Women and Food
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Julia Child and Betty Cracker provide outline multiple techniques regarding the experiences of women cooking and the packaging of foods. The Comfort me with Apple book exhibit a reflection on the rampant use packed food and use of electric pieces of equipment to prepare food because of the post-era economic boom that reflects the cultural trends of the ancient times particularly the gender responsibilities and racial identities. Julia’s book evaluates how the middle-class housewives prepared their foods in sub-urban homes (Murphy, 2019). The book explores how both the immigrants and the rural women were not engaged in cooking because of historical continuity and the expression to the opinions that were founded on society.
The introduction of advertisements exhibited the promotion of racial stereotypes of how black women were discriminated and de-feminized in white homes. The existence of ethnicity among the immigrants was common, especially on the European Americans who could involve themselves in baking their distinct cuisines into general casseroles. Julia’s audience is based on a woman, especially on cooking (Hanson, 2020). Julia’s book encouraged young girls or adolescents to have a clue and skills on how to cook as a way of attracting boys. Julia defines cooking as the best option for the feminine mysteries that men can healthy appreciate women to engage in their daily operations. Both Julia and Betty Cracker remind women that their responsibility should be the provision of delicious and tasty food to their husbands once they are back from their working stations. The ability for women to reinforce essential housewive skills could help in making their families strong compared to women that failed to exercise their duties as women in society. Julia pointed out that the necessity of women should be reinforcing gender roles through the culinary literature that exhibit anxiety and uncertainty among women based on their prescribed responsibilities as housewives and mothers. Julia’s book helps in creating the difference between the superiority of white women and comparing the black woman to inferior beings. The book portrays the African-American women to be innate cooks that were naturally subject to servitudes.
According to both Julia and Betty, Cracker books help in the identification of women to sexual brutes, ugly, strong and resistant to patriarchal authority. The books encourage women to have an attitude of beating the biscuit doughs with all their human strength. Julia defines women as alluding slaves whole played the role of making biscuits. The books outline a continued social and cultural alienation that contribute to the collective memories of the American societal patterns. Julia appeals to the middle-class women to have invited experimentation to foreign cuisine. Julia provides a general outlook on the legacy of healthy food habits (Murphy, 2019). The embracement of joy during cooking creates a value of simple cooking habits that enhance sharing. Julia’s demand for fresh food exhibits moderation that enables a high level of satisfaction.
According to Julia, most of the cooking habits relied on the abundance of frozen, canned, and boxed availability of food products. Most of the recipes exhibited instructions on how to prepare food from scratch inclusive of ideologies on how to doctor up pre-packaged soups and products from meat. The advertisements that were based on food products provided an exhibition on how to simplify cooking for women as an indication of social class and prosperity. Most of the daily dishes were mostly preferred by women even though they were considered as distasteful among men. Women were anticipated to offer serving services that included sweet tarts, gelatin, or teacakes. The book provides an outline on how women should feed their loving husbands with food that they generally described as food that could sink into their teeth. Women were instructed to avoid food products that could insult the masculinity of men. Men’s foods were anticipated to be hearty, greasy, and spicy.
Julia focuses on outlining the essence of cooking to women and how they can make their families better through better cooking skills. Most men prefer women with outstanding abilities. The art of women relying on homemakers to prepare food for their husbands contribute greatly to divorce cases whereby the husbands turn to the maids because of their cooking skills.
Even though Julia and Betty Cracker focused on the role of women as housewives in society, they should get an identity that more than being a general housewive and serving a man. It is time for the society more so men to realize the essence of the contribution women can offer to society more than only cooking. Women can play multiple roles in the family more than just being housewives. Men should appreciate women to perform other roles in the family and the community. Even though Julia’s main focus is about cooking skills and abilities, she could have explored more on the role of women to the community.
Julia requested women to make cooking easy even though they belonged to different classes in society. However, why should Julia refer to women as home cooks, and they can perform more important roles in society? The art of cooking was a major domain for women in the mid-twentieth century, whereby the position of the chefs in the community was distinguished as exclusive to men (Thoreau, 2016). Children were exposed and explored their roles as they grow up; this is to enable them to take up their roles appropriately once they became of age. The introduction of electronic appliances enabled women to have options for the storage of food.
Society needs to have a different perspective on women. The attribute of regarding women as housewives and maids should stop. Both women and men should take up the role of the family and perform any duty without partiality. Even in the twentieth century, men have the motive to consider women as tools, and this habit should stop and create a general overview that everyone is equal without consideration of gender. The young generation should be trained on taking up every role without the division of responsibilities in the society. It is important to have a positive response to the children and mould them towards the acquisition of roles that can help increase equality within the community (Murphy, 2019). The attitude of considering women from middle and poor backgrounds as fewer beings should stop and using them as subjects because everyone is important regardless of their identity in the community. Julia’s book evaluates the role of women based on ancient times; however, in the current generation we live in, there is a need to define every role as important to society.
Conclusion
Julia focuses on how women should embrace themselves and make men happy instead of outlining on the essence of valuing the identity of everyone in society. The role of women should involve building and taking the role of ensuring that their children grow up with good morals and ethical standards rather than only regard men as their gods. The ancient generation failed to define the attribute of equality among human beings but focused on making man a more important human being than women. The cookbooks only outlined how women have a close relationship to food instead of helping women create an awareness of how they should also be regarded as equal to men. The failure by most of the concerned and relevant people to campaign for recognition of women will result in more disrespectful and disregard to women. Our sole responsibility should ensure that everyone is valued in the community even though they belong to a different gender. Julia fails to appreciate women even with the dedication they input to make their men, family, and the entire community happy. Anciently, a woman could get valued if only they could exhibit womanhood attributes, failure to which a lady could not be proposed for marriage.
References
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Murphy, E. (2019). Comfort Me with Apples. Canelo.
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Thoreau, H. D. (2016). Wild apples. Read Books Ltd.