Sarah Marshall

And do you have a sense?

I guess there's like our culture is a lot less unified maybe today, but at least from like, you know, from an anecdotal perspective or whatever kind of sense you have of this, like, is there an ideal kitchen today?

Like, what do those look like to you?

Well, or I guess in the sense that maybe in the like, if we're talking about, you know, let's say you and I are settling on a farm in Connecticut.

Mm hmm.

And I'm imagining a scenario described in one of my favorite books, More Work for Mother.

Mm hmm.

And we would like basically live in one room probably as like, you know, small farmers and kind of like cottage industrialists and people like, you know, kind of doing a lot of little different kinds of work here and there.

And we would probably have like a hearth

with a fire with like a big pot or a cauldron, I guess, on top of it.

We would be having some stew, probably.

I mean, is that fair to say?

More or less.

You might have a cast iron stove.

And that you're like throwing a dinner party and having and like being your own staff in a way.

And this is maybe like part of the consolidation of the middle class and post-war America.

Yeah.

Well, it was like they were presented to women as if they were cars.

And it's interesting because it feels like the consolidation of the middle class apparently involved women pulling off even more stuff.

Yes.