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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 5 Jul 2017

    Liberation! From a large % of life (mostly women's) spent cooking, thanks to tech & econ growth.http://humanprogress.org/blog/cooking-from-full-time-job-to-hobby …

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      2. Robin Hanson‏Verified account @robinhanson 6 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @chellivia

        I'd like to see data on % of time cooking from before 1900 US. 44hrs a week sounds high.

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      3. Perry E. Metzger‏ @perrymetzger 6 Jul 2017
        Replying to @robinhanson @sapinker @chellivia

        Perhaps, but OTOH, good estimates for time spent on many tasks from 100+ years ago are quite shocking.

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      4. Perry E. Metzger‏ @perrymetzger 6 Jul 2017
        Replying to @perrymetzger @robinhanson and

        Most surprising to me was a reasonably good estimate of 4-5 months of labor to make a single medieval tunic.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15IxF53AZfE …

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      5. Perry E. Metzger‏ @perrymetzger 6 Jul 2017
        Replying to @perrymetzger @robinhanson and

        44 hours citation on page 7 of this article by Deirdre McCloskey http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/pdf/Article_233.pdf …

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      6. Perry E. Metzger‏ @perrymetzger 6 Jul 2017
        Replying to @perrymetzger @robinhanson and

        That in turn points at http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5185.html … which Google Books seems to show cites two sources. Could go from there.

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      7. Chelsea Olivia Follett‏ @chellivia 6 Jul 2017
        Replying to @perrymetzger @robinhanson @sapinker

        Original source (add together time spent purchasing food, cooking, serving & dishwashing as listed on page 67): http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=hearth;idno=4217462 …

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      8. Perry E. Metzger‏ @perrymetzger 6 Jul 2017
        Replying to @chellivia @robinhanson @sapinker

        Thank you!

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      1. Andrew Cooper‏ @AndrewzCooper 5 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Robert Caro paints a vivid picture of the daily grind of women in the Texas hill country pre electricity in the 1st vol of his LBJ biog​.

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      1. Meg Walker‏ @MegWalkerInDC 5 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        I like this personal essay as an insight into our retro food heritage and food expectations across generations:https://www.realsimple.com/magazine-more/inside-magazine/life-lessons/angela-brown-secret-cake-recipe …

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      2. Agnes Ayton‏ @AgnesAyton 5 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        And we are getting fatter 🤔

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      3. Dominic Hardisty‏ @dombey 5 Jul 2017
        Replying to @AgnesAyton @sapinker

        Well I am anyway.

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      1. Wagner's music‏ @Wagnersmusic1 8 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Then why do women complain more today?

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      1. James Wallman‏ @jameswallman 6 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @HumanProgress

        also, horse riding... driving soon to follow, then work too, by mid century I think

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      1. marcluxen‏ @marcluxen 6 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        That is not good news, but bad news!

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      1. Sean Jason Webb‏ @SeanJasonWebb 6 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        And a reduction of sickness for everybody.

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      1. Cymba‏ @bossy_anne 5 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Takes two incomes to support the average family these days, women (and men?) resort to fast alternatives. Personally rather work than cook.

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      2. monki‏ @homosapienswhat 5 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        And for those sensitive to modern food additives and herbicides, cooking becomes one's second job, replacing hobbies and leisure time.

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      3. Sean Jason Webb‏ @SeanJasonWebb 6 Jul 2017
        Replying to @homosapienswhat @sapinker

        Nonsense.

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      4. monki‏ @homosapienswhat 6 Jul 2017
        Replying to @SeanJasonWebb @sapinker

        Hogwash

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      1. Paul Olivier‏ @PaulDOlivier 5 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Thanks Capitalism!

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