Home Cooking for the Captain Crunch Generation (Late Boomer/Early Gen-X childhood comfort foods, Starbucks era Cupholder and Desktop Cuisine, Anime munchies, and neo-hippie Crunchy Granola fare)
The Age of Information and Telecommunications, Postmodernism
Early Wave: hippie older siblings or cousins, frodo, star trek, hitchhikers guide, muppets, dark crystal, star wars, close encounters, mystery science theater, dnd, scooby doo, rocky horror, monty python, kung fu movies, buckaroo banzai, blazing saddles, wizards, snl, steve martin, airplane, logan's run, glam rock, hair bands, punk, new wave, vans, pac man, space invaders, atari, trs-80 or commodore 64, infocom zork, plato and bitnet and usenet, command lines
Later Wave: dot com, "hip and edgy", simpsons, family guy, south park, skateboards, grunge, raves, hip hop, internet, object oriented
Our childhood food memories are from the 1970's and forward, so these recipes are from those years on. Some of us remember Laurel's Kitchen, Moosewood and More with Less recipes. Some of us remember Hamburger Helper and Shake 'n' Bake.
As for where we eat, unfortunately, for myself and many of my friends, it is rarely at our own dining room table. (My own dining room table seems to be used when parents are visiting, and occasionally enough that the dog stands in the doorway and complains at us because we are in the wrong place.) With luck, it might be at a stool at the kitchen counter, but when home, it is just as likely to be from a bowl in our laps, sitting in front of the TV. And let's not talk about how often food comes from a restaurant for most of the people in this generation. We might eat out more often if restaurants were gluten free. It is their insistence on ignoring this population that has saved our family from spending our money on takeout.
Lunch in the Cubicle? - Dining al Desko
http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_future/Transcripts/s616084.htm
Breakfast in the Car? - One-Handed Car Food
Convenience Taste-Alikes? - shake n bake, stove top stuffing, etc.
Speaking of Cap'n Crunch - "Pass the Cold Cereal, Please" at Chef Rick's site: http://www.chefrick.com/html/article4.html
Coffee Shop?
Martini Lounge and Wine Bar?
http://cuisinekawartha.blogspot.com/2007/04/martini-subculture.html
Spa Cuisine and Juice Bar?
Vegetarian? - Anti-Globalization, Rainbow Family, Deadheads
Thai? - Full Moon Party, Riding the Southeast Asia Circuit
Vietnamese? - Boat People
Indian? - Yoga, Bangalore call center, Bollywood
Latin American?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4a1z7NLnNk
Those pages link to GenerationX:
