{"id":2390,"date":"2009-08-26T08:29:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T13:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2009-08-26T08:29:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T13:29:18","slug":"out-of-the-kitc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/out-of-the-kitc\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/02\/magazine\/02cooking-t.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1&#038;ref=magazine\">MIchael Pollan on Julie, Julia, and the Food Network:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How is it that we are so eager to watch other people browning beef cubes on screen but so much less eager to brown them ourselves?<\/a> For the rise of Julia Child as a figure of cultural consequence \u2014 along with Alice Waters and Mario Batali and Martha Stewart and Emeril Lagasse and whoever is crowned the next Food Network star \u2014 has, paradoxically, coincided with the rise of fast food, home-meal replacements and the decline and fall of everyday home cooking.<br \/>\nThat decline has several causes: women working outside the home; food companies persuading Americans to let them do the cooking; and advances in technology that made it easier for them to do so. Cooking is no longer obligatory, and for many people, women especially, that has been a blessing. But perhaps a mixed blessing, to judge by the culture\u2019s continuing, if not deepening, fascination with the subject. It has been easier for us to give up cooking than it has been to give up talking about it \u2014 and watching it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIchael Pollan on Julie, Julia, and the Food Network: How is it that we are so eager to watch other people browning beef cubes on screen but so much less eager to brown them ourselves? For the rise of Julia Child as a figure of cultural consequence \u2014 along with Alice Waters and Mario Batali&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/out-of-the-kitc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting-and-family-life","category-recipes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}