Americans Need to Cook More

While cooking with locally-grown food is ideal, for most Americans just cooking more in general would reduce the environmental impact of their consumption habits, cut costs, and trim waistlines.

Michael Pollan identifies Americans' growing fascination with cooking shows and laments their diminishing time spent actually cooking in his recent article in the New York Times Magazine:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/magazine/02cooking-t.html?_r=1