I'd like to see data on % of time cooking from before 1900 US. 44hrs a week sounds high.
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Perhaps, but OTOH, good estimates for time spent on many tasks from 100+ years ago are quite shocking.
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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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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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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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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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Thank you!
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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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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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And we are getting fatter

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Well I am anyway.
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Then why do women complain more today?
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also, horse riding... driving soon to follow, then work too, by mid century I think
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That is not good news, but bad news!
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And a reduction of sickness for everybody.
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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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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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Nonsense.
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Hogwash
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Thanks Capitalism!
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