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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

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.


221 posted on 09/04/2014 4:18:04 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop
Do you think the story by Slate today on the desired demise of the home-cooked family meal has something to do with the fast-food workers' strike today?

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

222 posted on 09/04/2014 4:20:56 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: miss marmelstein
"I’ve always wondered why Italian-Americans call tomato sauce “gravy.” My husband does this and it amused me when we were first married."

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.

223 posted on 09/04/2014 4:23:45 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: GeronL
NOW can't be in my kitchen, either. I have knives in there..... It's MY kitchen. ;)

/johnny

224 posted on 09/04/2014 4:38:07 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: EveningStar

We’ve stopped idealizing family so why not the family gathering together at the dinner table? F’n marxists.


225 posted on 09/04/2014 4:42:54 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: miss marmelstein
" I’ve always wondered why Italian-Americans call tomato sauce “gravy.” My husband does this and it amused me when we were first married."

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. :)

226 posted on 09/04/2014 4:49:06 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: EveningStar

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.


227 posted on 09/04/2014 4:54:38 PM PDT by tioga (WFTD...be there or be square.)
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To: EveningStar

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.


228 posted on 09/04/2014 5:01:39 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317

The left is not known for common sense....or even a consistent ideology.


229 posted on 09/04/2014 5:03:25 PM PDT by tioga (WFTD...be there or be square.)
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To: EveningStar

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?


230 posted on 09/04/2014 5:51:58 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: Political Junkie Too
"Do you think the story by Slate today on the desired demise of the home-cooked family meal has something to do with the fast-food workers' strike today?

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?
"

I've seen feminists up close as instructors in a universities, bosses, coworkers, politicians and government regulators. They hate fast food workers. Most of them come from families with social pathologies and cash flow from the debt regime.

It's more likely, that they wish that they could force more revenues from restaurants, convenience stores and every other service business that normally depends on a large and decentralized manufacturing base.

Feminists, like most regulating environmentalists, are fakes. They are concerned with preventing competition for their sugar daddies and sugar mommies.

It's all irrelevant anyway. The debt is rising, and the game of recirculating debt won't continue much longer. There will be no place for government-linked freaks putting on shows to present obstacles against self-sufficiency and new, small production operations for their connected families.


231 posted on 09/04/2014 5:55:35 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

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.


232 posted on 09/04/2014 6:09:09 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: EveningStar

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.


233 posted on 09/04/2014 6:14:15 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan ( It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chew your ass out all day long)
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To: familyop
There was a period in the late 1970s and 1980s when seniors were also taking these jobs.

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

234 posted on 09/04/2014 6:17:30 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: Born to Conserve

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.


235 posted on 09/04/2014 6:29:19 PM PDT by Marie (When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)
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To: familyop

What about “equivalent” do you not understand? I could live on weeds and insects for free if I wanted to.


236 posted on 09/04/2014 6:45:16 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Gabz

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


237 posted on 09/04/2014 6:45:41 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Political Junkie Too
" 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."

That's true. I've seen a few clumsy and uneducated graduates in technical projects, some of them even managing projects, resulting in management from below. It appears that aptitude, for some at least, needs to be learned over a long period of time--maybe even during personal growth and development.

"Articles like this are part of the Journo-List psyops to syncopate with the fast food worker strike today."

That could be. They might be advocating for some of their students in advance.

And of course, a $15 per hour minimum fast food wage won't solve the problems. It'll take much more than that.

When resources become scarce enough, even through artificial scarcities, the skilled and ingenuous get going. In the near future, expect regulations, patents and licenses of the exclusive nature to be of little value.


238 posted on 09/04/2014 6:51:19 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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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!


239 posted on 09/04/2014 6:59:26 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: Born to Conserve
"What about “equivalent” do you not understand?"

Little. Restaurant food is nasty. Some of the oil would be best used in a diesel engine. Some of the other restaurant food could otherwise be used for wood gasification (along with a dead cat or two). As for salt, it's okay for a batch of homemade sauerkraut.

"I could live on weeds and insects for free if I wanted to."

If so, that will be your prerogative. Toward the end of the default process, it might even be the best option for many.


240 posted on 09/04/2014 7:06:44 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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