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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While yet another case of "you had to be there.."
That's still one of the funniest lines I've ever heard.
You oughta tell that story!
Part of Agenda 21 is to have the unwashed masses moved into small apartments in urban areas with no kitchen facilities. The masses would be then totally dependent upon restaurants or other take out type establishments for all their food. What could possibly go wrong with this scenario?
Oh, my, how idiotic....it’s all in the priorities....family vs. work....I managed to cook meals when I was working...it is NOT hard, it is much healthier, and much cheaper! And, your health care costs will be lower!
Hot Dogs and Roasted Shoes?
Wow, everything is a pain in the butt to liberals—working 40 hours a week and now cooking.
Yer weiner...
I do a lot of cooking, I like it, and the meals are of the meat and potatoes, a lie, type.
When I was baby sitting my Grandkids I noticed if it looked like a lot and everyone had a share in a family setting they were content, me actually because my Daughter in law is Irish and they can't cook.
Dinner at 6:00 is a family building experience you learn of them and they learn of you.
You're serious?
There are very few things I can not cook for less at home.
As to time better spent? I have to big time disagree with you there. Some of my most creative time has been spent in the kitchen, let alone the quality time with my daughter, my husband, and friends.
I also make some nice $$$ from what I create in the kitchen! It is most definitely time well spent!
But, you make a great point. Hot food, served around a table, is comforting. Comfort makes one secure. I grew up with a mom who put a hot meal on the table every night of our lives and we felt pretty damned secure. After school, in November, when it got dark early, I remember the smell of meatloaf coming up to the bedroom while I studied. It's as evocative to me as it was to Proust and his madelaines. Marcotte is a fool and I hope one day she'll realize that.
Marcotte is a well-known idiot on left-wing sites. She no longer is seen at the Guardian because of her dumb essays - in a world of dumb essays. Can’t wait to go over to Slate and read the comments.
Hates the family, hates men, and really hates women who do anything remotely family oriented.
A vile human being.
I was a stay at home mom and I cooked a lot. I enjoy cooking. Anyway, I made my own marinara sauce for spaghetti, and that is what my kids were used to. So, one day my eldest daughter had dinner with a friends family. It was spaghetti; but, instead of my homemade spaghetti, the working mom opened up a couple of cans of Chef Boyarde Spaghetti.
My daughter's response to this when she came home was, "it was just sad".
I would tell them that they were going to be in for a surprise one day, and that maybe they would appreciate me more. This daugher, btw, has turned into a good cook herself. So, I believe I may have influenced her.
So does mine, and she has begun helping me with the canning, including picking the fruits and veggies.
It amazes me how many young women today have no desire to learn how to cook. My parents shared the cooking in our house in the 50's. My mother cooked the meals during the week, and my Dad cooked spaghetti sauce every Saturday, along with our Sunday meal. That was in the 50's, and I especially enjoyed watching my Dad cook. That's how I learned to make gravy. He was actually a better cook than my mother.
My Grandmother was Irish and she, though a lovely woman and frighteningly smart, could not cook nor could any of the large numbers of my female collateral relatives on the Irish side of the family .
Proust of all people, did he get out of his bath after convorting all of his various Bon Hommes to eat? Rechercheé Du temps perdue?(sp)
She got shredded on Twitter for this last night.
Oh, dear. Your family can’t cook so now all Irish people can’t cook. How sad for you but, in fact, the Irish are very adept cooks and in the 60s and 70s when I visited Ireland and England, it was the Irish restaurants who won the foodie awards. Now, of course, England (Great Britain) has matched Europe in its beautiful food.
I come from an NYC Irish-American family who took great pride in what they put on the table.
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