She already looks like a battle axe. In 30 years she'll be Rosa DeLauro (a.k.a. Keith Richards in drag)
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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“This lady obviously has never had a meal prepared by my Mom”
My mom thought of being a mother as her job. She went to school to learn meal planning and cookery. She constantly improved. She was awesome. (During hard times she’d turn the cheapest stuff into a five-star experience.) On birthday’s she’d make me a cake from scratch...I can still remember them. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Women and children hardest hit!
She already looks like a battle axe. In 30 years she'll be Rosa DeLauro (a.k.a. Keith Richards in drag)
The author is getting verbally beaten up by the posters on Slate, who are predominantly liberal. Her comments are extremely unpopular among that crowd.
If such is slavery am I eligible for Reparations? Cuz I could use the cash to get a nice set of stainless steel cookware I have my eye on!
Worse than that, we were having lunch at a gun range.
And that ain't even legal.
Even that Rambo Militia guy Jim Thompson was there.
Nope, not legal for sure.
The people who get stressed out by cooking are typically disorganized people who don’t properly plan ahead. Since they are disorganized, EVERYTHING stresses them out.
WTH is that?
This dimwit needs to get a crockpot and learn her way around a casserole. I’m only cooking for myself, but with about 15 minutes work I made a tuna noodle casserole and chicken teriyaki on Sunday. It’s fed me all week.
And, shockingly, I manage to do all this work while holding down a full-time job.
I guess I’m just more of a woman in every possible way than Amanda Marcotte. Although I knew that already.
Dear Sarge,
I helped in the kitchen, but some times it was Mom’s ‘Castle of Solitude’.
Some times, even now, it takes a few minutes to prep, and as the avant garde say, to have your ‘mise en place’ all done first, before you heat the pan. (Chef Tood Mohr does a good point on this on YouTube.)
Since I was the child among grownups, guess who did all the dishes?? That’s right! There was no dishwasher, except me, back then. Nowadays, one plate, one cup, etc., but it still gets done.
Wow, NOW will be after you for banning women from your kitchen... lol
I have a friend who is brilliant at saving money. (She’s a CPA, wife and mom of 3 older teens). Since our income has nosedived in the last few years, she’s given me lots of tips on saving money.
One of the biggest expenses in a food budget, she says,(from her many many years of counseling clients and her own experience) is eating out.
Many of the tips mentioned in reply to your post are exactly what she’s recommended to me. Buying in bulk, dividing/freezintg, making things from scratch. She said avoid eating out and pre-processed/packaged foods as that is what really runs up the expense. You can eat well, healthy and delicious meals by cooking in scratch and buying in bulk. Plus its fun to cook and eat together!
Unfortunately today you have a whole generation being brought up on Mac & Cheese and Chicken nuggets
I am utterly amazed/shocked/saddened at my friends/family members with kids who simply don't eat from the diner table.
Growing up, I ate what the family ate and couldn't leave the table until I finished my plate. Not today, instead the parents will go into the freezer and microwave them crap like Mac & Cheese, Chicken nuggets, Pizza Bagels, etc. And we are talking older kids like pre-teens to.
Last Christmas I got into a fight with some of my relatives because I was embarrassed because my new girlfriend spent a lot of time cooking a nice dinner to make a good impression on everyone, yet my relatives who are parents made her sad and work for nothing because they all brought frozen diners & McDonalds for the kids.
When asked, they just say "Oh he/she won't eat anything else". uuuummmm your the parent right?
Sad, sick society we live in
Sounds like the return of the seventies hippy inner city commune ideal is, "the next big thing".
And she thinks her incompetence is funny.
Marxist Feminism’s Ruined Lives
Very good article written by the conservative,sane sister of one of the insane founders of NOW. She comes out blazing at the horrible damage done to our country by feminists like her sister - all stemming from cultural Marxism.
+100!
Mallory Millett discusses how her wacked out leftist sister and fellow travelers got together in the 60's to plan the destruction of marriage and the family.
Now we have the latest attack by yet another wacko feminist who is attempting to attack a healthy family practice: the home cooked meal. But the attack is part of the original plan to destroy what is normal & healthy about marriage and family.
It is appalling to me how much the simple act of providing a meal for ones family is discouraged by government these days. Parents are actually being enabled to consider feeding their children as a responsibility of government entities instead of their own. All public schools provide lunch for their students, but many also provide breakfast as well. And some even go so far as to provide dinner and food for the weekend. In addition, there are many locales where meals are provided to kids during the summer months as well. Heaven forbid that parents should have to spend any time at all in the kitchen preparing a meal for their children!
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