You are right about the ingredients, though some time you might want to try a well-exercised free-range chicken and decide if that's really what you want now.
I meant in restaurants--other than places like New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Only 25 years ago, the best my current home town had to offer was a couple of mediocre Chinese places, a couple of mediocre Italian places, one fairly good Greek place, Captain D's greasy seafood, one or two quasi Mexican places, steak places, and one hell of a lot of pizza places (almost all chains). Now there is a first-class Brazilian restaurant, numerous Thai and Vietnamese places, wonderful pasta places, and all sorts of grills and bistros, and a whole lot else. I can't think of a specifically German restaurant, which I would enjoy--but there a couple of Delis that come close.
Also, home cooking has become much more resourceful and adventurous.
My grandparents served wonderful traditional southern cooking that was very good indeed. But their idea of a big Christmas splurge was to provide Roma wine with the plastic dripless collar. |
