That’s how my mom cooked....taste and touch. And oh could she cook! Unfortunately I’ve never mastered the art....too little patience and not enough interest.
I guess it takes a lot of practice; and those talents CAN be translated to any modern appliances.
The problem now is that women just don’t have the time they did in the past. They’ve been brainwashed into the notion that staying home, raising and training their kids, and making a home full of value, is somehow an ‘inferior endeavor’. And their goals have been dictated by interests other than those that used to be concerned with creating a secure, welcoming, nourishing HOME.
We’ve created an economic system where both parents HAVE to work, in order to survive. (Unfortunately, a lot of women bought into this in earlier decades and encouraged it. I’ve met some who really regret it.)
You can buy all the fancy magazines you like that tell you how to make your house look like a magazine cover, and give you instructions as to how to show off entertaining. But there’s not much you can do that really makes a difference to anything on a day-to-day basis, if you don’t have time to actually BE there, in your kitchen and with your kids.
(Despite what a lot of people think, I don’t personally believe that we’ve actually ‘progressed’ much in terms of overall quality of life...we’ve suffered, and lost a lot of quality of life.)