This chapter was pretty short and it presented the problem of cooking and preserving food without having a refrigerator. I liked how helpful Eric offered to be when it came sharing duties around the house. I also agree with Mary in not minding doing house chores as long it was her will to do so, and not imposed on her by others, or societal gender roles.
With canning being a rather long process and not really suited for short term food preservation, without being able to use a refrigerator or eat at restaurants, food becomes a frustrating issue. Eric contemplates a few options that seem unfeasible, and again, I can’t help but question why go through all that trouble just to be able to cook a meal. It’s pretty impressive how creative these people become in order to stick to their values and beliefs, when an easy alternative already exists, only that it requires technology.
Not having a meal waiting for him when he gets home after a long days’ work, Eric is getting frustrated, while it seems like Mary has almost given up on trying to come up with cooking ideas, it until she runs across a cookbook. I can understand that, as I don’t do much cooking myself, but agree that cooking a nice meal can be fun from time to time and looking at it as a sort of art or using creative recipes makes it more fun and easy.
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even now I think that food can still be an issue. There are so many places to eat that the process is sometimes arduous. But definently not as bad as learning how to can food. Ill let campbells worry about that.
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