The Waves: Why Women Are in Charge of Leftovers

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🗓️ 27 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate staff writer Rebecca Onion is joined by leftovers expert and cookbook author Tamar Adler, author of An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace, to talk about what to do with all your excess food. They start out by discussing why dealing with leftovers has historically fallen on women and the division of labor in their own homes. Then they shift gears and give ideas for new dishes to transform your leftovers into—from the gravy to the cranberry sauce. In Slate Plus, Rebecca and Tamar talk about whether cooking for a date and “engagement chicken” is feminist. Recommendations: Rebecca: Mowing, instead of raking, your leaves. Tamar: Making cleaning part of your work schedule and watching videos during your home exercise class. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Susan Matthews and June Thomas. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the waves. This is the waves. This is the waves. This is the waves. This is the waves.
0:12.8	Welcome to the waves Slates podcast about gender,
0:15.6	feminism and the odds and ends left over after Thanksgiving is done.
0:20.4	Every episode you get a new pair of women to talk about the thing we can't get off our minds.
0:24.7	Today you've got me, Rebecca Onion, a staff writer for Slate.
0:27.6	And me, Tamara Adler, a writer and contributing editor at Boat Magazine.
0:31.7	It's Thanksgiving, the grandest of leftover holidays.
0:36.0	And as the media has been telling us for the past couple of weeks, the food for it is more expensive this year than it's been in previous years.
0:42.6	With that in mind, we like to talk about the way the odds and ends, bits and bobs end up getting reused in American households.
0:49.4	And how that reuse relates to gender, both during this holiday that we're celebrating today and beyond.
0:56.4	I am obsessed with this question and I am not super, super amazing at reusing like Tamara's.
1:04.5	She's like a black belt in the practice. I really do enjoy sort of the game of working through everything in the fridge.
1:10.9	It feels very tangible to me and very pleasing.
1:14.0	So I should say that in my house, I'm married to a man and I've been with him for 15 years and I have one preschooler.
1:21.1	We have definitely specialized where he does all the fixing of objects and the more long-term money planning and car maintenance and actually vacuuming since he cares more about that.
1:31.2	And I do everything with food. Like he basically lives in a restaurant.
1:35.2	I do the planning, the cooking, the end game, everything.
1:38.6	I do sometimes wonder, I enjoy all this, but I do sometimes wonder about the degree to which I am sort of like not seeing the burden of food, the way the other people do.
1:47.1	Which also includes the burden of figuring out what to do with the food once the meal is over.
1:52.8	Which is for a lot of women in relationships like mine, I think it does fall to them.
1:57.0	And Thanksgiving is a time when this comes into focus.
1:59.5	Tomorrow, I know that you think about this constantly.
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