Monday, 20 July 2015

As a political matter, is home cooking today a reactionary or progressive way to spend one's time?

Is cooking a form of oppression, as many feminists argued (with some justification, I might add) in the 1960s? Back in the 1970s, KFC ran billboards depicting a family-sized bucket of fried chicken under the slogan "Women's Liberation." And so perhaps it was, and still is for many women even now... As a political matter, is home cooking today a reactionary or progressive way to spend one's time?

M. Pollan, Cooked (2013),131-2

The way I do it, it is definitely reactionary.

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