Why Women Are in Charge of Leftovers
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
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.
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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. |
| 0:06.5 | This is the waves. Welcome to the waves, Slate's Podcast about Gender, Feminism, and the Odds and |
| 0:17.2 | End's leftover after Thanksgiving is done. Every episode you get a new pair of |
| 0:22.0 | women to talk about the thing we can't get off our minds. |
| 0:24.5 | Today you've got me, Rebecca Onion, a staff writer for sleet. |
| 0:28.0 | And me, Tamar Adler, a writer and contributing editor at Bogh magazine. |
| 0:32.0 | 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, |
| 0:39.0 | the food for it is more expensive this year |
| 0:41.0 | than it's been in previous years. |
| 0:43.5 | With that in mind, we'd like to talk about the way |
| 0:45.5 | the odds and ends, bits and bobs, |
| 0:47.3 | end up getting reused in American households |
| 0:49.9 | and how that reuse relates to gender, |
| 0:52.4 | both during this holiday that we're celebrating today |
| 0:55.3 | and beyond. |
| 0:57.5 | I am obsessed with this question, |
| 1:00.0 | and I am not super, super amazing at reusing like Tamares. |
| 1:04.6 | She's like a black belt in the practice. |
| 1:07.5 | I really do enjoy sort of the game of working |
| 1:09.7 | through everything in the fridge. |
| 1:11.0 | It feels very tangible to me and very pleasing. So I should say that in my |
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