Chicagoist: Happy Birthday, Mac

Ingrid

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:28:14 -0600

Last week I made a Martha Stewart recipe for mac and cheese. Several kinds of gourmet cheeses, a roux, bread cubes...and a lot of time and mess and I've got to say that a box of Kraft would have been just as good if not better (but not the easy mac as Shannon says).

Ingrid

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:00:51 -0600

MM

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:16:32 -0600

Mmmmm... Kraft Dinner (as every good Canadian will always refer to instant mac & cheese), a comfort food from my childhood. I've made all sorts of baked macaroni & cheese recipes from wholesome, organic ingredients which taste way better. Sometimes, though, you need a Kraft Dinner fix. It's easy, cheap & yummy.

E

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:43:23 -0600

I call it Cheese and Macaroni.

Chris F

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:40:44 -0600

So, from the tone of the aside, I take it you frown upon microwave ownership? Umm, it's just a tool. I think the fresh vegetables I steam in my microwave are at least as healthy as any number of things that could be prepared atop your bourgeouis stove. You'll actually find microwaves in many of your top restaurant kitchens these days. That said, I loves me some powdered cheese sauce.

Shannon

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:36:51 -0600

i'm sensing some severe kraft prejudice in this article. granted, i get 90% of my RDA sodium intake from your boxes, but what else am i, one of the laziest denizens of the city, going to do for dinner? i can't argue with easy. (unless it's easy mac, which royally sucks.)