O Happy Day (fish stew recipe)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 15 10:38:13 PST 2000


Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer wrote:


>They'll never know the dignity of inspired labor, of a physical job
>well-done, of the sweet soreness one feels the day after some heavy lifting,
>hammering, digging.

That, like Chuck's


>The soul needs labor. The deep, hard, sweating, and crushing kind
>of labor that connects every fiber and bone of the body to the
>earth...

sounds like a load of organicist claptrap to me. And also extremely masculinist - I don't see any evocation of the beauties of cooking and cleaning and caregiving, just the manly pursuit of grunting toil.

Doug



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