Bring Back Home Ec!

Once, kids?well, girls?learned how to make a meal and keep a home by helping their mothers. Around the turn of the 20^th century, home-economics classes codified this knowledge, introducing future wives to nutrition, budgeting, hygiene, and, of course, cooking. But, as Helen Zoe Viet wrote in a 2011 op-ed for the New York Times, those lessons eventually so permeated society that ?they came to seem like common sense. As a result, their early proponents came to look like old maids stating the obvious instead of the innovators and scientists that many of them really were. ? Today we remember only the stereotypes about home economics, while forgetting the movement?s crucial lessons on healthy eating and cooking.?

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