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 ...
more evidence to show how college does not give you an education or brains.
We will cook good food at home, eat well and live longer.
My parents both worked from the time I was in 4th grade. But we still managed to eat the family meal together in the evening most of the time.
Mom ate many cold meals because she used that time to read to the family. They were great books which we kids took a turn selecting, biographies of great Americans, The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom and others.
We didn't leave the table until the chapter was finished. We also took a turn reading (and having cold supper) to give Mom an occasional break.
The results were worth it. Every one of us went on to higher education degrees, including the graduate level and even one PhD. Best of all, not one of our brood of six grew up to be a drug addicted lazy slackard or a bed-wetting liberal. But I repeat myself.
My wife and I did the same with our brood, even though we didn't do it quite as consistently or as often as my parents did. We got the same rewarding results.
I cook as a stress reliever...
Small feet, too. =D
More Marxist agenda driven science. Did they come to their conclusions before or after they collected the data?
Pray America wakes up
same here, Every night we all sit down and eat dinner.
3 kids, myself and wife and we all learn what the kids did today and how al our days went.
My 16 year old loves to cook now and this article is about themselves who are just feminazis and hates the role of women who are to like them
Well, don’t forget to tell your comrades at the NBC-affiliated entertainment networks who promote those Family Table PSA`s with all sorts of modern “families” …
It's about tearing down another family value that is held dear in nuclear families, especially multi-generational families where everyone gets together at the end of the day and talks about the day's travails.
The problem is that today's minority families don't exist anymore. Single mothers, multiple father siblings, no work ethic, all contribute to the decline of certain blocks of people.
So the only thing left is to mock and deride those true families that do stay together, and dine together.
-PJ
The problem is not the home cooked meal but rabid Feminism and "Women's Liberation" that forced women out of the home and into the workforce, often without a husband to support her otherwise. It is time to return to the norm of no sex outside of marriage, permanently married spouses, working fathers and stay at home mothers. As conservatives, it is time that we stop being ashamed to proclaim publicly that this should be the norm for society.
Another attack on the family.
Dinner is often when everyone meets after a busy day. It is an important family social social activity.
Families have been doing it for thousands of years. Millions of years if you believe in evolution.
[ This is all good. The Progs won’t cook, will eat out and will die younger.
We will cook good food at home, eat well and live longer. ]
No, they will just use this to open up mandatory Moochelle Obama Public Lunchrooms, ie... Bread lines....
HUH it’s a damn sight cheaper than eating junk food every night.
When I see these parents going to Publix or another store to get their pre made food makes me think they are just pure lazy, and can’t be bothered to be a family , a close family and talk to each other
http://guardianlv.com/2014/03/michelle-obama-encourages-home-cooked-meals/
Bwahahahahahaha
Is the author of the article rasis....?
We cook every night even though our boys are all grown and out of the house. My wife and I spend much of our time together in the kitchen. On the weekends my grill always has some kind of dead animal cooking on it.
[ They’re trying to drum up business for restaurants so they can pay that $15 an hour wage. ]
Bush Brought us the McJob
Obama is bringing us the McCareer....
Mmmmmm....I wantz me sumb small feet to rub...
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