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And now, I am caught up with listing my reading...
28. Invasive Procedures... Orson Scott Card
29. What Ever Happened to Mom's Apple Pie...John Keats
30. My Life in France... Julia Child
31. Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life... Toby Cecchini
What ever happened to Mom's Apple Pie is another history of food culture in America book. I am going to have to stop reading them, because they piss me off so badly.
We aren't going to be able to go back to a mom stays at home family. All of the food culture books lament the fact that we don't cook anymore, and we do, it's not the way things used to be.
I get that half of our problem with food is that we don't know where it comes from - people used to know where their food was grown, where the meat came from, and got better produce and meat because of it (I really don't think this was EVER true in cities, and some of the books support that idea). I get that food is healthier when cooked from scratch.
But we aren't living in a society where the average family can make ends meet with only a single wage earner. Some do, it's true. But even if they could afford to keep one person at home...
And here's a fact that most of those books gloss over. Families used to be larger. Mom wasn't doing all the cooking and cleaning herself. She had daughters. If she had no daughters, odds were that a niece or younger cousin would be staying with the family to help Mom out (and help ease the need to support another mouth at the niece/cousin's family).
Making all your own food from scratch takes time. Growing your own kitchen garden takes time.
Families have changed, and we need to come up with a new model for healthy eating that doesn't involve having to make everything from scratch. Our culture has moved on, and trying to move it back is just going to put more guilt on the shoulders of the mothers who don't have the time (and help) they used to have.
Blah.
28. Invasive Procedures... Orson Scott Card
29. What Ever Happened to Mom's Apple Pie...John Keats
30. My Life in France... Julia Child
31. Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life... Toby Cecchini
What ever happened to Mom's Apple Pie is another history of food culture in America book. I am going to have to stop reading them, because they piss me off so badly.
We aren't going to be able to go back to a mom stays at home family. All of the food culture books lament the fact that we don't cook anymore, and we do, it's not the way things used to be.
I get that half of our problem with food is that we don't know where it comes from - people used to know where their food was grown, where the meat came from, and got better produce and meat because of it (I really don't think this was EVER true in cities, and some of the books support that idea). I get that food is healthier when cooked from scratch.
But we aren't living in a society where the average family can make ends meet with only a single wage earner. Some do, it's true. But even if they could afford to keep one person at home...
And here's a fact that most of those books gloss over. Families used to be larger. Mom wasn't doing all the cooking and cleaning herself. She had daughters. If she had no daughters, odds were that a niece or younger cousin would be staying with the family to help Mom out (and help ease the need to support another mouth at the niece/cousin's family).
Making all your own food from scratch takes time. Growing your own kitchen garden takes time.
Families have changed, and we need to come up with a new model for healthy eating that doesn't involve having to make everything from scratch. Our culture has moved on, and trying to move it back is just going to put more guilt on the shoulders of the mothers who don't have the time (and help) they used to have.
Blah.
