Why Home Cookin' Ain't Always All That

Why Home Cookin' Ain't Always All That

Constant Wonder

Food Biodiversity, Pressure to Cook, Zoos, Religion and International Policy

Episode: Food Biodiversity, Pressure to Cook, Zoos, Religion and International Policy

  • Apr 8, 2019 8:00 pm
  • 28:43 mins

Guests: Sinikka Elliott and Sarah Bowen, coauthors with Joslyn Brenton, of "Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won't Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It" Everyone knows that if more people cooked from basic ingredients at home the planet would be greener and families would be healthier and happier. Right? But what if that's simply not true? What if the "joy of cooking" was always overblown?  And what if chasing that myth actually harms many families?