Jennifer Rachel Dutch
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496818751
- eISBN:
- 9781496818799
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496818751.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
A variety of products market themselves as a solution to bridge the gap between the idealized picture of home cooking and the reality of feeding the family on a daily basis. Dream Dinners meal ...
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A variety of products market themselves as a solution to bridge the gap between the idealized picture of home cooking and the reality of feeding the family on a daily basis. Dream Dinners meal assembly, Hello Fresh meal kit delivery service, Stouffer’s frozen dinners, fast foods, and various other “meal solutions,” appropriate the same language as the death of home cooking jeremiahs to sell their products as the way to reap the benefits of home cooking with less work. Despite the fact that these convenience products are often cast as the villain in the death of home cooking narrative, Americans use these products in complex ways that destabilize notions of the meaning of “real” home cooking.Less
A variety of products market themselves as a solution to bridge the gap between the idealized picture of home cooking and the reality of feeding the family on a daily basis. Dream Dinners meal assembly, Hello Fresh meal kit delivery service, Stouffer’s frozen dinners, fast foods, and various other “meal solutions,” appropriate the same language as the death of home cooking jeremiahs to sell their products as the way to reap the benefits of home cooking with less work. Despite the fact that these convenience products are often cast as the villain in the death of home cooking narrative, Americans use these products in complex ways that destabilize notions of the meaning of “real” home cooking.
