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He brings up the gender politics of the kitchen, labels them complex (so far, so good) and then dismisses them without addressing the complexities.
Then there's this lovely, sweeping, just plain wrong statement: "Women with jobs have more money to pay corporations to do their cooking, yet all American women now allow corporations to cook for them when they can." I am an American woman, with a job, and I only pay people to cook for me when I have to, or when I go out to a nice dinner (which, to me, is not a substitute for a home-cooked meal, but a different thing altogether).
Or, he says this: "It’s generally assumed that the entrance of women into the work force is responsible for the collapse of home cooking, but that turns out to be only part of the story," and then never says what the other part of the story is. He just talks about women working and what happened.
Basically, I think he's lazy with facts and figures, but I don't disagree with his goal: more people cooking on a day-to-day basis. Until we're all doing it, it's not enough. ;-)
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As a single person, its way to hard to shop for myself and get reasonable quantities I can actually use within a week or so. Whenever I try to start grocery shopping, three weeks later I'm throwing away what appears to be science experiments from the chill drawer. Its actually more cost effective to live on cans of tuna and take out
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That said, I find the picture above rather ironic.
08/18/09
Of course, complicated meals have their time and I have made some myself, but for daily meals something quicker and simpler is necessary.
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- eggs
- mustard
- tomato paste
- shallots
- garlic
- onions
- bacon
- vinegar and oil
- parmesan cheese
- herbs (basil, thyme and sage on my windwsill)
- lettuce of some kind
- cucumbers (my favorite food)
- pasta
- potatoes
With these on hand, you can make a ton of different things, and by adding various meats (or fish), you can really mix things up. In fact, these, plus seasonal fruits and veggies, and maybe some frozen peas, make up most of what I eat for lunch and dinner, both of which I make from scratch almost every day.
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-canned beans (black and white)
-Pomi brand chopped tomatoes
-cherry tomatoes
-lemons and limes
-capers
-butter
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-I don't want to cook when I get home from school at 8-10 oclock at night.
-I love cooking when I can make the time commitment.
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So is Michael Symon, with his shiny new James Beard award.
(Thus ends my shallow.)
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And I figured its cheaper to just buy the damn beer at the store.
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You're lucky you have a partner!
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Now my grandmother's been gone since 1995 (she passed away just two years shy of her 90th birthday) and my mother doesn't do as much canning anymore. But she still does the zucchini relish when faced with a bumper crop in her garden - this is pretty much every year, really - and everytime she does, I beg her to ship me some jars, because that shit is good, and I can't imagine making salad sandwiches or topping burgers and brats with anything else.