In Reply In their letter, Morain and Barnhill appropriately point out that child caregivers come in many shapes, sizes, sexes, and situations and that focusing on mothers for cooking is inadequate for today’s pluralistic household.¹ I agree wholeheartedly with the premise that men are as deficient as women in cooking skills; yet, there is plenty of evidence that the history and art of cooking is passed from mother (rather than from father) to children.² Indeed, I believe that all children are now vulnerable owing to the lack of intergenerational transmission of food preparation and cooking education and that it is imperative that we as a society provide for all children to learn how to cook as an adult survival skill. To wit, I wrote a 2012 Huffington Post article titled “Bring Back ‘Home Ec,’ and This Time for Boys Too.”³

在答复中，莫兰（Morain）和巴恩希尔（Barnhill）恰当地指出，保姆的体形，大小，性别和处境多种多样，仅靠母亲做饭不足以解决当今的多元化家庭。¹我完全同意这样一个前提，即男人和女人在烹饪技能上一样缺乏；然而，有大量证据表明，烹饪的历史和艺术是从母亲（而不是父亲）传给孩子的。²的确，我相信由于缺乏代际食品准备和烹饪教育的传承，所有儿童现在都处于弱势地位，作为一个社会，我们必须让所有儿童作为成年人的生存技能来学习如何做饭。我写了2012年《赫芬顿邮报》标题为“带回“家庭教育”，而这次也是男孩”的文章。³