Good food --wholesome, authentic food-- is not just for pleasure these days. It's increasingly seen as a solution for a wide variety of social ills, from obesity to global warming to broken communities.

The Feminine Mystique the book, by Betty Friedan, taught millions of American women to regard housework, cooking included, as drudgery, indeed, to regard it as a form of oppression. Feminism killed home cooking. Feminism destroyed family dinner. Feminism made us fat.