This post starts with a tweet that was just a reminder not to beat yourself up over not cooking a fresh home-cooked meal. Historically going all the way back to ancient Greece people either had cooks or ate at food stalls. Like they mention, feeling guilty about not cooking is a weird quirk of our society’s nuclear family model. This ties into The Problem With The Nuclear Family Model post quite well. Anyway the post in response to this goes into great detail about the history of the nuclear family, housewives, and cooking for your family:
(via: Vellum and Vinyl)
You don’t add milk to cake mix.
You’re correct – I’m sure she meant to say eggs.
It literally says “just add milk” on the advert boxes.
This. It is only since WW2 that women were expected to do it all themselves; pre-war even farmwives had the ability to hire a local teen girl to assist her. More women attended universities in the 1920s than in the 1950s – the backlash against women being educated and in the workforce was enormous. Even more enormous was the ensuing feminist movement, triggered by the uniquely oppressive culture of the 1950s and 1960s. I lived it.