From good wife, to kitchen goddess?
I’ve been thinking about the Colorado Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art Call for entries for the Kitchen Goddess Exhibition to hang in January 2007 in Lakewood, CO. In my head, I know what I want it to look like, most likely a fiber collage…maybe even a self portrait. However, I am still working out the details.
In the meantime, I was looking for a book from the 1950’s that my mother had given me. While I was in PA helping my mother move this past summer, we were going through some of her cookbooks…many of them decades old. She saved one for me that had an excerpt of how to be a good wife or something to that effect from the 1950’s. I searched high and low and I can’t seem to find the book. I did find a 1950’s Better Homes and Garden Decorating Book that begins…”Dear Homemaker,” that I’ll share with you another day.
In my frustration in not locating the “good wife” book, I turned to the internet and found this image. It is such a hoot to read the tips of the day! After reading the good wife guidelines, I most definitely fail as a good wife and I am pretty sure that I am not a kitchen goddess. Anyone else pass?
October 13th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
I started laughing when I read “Prepare the children”. LOL. Immediately I started thinking about the witch fatting up Hansel and Gretel! I must be tired.
October 13th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
I’m thinking that book may just be a wee bit out-dated huh?
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October 14th, 2006 at 3:52 am
OMG is that for real?!! Wow I’m glad I was only one year old when that was printed LOL and this is making me thing of the Stepford Wives movie! I could bet that article was written by a man!
but hey things were a lot different back then I guess.
October 14th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
Hi Janet…Mike and Lynette! I’m not sure if this is real, that’s why I was so frustrated at not finding the book my mom gave me. It was similiar to this snippit. I suppose I could go to the library and do a search.
My husband informed me that I fail miserably (according to these standards)! He was wondering why I don’t spruce up and have a fire ready for him when he gets home. He even said…It sounds like a man’s perspective.
October 14th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
I’d get an “F” too! Oh well!
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