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[quote=Anonymous]Historically speaking, having one person cook for a nuclear family every day is not really the norm.  In ancient Rome, people routinely purchased food from commercial kitchens (early food truck culture!).  Wealthy people hired cooks for their household.  Other people often had communal cooking, or lived with extended family and one person cooked for the whole group.  People lived in boarding houses or dormitories or barracks.  The idea that every woman (and it's always the woman) is expected to be a good cook and cook daily meals for her nuclear family is a culturally specific idea.  Or even that every meal had to be cooked, rather than people eating bread and cheese or fruit, or whatever premade thing they had.

Certainly, not everyone likes cooking, or was taught how to cook (especially how to cook nutritious, balanced, affordable meals on a schedule for a family every single day), or has the time to cook.  There are probably people amazed that you don't know how to change your own oil or install your own plumbing or grow your own food or whatever thing it is that you outsource.  [/quote]

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