Welcome, class! This will be the first of many Friday “Home Economics Lessons,” links to the random cooking-, farming-, dancing-, creating- and Brooklyn-spectacularity-related things we’ve been reading about throughout the week.
Let’s begin with this article in Bust magazine, via Stem + Leaf, about the history of home economics. Writer Emily McCombs notes, “From feminist roots to gender-role reinforcement and back again: this history of home economics might surprise you.”
Also via Stem + Leaf, check out You Are Where You Eat, a new Web site that let’s folks across the country type in their zip code to find farms, farmers’ markets and CSAs nearby (although, right now, it seems woefully under-informed; a search for Greenpoint’s zip code yields a “closest result” 45 minutes away).
Kim O’Donnel at True/Slant has compiled her vegetarian cookbook recommendations. “It’s extensive all right,” she writes, “a testament to how far the meatless cookbook world has gone from lentil loaf extravaganzas. Is it definitive? Not by a long shot. But I’d plunk my money down for any of these titles. And feel free to add to the list if you see something missing.”
Lastly, Well + Good NYC digs Mari Irizarry’s oatmeal craisin cookie jars, which got me thinking about what other kinds of foods could be jarred up in gift form like this. Assorted sprouts, perhaps?
Happy Friday! I’m dreaming of places that look more like this (well, minus the wolf fights)-
and less like where I am right now:
