When a culture has a very sophisticated and complicated cuisine, that tells you something about the historical role of women in that society. Essentially that creating a complicated cuisine doesn't leave women much time for doing anything else. And it tells us other things about that society. These tend to be communities of the cloister, the purdah.
Slaving over a hot stove? No.
When a culture has a very sophisticated and complicated cuisine, that tells you something about the historical role of women in that society. Essentially that creating a complicated cuisine doesn't leave women much time for doing anything else. And it tells us other things about that society. These tend to be communities of the cloister, the purdah.
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