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Category: Bee Wilson

The old injunction ‘Don’t talk with your mouth full’ is based on the presumption that, however multifunctional a mouth may be, it should only perform one job at a time. Humans have found a way around this limitation in the form of food writing.

Time, Job, Writing

I’d rather have a good food – lots and lots of different varieties of good foods – than search for something perfect.

Good, Good Food, Search

When eating becomes a matter of life or death, and each new bite is a celebration, you may discover that none of the other stuff was quite as important as sitting and breaking bread together.

The danger of growing up surrounded by these endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them, but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.

For thousands of years, servants and slaves–or in lesser households, wives and daughters–were stuck with the same pestles and sieves, with few innovations. This technological stagnation reflects a harsh truth. There was very little interest in attempting to save labor when the labor in question was not your own.

cooking, feminism, women-s-history

For thousands of years, servants and slaves–or in lesser households, wives and daughters–were stuck with the same pestles and sieves, with few innovations. This technological stagnation reflects a harsh truth. There was very little interest in attempting to save labor when the labor in question was not your own.

cooking, feminism, women-s-history