SOC349H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nuclear Family, Ethical Eating, Delivery (Commerce)
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There are so many other activities going on in the process of producing a meal. Planning meals, travelling to food stores, selecting and purchasing products, growing food, preparing raw ingredients, cooking, baking, cleaning up, disposing of waste. Therefore, they are often overlooked and not taken into considerations. There are competing considerations in preparing a meal. Women are responsible for organizing conversations when having a meal. Emotional activities: a case of a mother fixing a meal for guests (guilt, love, stress etc ) It decreased and is hard to find these days as people began to own cars. It took longer to get food since there was no more food delivery (in terms of raw ingredients) Consider changes in: transportation and shopping: food delivery (milkmen, rising in standard. Germ theory of disease: sanitization, more cleaning, concerns about getting sick: rising kitchen technology. One pot dishes such as stew used to be very popular.