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 womans 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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What a loon.
The far left is crazier than flying mice guano
Yeh....chicken soup stresses me like crazy.
What a pantload.
Should have had a class 5 vomit alert on this. Shame on you.
Another lazy, entitled feminazi who not only cannot, but will not learn how to, cook.
The only viable solution is to have the government cook all meals.
stress that cooking puts on people???
People gravitate to the kitchen to talk and cook together.
I bet this writer loves to go out on the “Slate” company card and run up a bill : )
NOT that! Anything but that!
“Your’re gonna make my agent orange act up!”
~Major Payne
They’re trying to drum up business for restaurants so they can pay that $15 an hour wage.
There is an office full of them here.
They cannot make a home and don’t want to.
Why get married and have a family?
I made a comment and also added keywords. :-D
When I was a kid my mother put a well-rounded dinner on the table every night. They were all awesome. I’d give anything for their equal today.
One day I ate with friends. It was something from a can with crackers. No salad, not greens, yuk!
I lived in homemade heaven until I moved out.
We (Wife, two teenage sons and I) eat dinner as a family every night. I hardly ever have to say a word, and learn alot about what’s happening with my kids by just sitting there and listening to them talk.<p
Family Dinner = Priceless.
And doesn't want anyone else to, either.
B.S....
God intended women to be in the kitchen.
Why else would he fill them with milk and eggs?
In a different era her family would have done the right thing and had her committed...her articles are the verbal diarrhea on paper of a complete and utter loon.
Fair enough.
Let me gues. Some wymyn's studies gals who couldn't find a man even if they were straight are upset at traditional roles.
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