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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oh don’t get me started o welfare food stamps.
I go nuts when I see them , and then they go to their new vehicle or the liquor store next door .
We pay about 300 a week on groceries, we get all store name foods, nothing fancy but we live in our budget which is small, and then I have to pay for their food especially a family which are all obese and not needing food that much obviously
Yep.
You can’t buy that stuff.
You just have to be there.
I (male) am the cook for 4. Yeah, there’s stress ... yet few things are as satisfying as cooking a good meal from scratch. Even when in a rush, it doesn’t take much to throw something together (at worst, keep a few bags of Bertolli meals in the freezer: 10 minutes heating in a skillet and you’ve got something worth slaving over, under $3/person).
Reminds me: my 45 lb bucket of raw wheat hasn’t shown up yet. Taking “from scratch” ever farther is a worthy challenge.
Sorry, people, life is work. You want good health at low cost? you’re gonna have to cook it yourself from raw ingredients.
Wrong. The trend of parents constantly taking their kids out to eat, or ordering take out or delivery food for dinner, is horrible and immensely damaging. It has nothing to do with the “idealized” 50s family structure that Amanda hates so much. It has everything to do with people making less and less effort to create cohesive social units, whether they are families or neighborhoods or communities. If a mother and father can’t even cook for their kids, its a sad statement.
I suppose it all depends on the cook and the family. My mother-in-law is a terrible cook and a vicious woman who doesn’t feel any sentence is complete if it doesn’t denigrate someone. Home-cooked family meals with her are unhealthy for mind and body.
Alright, STOP IT! I am so freaking hungry!!
Lunch today was Ramen noodles made into food by the addition of pork roast leftovers and fresh veggies.
The goal of the left is to actually drive up food prices.
Their mascots on EBT will simply keep getting increases (at your expense also) so that they won’t feel the price increase at all.
“After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay.”
Hey slate writer....
P155 OFF!
Well adjusted, healthy children (now adult)and as often as possible there was an evening meal with all hands possible in attendance. Here’s a twist also...if Uncle Sam didn’t have me “out of town” or later the office had me “out of town,” this head of the household did the cooking.....breakfast as often as possible and the same for dinner. The younguns ate cereal as a snack, they got protein and complex carbs for morning meal and real food....meat, carb, vegg, vegg for dinner.
It is only the control freak, nanny state ‘wog’ that thinks there is nothing to be gained from the bonding and camaraderie found at the family table.
And it is raining, but I’m still going to light the grill right now for fajitas, and sauté fresh squash and basil from the garden with onion in butter-your barbecue pics made me hungry......
hadn’t rained here for months but in the last few days we had some sprinkles and nice lazy rain
I do the same thing, but I have four other mouths to feed.
I’ll make a 25-pound oval-shaped three-inch think brick of lasagna in my turkey pot, cut it into portions, and it’ll keep for months.
NOMS!
(OH! I’m also the only one working. Wife’s a SAHM)
Now don’t smoke the broccoli and steam the buds!
Again, a communist propaganda organ of the White House attacks another American family value!
To them, I say, CHUCK FOO! (It’s harder to write it in anglicized Russian.)
I COOK!
Yea, sure, I could go out and get something, but my DAD (G-d bless him), taught me how to cook as a kid in my own cast iron pan. (Among things, he was in one of many lifestyles, a short order cook. “My boy ain’t gonna grow up and waste money in no greasy spoon, when he can do it himself!”)
I watched a whole generation become nothing than slaves to the golden arches, the red haired girl, the false faced king, or a ‘hardy’ sandwich, or any chain chicken place (before the days of the cows protesting to eat chicken).
I have my own pans, stainless and iron. I do use a stovetop more, and proved, to myself, that baking is not a niche for me to conquer. I do ‘have some books’, and ‘my pen and ink books’, but once I got ‘the method’ down. I’m ok throwing something together. (And no, I don’t burn water, either!)
Lastly, cooks, whether home or business, just might a hidden geek, whether it is gadgetry, cutlery - European or Asian, or machinery.
Me? I can say that a dollar paid for a kitchen knife had better be of value, and worthiness. I own both European and Asian designs. No ‘gyutos’, or ‘pettys’, yet. Too many dollars, for right now.
In all, home cooking can bring a sense of accomplishment, that getting in a car or bus to go to a restaurant, just does not bring. Mind you, it was a Korean G.I. wife home cook, that in a food show competition, won her place as chef in one of the many casino restaurants in Las Vegas, last year! (Her secret was that she learned English, and American cooking, watching that cable food thing!)
The bottom-scraping scenarios the author presents are consequence of an unwillingness to SOLVE THE PROBLEMS and DO THE WORK. Utensils & cookware? cheap from Goodwill et al. Dirty living conditions? _clean_up_. Erratic work schedules? toss ingredients in a slow cooker, easy to prep and ready anytime. Fresh produce unavailable (costly or absent)? frozen is just as good _and_ lasts longer.
Turn the G-D TV off and put everyone to work. Get dressed before 7AM (much less NOON) and get productive. People lived much better on far less because they _worked_at_it_.
Hahahaha!
I went to post this to Facebook for discussion and the auto complete function CHANGED THE TITLE TO....
The Tyranny of the Home Cooked Meal.... go ahead Slate. Tell us how you really feel!
Lucky you are-this late in the summer, okra grows, cherry tomatoes and some zucchini that is in the shade-but it has to be picked small...
Stress, what stress? Cooking is a stress RELIEVER for me. It's a hobby, like crochet or cross stitch.
At least once a week I have my 4 & 6 year olds make dinner. I just stand there and tell ‘em what to do, they have a blast making it.
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