I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.

