Curious texts that I stumble upon! I have serious issues with that foreward and the forceful inclusion of the word 'war' in every other recipe!
I understand the text was written with extreme zealousness and patriotic fervour at peak of the World War I. But it also shows a pattern, the U.S. or the American society has this strange fascination with women and her kitchen, and sadomasochistic love for the war. The care and concern for the soldiers is so dipped in nationalistic pride that biscuits are called war biscuits! No they do not care for the martyred, they care for the inflated sense of an individual in service of nation without realising the cost of war.
Though, I hate cooking the recipes are actually interesting. But it's the thought process behind them. The tone of mockery and nullification of women's contribution to economy is what enraged me.
I bet the women didn't need to be told how to ration their kitchens, because of war. Women for ages have been managing the household finances and food rations! So before we jump at the new discount day called Women's Day, we must remember, war is frenzy and it doesn't spare the most comforting and intimate place in a home, the kitchen!
And before I begin another long rant for women's day, women are not responsible for the wars that men have fought because their egos were bigger than their brain. But remember women have always paid the price for men's war mongering.
The UN security council had declared a decade back that Rape is a weapon of war. Think upon it, the war cry begins at top, it begins with monopolization of the individual minds, then the society, then the homes, then kitchens and finally the bodies.
Curious texts that I stumble upon! I have serious issues with that foreward and the forceful inclusion of the word 'war' in every other recipe!
I understand the text was written with extreme zealousness and patriotic fervour at peak of the World War I. But it also shows a pattern, the U.S. or the American society has this strange fascination with women and her kitchen, and sadomasochistic love for the war. The care and concern for the soldiers is so dipped in nationalistic pride that biscuits are called war biscuits! No they do not care for the martyred, they care for the inflated sense of an individual in service of nation without realising the cost of war.
Though, I hate cooking the recipes are actually interesting. But it's the thought process behind them. The tone of mockery and nullification of women's contribution to economy is what enraged me.
I bet the women didn't need to be told how to ration their kitchens, because of war. Women for ages have been managing the household finances and food rations! So before we jump at the new discount day called Women's Day, we must remember, war is frenzy and it doesn't spare the most comforting and intimate place in a home, the kitchen!
And before I begin another long rant for women's day, women are not responsible for the wars that men have fought because their egos were bigger than their brain. But remember women have always paid the price for men's war mongering.
The UN security council had declared a decade back that Rape is a weapon of war. Think upon it, the war cry begins at top, it begins with monopolization of the individual minds, then the society, then the homes, then kitchens and finally the bodies.
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