SOC349H5 Chapter 7: Joy of Cooking – Notes
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The point of cooking should be to find joy in it not for it to be a burden. Home cooked meals as a hallmark of good mothering, stable families, and the ideal of a healthy, productive citizen. The invisible labour that goes into cooking planning, grocery shopping, cooking, serving, and cleaning. It costs 1. 50 more per day per person to chose healthier alternatives (550 per person per year) Even middle-class mothers have to make trade-offs to save money. Low-income mothers skip meals, long lines at food pantries, applying for assistance. Women are more likely to ignore their own food interests in favour of what their husbands like (above even their children: claimed by sociologist marjorie devault.
