Food Cultures & Home & Corporate

Lets see, it depends on the night in my house. We are never in a rush when it comes to dinner because after dinner we go to bed. My mom always cooks something new for us to try. Generally we only eat dinner in front of the TV on Thursday nights, for Greys Anatomy. My mom usually makes a big meal on Monday or Tuesday and then we eat left overs Wednesday and Thursday. Most weekends we eat out somewhere, Red Lobsters or Edo's or Friday's or Giovanni's. On, TV dinner and family life are always portrayed as the woman cooking, and the man and kids waiting at the table. That's how it is here, depending on the day. Sometimes my mother may not feel like cooking and some nights I cook and some nights we heat up left overs. I would guess that a large majority of women cook for their families and the man is waiting or watching TV and possibly on a rare occasion helping. I only see men cooking for women in movies, but I will say that for special occasions like Mother's Day or Birthdays men do their part but women are going to be stuck in the kitchen for a while. Even in marketing, women are always the one cooking. It's always some 'happy' Caucasian female standing in the kitchen with a 'happy' Caucasian male smiling over a steaming glass dish of baked whatever. But in reality the woman is not smiling the man is probably downing his 3rd beer and the kids are in the back playing X-box. Corporate America likes to portray these happy scenes in order to encourage people to buy their products. So that they typically unhappy mother may buy a hot steaming expensive dish of 'home-made' crap.