What’s the Big Idea? The days of children turning to their
parents to learn how to cook may be coming to an end. Nearly
half of Americans believe that in the next 15 years, more people
will learn to cook from instructional videos online rather than
from their parents. That’s according to a new survey of more
than 1,000 Americans conducted by Allrecipes, one of the first
major recipe websites. This survey, a follow-up to another
Allrecipes conducted back in 1999, provides a snapshot of just
how much technology has changed our cooking habits since then,
for better or worse. One surprising takeaway is that as the
popularity of online cooking tools has increased, the role that
parents play in the kitchen seems to have diminished. Some 44%
of those surveyed said they would choose to rely on cooking
websites for the rest of their lives if they had to pick just
one tool, while just 9% said they would choose to rely solely on
their parents. What’s the Significance? There’s no doubt that
smartphones and the Internet a