They played on women being sick and exhausted and said, well, look at this Campbell's soup.

It's even better than your own.

It's got all the nutrition of your own soup.

You just open the can, put it in the pot, and cook it up.

Or just pour a bowl of cereal with some milk.

You know, this is what they were telling women to do.

To compensate for the lack of energy and the lack of time, they were

telling them to eat cereal and canned foods. I see our generation, the millennials, the Gen X,

I see these generations reviving the old food waste and almost investigating, like, why are we all

sick?

I think a lot about women and food, mothers and daughters, culture, history, disruption,

disruption of the lifeways that governed human existence for hundreds of thousands of years before modern times,

the more recent disruptions in food, wisdom, food knowledge, effortless connection with what we ate, how we ate it, how we chose to eat with our bodies,

how that became so convoluted in recent generations.

I am the daughter of an 80s and 90s mom who was on a constant diet, who was afraid of food, who was not raised in any sort of grounded

food culture within her home. Both of my grandmas, both of whom I knew for many, many decades

in love so much, they were both food confused too, from my perspective now. I'm not sure if they would think that about themselves.

But looking back, they were housewives of the 40s and 50s.

And in this conversation with Kaylee, I mentioned this book,

something from the oven that I read a long time ago.

I'm rereading it now.

After this talk with Kaylee, I needed to get it again. And it's helping me to understand what happened to my

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