 There is yet more to say about capitalism’s restructuring of the work day which relegates cultural labors, that do not feed the needs of the market (such as home-cooking), to the margins.However, neither of these fully explain the pervading disinterest to invest in the food culture by a generation who wield the most access to the resources that could ensure its survival.In these conditions, the food culture is stripped of its functional purpose in society—it does not inform young people’s relationship to food or their community, and adopts a merely aesthetic or symbolic value.