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.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Crude divorce rates don’t tell the truth. For example, the % divorce:marriage ratio in the U.S. for 2011 was 53. Take into account those born out of wedlock, and it shows the situation to be worse than that. Account for those avoiding marriage, cohabitation and having kids altogether, and it’s worse yet.
People of all colors are experiencing slavery now, and the slavery is caused by regulations (against building, small manufacturing, etc.), family-busting laws and policies, efforts to rid our country of useful materials (cash for clunkers) and many other kinds of corruption in leadership.
We are the majority, and we have no respect for contemporary politics. In less than 10 years, many more of us will be working for ourselves despite efforts to stop us.
Could it be that the left-wing Slate is following a Journo-list order to try to get people to give up cooking for themselves and go out to restaurants to justify the $15/hour wage that today's high school dropouts are demanding?
-PJ
We weren't Italian. My Dad was born in Holland. Spaghetti sauce was sauce, and gravy was from pan drippings. He did both quite well. I make a decent spaghetti sauce, although it's nothing like my father's. We'd can tomatoes every year for the sauce. He'd make his own meatballs, fry up Italian sausage, and throw in some browned pig hocks. If there was beef or pork steaks leftover from a weeknight meal, he'd throw those in too.
Neither of my sons are married, but survive on their own because they know how to cook. The last time I visited my oldest son, he made me Hungarian Goulash. Not the Americanized version with ground beef and elbow macaroni, but the kind you get in Hungary with cubed beef and dumplings. It was excellent. He visited Budapest this past May, and had real Hungarian Goulash there. He brought a bunch of different types of paprika back home with him, found an authentic recipe online, and has made it a few times since then.
/johnny
We’ve stopped idealizing family so why not the family gathering together at the dinner table? F’n marxists.
I have a friend, Italian Catholic from New Jersey...she's a longtime Freeper but hasn't posted in years because she and her husband work all the time to keep three girls in private school. Anyway, one day she mentioned having to pick up some pasta to go with the gravy she makes every Sunday.
I asked her if she really put gravy on spaghetti...said I'd never heard of such a thing.
She said, "Of course! What do you put on your pasta!?"
"Well, sauce, what else?" I replied.
She laughed and said, "That's gravy. What's wrong with you?"
I said, "No, it isn't, it's SAUCE!"
God bless her, she's also never eaten beans. :)
More attacks on families. The left won’t be happy until they get a trifecta...destruction of babies, families and God. Abortion is the law of the land, families can be anything they want them to be - two men, two women all with the right to adopt children...your’s. When they accomplish that they have effectively destroyed the family. They have been after Christians for years......they don’t even care about the genocide of Christians. Christians are still only mocked here, expect the left to begin wanting us arrested for preaching the Bible. It’s already happening in other countries. Not at all surprised that the family dinner is mocked.
That’s odd, I thought the Left was urging Good Health Uber Alles, and was marching to make sure we all ate better and avoided GMO, etc etc etc. Now, suddenly, the main avenue to fresher foods, better nutrition, and healthier lifestyles is being shunned? Hmm.
The left is not known for common sense....or even a consistent ideology.
Why would cooking be more stressful for a woman than a man?
Why do women live longer than men if their lives are so stressful?
Are many high school dropouts hired instead of degreed applicants for fast food jobs? There are easily enough unemployed graduates of colleges and universities to fill all of the fast food job openings, if they are also willing to do physical work.
A few years ago ‘they’ did studies about the ‘benefit’ of preschool for young children.
Of course the study showed that 2 and 3 year olds benefited GREATLY from being in preschool.
BUT, not everyone could afford pre-k classes, SOOOOOOO pimp-daddy gubmint has since stepped up and is funding ‘universal pre-k’. It is not mandatory, yet. Can you honestly say that it won’t be within 5 years? And who benefits? Teachers’ unions?
Ka-ching. Screw the producers and steal their earnings, for another ‘entitlement’
This dinner study? Who funded it? (I’ll look I’m just asking).
I said when the pre-k ‘studies’ came out that they were looking to take your 2 year olds away from you.
My first guess about dinner is Big Agra-business, looking to cash in on a ‘school dinner’ program. They’ll wait a few years. And the teachers will be on hand to keep your kids locked up from 7AM - 7PM.
And since most of our ‘representatives’ are nothing but whores in expensive suits, they’d line their pockets. Most of them don’t give a shit about their electorate. We are nothing but cattle with wallets to them.
A point I made in an earlier thread is that these are entry level jobs, but the problem with today's school system is that kids today are not prepared to LEAVE entry level jobs for the next step up.
That's why there is the demand for these jobs to pay like trade jobs, or professional jobs. It's to compensate the "lost generation" who were failed by the schools to prepare them for career jobs.
Articles like this are part of the Journo-List psyops to syncopate with the fast food worker strike today.
-PJ
I’m glad somebody said it.
My kids are celiacs and my husband’s typically too exhausted to care. For me, feeding hungry teenagers with food allergies on a tight budget was the challenge. The worst was the seven years hubby was a first sgt. He was deployed half the time and, when he was home, his hours were horribly erratic. He’d call, say he was on his way home, get flagged as he was heading out the door, then not show up for another three hours. By then, any effort I made was cold.
No matter how hard I tried, there was no ‘lingering’ at the table. Everyone wanted to fill their bellies and get out. Eventually, it boiled down to volume, nutrition and money.
And yes. It was stressful. With an uncooperative family, a hectic work schedule for my husband, and complete lack of appreciation, I lost my taste for cooking. And I used to adore the activity. The kitchen was my happy place.
What about “equivalent” do you not understand? I could live on weeds and insects for free if I wanted to.
my oldest is a boy and he;s a good cook, he like sot dabble in the kitchen and add spices, herbs etc.
This is yet another attack by liberals , socialists and communists to change this country.
If they don’t like it then don’t cook and go out but to come out with this awful garbage in the article shows me how pathetic they are
Since the kids went back to college, two weeks ago, we have been eating in every night. The quality of the food is better, and my wife appreciates when I make dinner for her. Like, really appreciates it.
I like being appreciated.
And my kids think we are old!
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