Posted on 09/04/2014 1:11:30 PM PDT by EveningStar
The home-cooked meal has long been romanticized, from ’50s-era sitcoms to the work of star food writer Michael Pollan, who once wrote, “far from oppressing them, the work of cooking approached in the proper spirit offered a kind of fulfillment and deserved an intelligent woman’s attention.” In recent years, the home-cooked meal has increasingly been offered up as the solution to our country's burgeoning nutrition-related health problems of heart disease and diabetes. But while home-cooked meals are typically healthier than restaurant food, sociologists Sarah Bowen, Sinikka Elliott, and Joslyn Brenton from North Carolina State University argue that the stress that cooking puts on people, particularly women, may not be worth the trade-off.
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Yep. These are also the same people who think any random group of strangers living under the same roof is a “family”.
I love cooking, too! The only downside, which may or may not be, is that for two hours prep, if it can be devoured in 20-30 minutes, and then cleanup. Growing up on the farm, it was even worse for Mom; she worked hard prepping the meal, we moved in, devoured, and were gone! I understood her feelings about that. But that’s the way it was. And her cooking was outstanding!
My cats hate car trips, so there’s no way I’m taking them out to dinner every night... I don’t care what this bimbo says.
What I wrote is a DIRECT QUOTE from Marcotte. That Slate provides a forum for this creature is quite telling.
We had a couple showers about 1 1/2 weeks ago, but nothing of note-then last night and today it has been sprinkles and slow rain off and on, which is nice.
I’m glad someone else recognized the name.
She’s so crazy even Edwards had to run her off.
“the stress that cooking puts on people, particularly women, may not be worth the trade-off”
Yeah, stuffing your children with garbage food from grossly overpriced fast food restaurants and watching them blow up like blimps, get Type II diabetes at age 21 and heart disease at age 29 is far less stressful, particularly for the mothers. On the plus side, if the husband has a LARGE life insurance policy and he kicks the bucket prematurely from a eating a diet of crap all his (short) life, that might take away a bit of the sting. Still, on the downside, he’s just as likely to develop some chronic, debilitating disease that might not be worth the tradeoff after all.
(BTW, its mostly been the males in my extended family who have been the cooks, and that’s been the case with most of my best friends, and in almost every other case in my experience, the cooking duties have been split. So, this “burden” on the woman is nonsense as well.)
I had to check up on these three “sociologists Sarah Bowen, Sinikka Elliott, and Joslyn Brenton from North Carolina State University” to see how big their gaseous feminist resumes were.
“Undoing Gender”...blahblahblah... living as a man for a year (”I got to the dance floor and was like ‘be cock of the walk!’”)...blahblahblah...studying the food “access” of low income women...blahblahblah...
In other words three whole lifetimes of utterly worthless and resolutely dilettantish hogwash. A perfect trifecta of self-absorbed, doctrinaire idiocy.
No wonder cooking in one’s own kitchen is treated disdainfully by these clownish gems.
“the stress that cooking puts on people, particularly women, may not be worth the trade-off”
Yeah, stuffing your children with garbage food from grossly overpriced fast food restaurants and watching them blow up like blimps, get Type II diabetes at age 21 and heart disease at age 29 is far less stressful, particularly for the mothers. On the plus side, if the husband has a LARGE life insurance policy and he kicks the bucket prematurely from a eating a diet of crap all his (short) life, that might take away a bit of the sting. Still, on the downside, he’s just as likely to develop some chronic, debilitating disease that might not be worth the tradeoff after all.
(BTW, its mostly been the males in my extended family who have been the cooks, and that’s been the case with most of my best friends, and in almost every other case in my experience, the cooking duties have been split. So, this “burden” on the woman is nonsense as well. Oh, and something tells me Amanda probably doesn’t like to cook.)
I’m cooking some homemade chili for tonight’s Packer-Seahawk game. I’m so stressed out I’ll have to take a nap. /sarc
She used to “blog” for the John Edwards campaign.
When that particular story got out, even the Silky Pony realized she had to go.
Females aren’t allowed in MY kitchen. Usually all meals but one or two a month are home-cooked and hand crafted.
/johnny
Home cooking is so stressful and distasteful that we now have an entire food channel devoted to providing ideas for home cooking, not to mention the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of cookbooks and cooking magazines sold every year.
Don’t blame the author entirely. She’s just reporting on the findings of some loony North Carolina State University sociologists (although I’m guessing that she agrees with them).
That picture has patriarchal hegemony written all over it! Plus, it’s making me hungry.
Yes..I knew before I got to the end of the article that it was another set-up for suggesting that the government or someone else to take over the responsibilities of a woman who chooses to have a family. Life is demanding and hard..Mine surely has been and still is because I help with my Grandchildren and I have to plan and cook at least 2 meals a day at a time when I could be out spending time with friends and doing other things. It is frustrating to be tied down to chores but that is one of the prices we pay for family.
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