Let’s Stop Idealizing the Home-Cooked Family Dinner

Slate ^ | September 3, 2014 | Amanda Marcotte

[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.

[CatherineofAragon]

I’d be in for the cookbook, too.

[Windflier]

I personally couldn't care less about other peoples spelling or grammar errors.

Fixed it for ya. You're welcome!

[Terry L Smith]

Dear Sarge,

I believe that the term is:
“It builds character.”

OY!! what characters we have become, eh?