Bra. Vo. We’ve been discussing this very issue in my feminist theory classes for years.

Also, my family is Italian, and our recipes and techniques have been passed down for years. (Example: there is no “measuring” for my grandmother’s spaghetti; you learn by watching, and there is no written down recipe for her roast, you just memorized it.) I think that, perhaps, as more women are entering into careers and having bank accounts of their own, they do cook less, but I also think that consumerist America is moving towards a single culture instead of several separate, defined ones, and that it killing our traditional passing down of all sorts of health, history, and food knowledge for both genders.

And remember: What Would Jackie O’ Do. She was always suspicious of Martha Stewart, because she didn’t believe cooking and keeping house should be commercialized – that you should have to buy a certain line of products to cook or clean the “right” way. As always, there’s something to what Jackie says.