Sorry I didn't post yesterday. Here's a food-related thought to make up for it, though. Today in the archives I'm re-reading a couple of old favorites, What Katy Did at School and Little Men, because of course my research is based on what I read here at the Library, so if I want to include them I should look at them here, y'know?
So anyway: I was thinking about Little Men and the chapter in which Nan and Daisy are given a little kitchen to work in, so they learn to cook. I was thinking about how this is probably one of the first Domestic Science lessons in a school story, because of course before this girls would have learned to cook before school, right? Well, wrong, because Daisy's mother, Meg, didn't know how to cook until she was married, which throws this theory out the window.
And here's the thing: why on earth didn't Meg know how to cook? Was Marmee assuming all of her girls would be able to keep a servant? I swear, for girls who cry poor as often as those March girls did, they sure were entitled!
So no Feast of the Day for yesterday, because Meg wouldn't have been able to cook one when she was a schoolgirl.
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