Determining Yuppie Cuisine
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...Barbara Ehrenreich explains as she cooks noodles for an interviewer: I made a lot of fun of the yuppies for their obsession with eating and exercising, but they were right about the food. In the early 1980s, I thought, ‘Oh, this is disgusting, I'm going to eat cheeseburgers. That's real food.’ But now I have extra virgin olive oil, and fresh basil and all that. (Conniff 34(5)).
Yuppies, irregardless of whatever ills they might represent to their critics, have brought awareness of international cuisine to the world. The main reason that this is true is that a large number of yuppies traveled the world either during their college years or for the business entities for which they worked, or both. When they returned to a meat and potatoes America, it just didn’t suit their newly acquired tastes, nor their desire for health. They wanted more. But these aren’t the only reasons. Remember, yuppies started the expression, Let’s have lunch.
It is hard to define the exact type of food that a yuppie eats because this can be related to any fad that took place in the 1980s...
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