“The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.” MotherAdviceCookingKitchenDishesWisest Author:Lela Rose
“My mother was the worst cook ever. In school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.” SchoolMotherWorstCookingCooksLunchArticlesClothings Author:Rita Rudner
“As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life... My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.” WayWantGivingChildrenCountryEnoughMotherGamesSoundFoodGive MeCookingRaisedBottomBreadMy ChildrenDesperateCulinaryStaffPotatoesBarrelsRelishPorkBread And ButterPork Barrel Author:James F. Cooper
“My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.” PeopleMotherCookingDinnerThirtyKitchenGrandmotherFarmsTypicalMy GrandmotherRecipes Book:If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First Source: If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First
“Most baby books also tend to romanticize the mother who stays at home, as if she really spends her entire day doing nothing but beaming at the baby and whipping up educational toys from pieces of string, rather than balancing cooing time with laundry, cleaning, shopping and cooking.” IfsBookHomeMotherPiecesBabyCookingEducationalStringsShoppingToysCleaningDoing NothingLaundryStay At HomeWhipping Author:Susan Chira