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Let’s Stop Idealizing the Home-Cooked Family Dinner
Slate ^ | September 3, 2014 | Amanda Marcotte

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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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: americaindecline; antiamericanism; areyoubitterdear; communism; crymeariver; feminazi; goodcooking; junkscience; nostalgia; nuclearfamily; smashthepatriarchy
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To: Political Junkie Too
"The problem is that today's minority families don't exist anymore. Single mothers, multiple father siblings,"

Thanks to the divorce/cohabitation regime imposed by the political class, the same is true of most white families and has been for a long time.

"no work ethic,"

LifeTrac5 in New Orleans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDGXfP3LJ8c


201 posted on 09/04/2014 3:41:48 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: manic4organic

It’s now revealed that Marcotte used this for click bait. Apparently, she has written previously that cooking is a wonderful hobby/habit that all women and men should enjoy. Slate, you liberal whores!


202 posted on 09/04/2014 3:44:27 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: EveningStar

Typical. A small percentage live in motels with no kitchen SO NO ONE ELSE SHOULD COOK. Even if you have no kitchen there are crockpots, electric skillets, and microwaves (which can be used for steaming veggies, baking potatoes, even boiling pasta, not just warming packaged convenience food).


203 posted on 09/04/2014 3:46:03 PM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: rfreedom4u

God made women because sheep can’t cook.


204 posted on 09/04/2014 3:46:06 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

Your post reminds me that I think we should have a Free Republic cookbook. I’ve always wondered why Italian-Americans call tomato sauce “gravy.” My husband does this and it amused me when we were first married.


205 posted on 09/04/2014 3:47:00 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: familyop
"Most" or "many?"

-PJ

206 posted on 09/04/2014 3:51:40 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: EveningStar

I agree with the article, MUCH BETTER to pick up a meal from McDonald’s than to take chances cooking food that very well may be past its prime or spoiled. Who’s watching their parents to make sure the children get safe food? Most people don’t consider the fact that school is only available to feed the kids on school days, not weekends. Pretty SICK society, allowing children to be exposed to what are HORRIBLE, Third World illnesses. Damn the Tea Party. SHAME ON THEM.

(at least that would be my comment to Slate...just to tweak them a bit)


207 posted on 09/04/2014 3:52:22 PM PDT by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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To: miss marmelstein

A 17th century English dictionary describes it thus: ‘GRAVEY, BROTHY DRESSING FOR MEAT OR FISH’. The Pilgrim Fathers brought the word GRAVY with them when they arrived on the East Coast in the 1600s. East Coast Italian migrants adopted it from English in the 1860s, as a direct translation of DRESSING. If Americans want to call Salsa Gravy, what’s the problem? As long as they don’t really believe it to be an Italian word. It’s old English! Besides, THERE IS NO LETTER ‘Y’ IN THE ITALIAN ALPHABET!


208 posted on 09/04/2014 3:54:27 PM PDT by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box then 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: EveningStar
Sinnika Eliot
209 posted on 09/04/2014 3:57:03 PM PDT by Castlebar
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To: SgtHooper
"she worked hard prepping the meal, we moved in, devoured, and were gone!"

Three girls and a boy in our family, and the girls always had to do the dishes after each meal. One would wash, and the other two would dry. I don't think my brother ever washed a dish the whole time we were growing up.

210 posted on 09/04/2014 3:59:20 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Wallace T.
"The author is getting verbally beaten up by the posters on Slate, who are predominantly liberal. Her comments are extremely unpopular among that crowd."

Many of them have also realized that their masters behind bipartisan politics are shrinking the economy and have no plan to include their survival. "Sustainability" means one thing to one class of people (exclusive to themselves, their "pristine views" and their pets) and another to the rest (inclusive for all ethical human beings in particular).


211 posted on 09/04/2014 4:01:47 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: txrefugee

“If you are too busy to cook together and eat together, you are too busy.”

I stayed home with my kids but as they got older it was virtually impossible to eat together.

Part time jobs,clubs,husband off to the gym directly from work, and sports made it very difficult.

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212 posted on 09/04/2014 4:02:15 PM PDT by Mears
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To: BobL
Now we have a problem. If we take this woman's advice and stop cooking and just feed our kids takeout, the feminist elites will be happy but Empress Michelle Obama will not be happy because we will not be eating in accordance with the guidelines she has handed down on high from the Whitehouse. What a dilemma.
213 posted on 09/04/2014 4:05:01 PM PDT by Nevadan
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To: Political Junkie Too

Most of those with children have been separated/divorced.


214 posted on 09/04/2014 4:05:55 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Fightin Whitey

She reminds me of Mary Catherine Gallagher (Molly Shannon) on Saturday Night Live. I expect her to put her hands in her armpits and smell her fingers.


215 posted on 09/04/2014 4:05:57 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: miss marmelstein
I could be a problem that my family had an orange tinge. I also visited the UK in the 70’s I worked for ICI.

The fave food was Indian bad Italian was second, it had taste as opposed the local variety, the beer was good though.

My daughter is a trained Classical French Chef, trying to keep her out of the poor house after I croak.

I come from a old time Yankee family and my Grannie could get you to eat poop, to quote my dad.

If you do that recipe for brisket soak it for an hour before cooking.

216 posted on 09/04/2014 4:06:02 PM PDT by Little Bill (EVICT Queen Jean)
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To: Terry L Smith

Thanks! Ah yes, no luxury dishwasher. And working in the fiefdom of the kitchen. One learns much when entering that realm. Us boys hated working in the fields/animals and the sisters wanted to work outside. Not such a glorious setting for Mom, and hard work for her, too. But learning to work through the mundane stuff day after day provided a good grounding (I call it a “basis of appreciation”) that motivated us all to get where we are today.


217 posted on 09/04/2014 4:09:40 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: mass55th

Actually, I don’t recall that my old brother washed either. But he was old school! :-)


218 posted on 09/04/2014 4:12:44 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: NRA1995
"I have a wonderful idea; let’s stop idealizing feminism. I’ve never seen a more unhappy group of women anywhere."

And it's no wonder, either...just look at them!

219 posted on 09/04/2014 4:14:28 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: KC_Lion
Rosedale BBQ of course!

I work near Union Station and get down there occasionally. My boyfriend is fond of Jack's Stack. I really miss Little Jake's Eat It and Beat It at 12th and Grand.

220 posted on 09/04/2014 4:15:05 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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