Episode description
Buckle up—today's episode was inspired by something that got me really worked up this week: "I think home-baking is one of the stupidest things anyone can engage in," says Rick Easton of Jersey City's Bread and Salt.
This episode is about shoulds and supposed-tos, baking at home, and the ways we devalue certain kinds of labor. Whether or not home-baking is your thing, you'll recognize the way value is narrowly defined by culture and, I think, gain new language for the worthiness of work that doesn't fit the capitalist mode.
Footnotes:
- "Leave the Baking to the Professionals" by Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker
- Bread, and How to Eat It by Rick Easton and Melissa McCart
- "On Bread" via From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy
- "What could 'food is political' mean?" via From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy
- King Arthur Baking: Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Loaf
- Breadhead by Greg Wade
- History of Low-Carb Diets on Wikipedia
- "I love bread!" Weight Watchers commercial
- "Home Cooking can be a Feminist Act" by Nigella Lawson
- "Men More Likely Than Women to be Seen as Brilliant" via NYU
- "When Male Chefs Fear the Specter of 'Women's Work'" by Meghan McCarron, Eater
- "The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power" by Audre Lorde, YouTube
- "The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power" by Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
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