I eat takeout or Soylent for ~99 percent of my meals. The fact that we assume everyone (esp. women) should be forced to take on, IDK, 10 hours of cooking labor every week when there are efficiencies to be gained by outsourcing it … it's totally nuts. https://t.co/cA3AumFRBj — Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt) March 6, 2019

Conservatives are significantly more likely to describe themselves as 'masculine' than Liberals. Among Whites, roughly 1 in 3 'very liberals' say they're not at all or not too masculine pic.twitter.com/GlX3Mm2X2v — Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) January 25, 2019

I had to google solyent.



You need help. — S.V. Dáte (@svdate) March 6, 2019

it's a good product — Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt) March 6, 2019

no — S.V. Dáte (@svdate) March 6, 2019

This is a huge part of the appeal of cooking for me. — Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) March 7, 2019

that's great! nothing wrong with loving cooking. but it's the only hobby like this where there's big social pressure to engage in it — Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt) March 7, 2019

This idea of getting “back to the kitchen” suggests that there was a time — not now, but before — where meals were healthy and wholesome, and if only we could get back to that place and cook like our great-grandmothers did, we’d all be better off. But … did that past ever exist?

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Sarah Bowen: This is an image of white middle-class families. It’s not an image of immigrant families, who were eating different foods. It isn’t an image of urban poverty, of people who were crowded together and undernourished. It doesn’t make room for other types of people.



Sinikka Elliott: And almost all of these white middle-class families had at least one domestic servant, and many had more. These were families who were not doing this work merely on their own — they were actually paying people to cook and to clean. Between 1880 and 1940, almost all American upper- and middle-class families had at least one domestic servant they employed. By 2001, one in about 162 households had a domestic servant. That’s a huge shift.



Sarah Bowen: We have a lot of anxiety today about whether American families are cooking. “Have we forgotten how to cook?!” One piece of information is that we are still cooking quite a bit, but another piece of information is that even in the past, Americans weren’t cooking all their food. They were often relying on low-income women of color to cook a lot of it, and they still are. It’s just that it used to be in the house, and now it’s in restaurants.