But on a happy note, I picked up some yu choy from the Asian market around the corner. Last time my first bok choy. This time my first yu choy. Had never heard of yu choy before but now I've cooked and eaten some.
Our farmers market is open two days a week for part of the year. Closes this month for the winter. I went there once this season. It was small and kind of made me sad.
If this is the Vacor I have in mind, I'd guess it was after the year 2000.
The ones I found in my search don't quite match but I'm still considering it as a possibility.
(Thinking of Vacor Jungle.)
How much do Europeans cook from scratch?
I use nearly instant foods -- like canned soup and just-add-boiling water soup pouches. So I'm not eating out but rarely am cooking from scratch.
My grandmother cooked from scratch so much that she made her own noodles. But she was a home economics teacher in the first half of the 1900's.