinese restaurant in downtown?"

Nevertheless, it's something inescapable. It has become a major part of our daily life, especially for working couples and singles. Compared to its positive sides, easy food's negative sides are more unseen and more insidious.