Our Research in the News

The women whose stories appear in Pressure Cooker were part of a 5-year study. The results
of this study ​have been published in the book, and elsewhere, and have sparked
national conversation about family meals and the nation's health.

Book Reviews

• The Atlantic: Eat Food. All the  Time. Mostly Junk

• Pacific Standard Magazine: The Limits of Home Cooking​

• Gastronomica: Review: Pressure Cooker

Op-Eds

• NPR, The Salt: Why Ditching Processed Foods Won't Be Easy--The Barriers to Cooking From Scratch

• Politico: How Real Families Use Food Stamps

• The Guardian: To Close America's Diet Gap, We Must Recognize Food as a Human Right

• National Geographic: Why We Need to Rethink Home-Cooked Meals

​Print News Media

• Self: Why 'Just Cook More' Isn't the Universal Solution to Healthy Eating

• The Conversation: Time to Cook is a Luxury Many Families Don't Have

• Washington Post: Today's Parents Think They Lack the Time or Skill to Throw Dinner Parties: They're Missing Out

• New York Times: Can Home Cooking Reverse the Obesity Epidemic?

• Wall Street Journal: It Okay. Don't Cook. This Approach is Surprisingly Healthy.

• The Atlantic: Something is Changing in the Way People Eat at Home (Sinikka Elliott quoted)

• Vox: How Did Home Cooking Become a Moral Issue?

• Huffington Post: Stop Pressuring Families to Cook Homemade Meals: UBC Sociologist

• The Atlantic: The Allure (and Limits) of Home Cooking

• Consume This! Why "Eating for Change" Won't Fix the Food System

• Thinking Food: Interview With Authors of Pressure Cooker

• Ithaca College Q&A: "Pressure Cooker"

• Civil Eats: More Time in the Kitchen May Not Be the Answer to Feeding Kids Well

• ​New York Times: With Home Cooking, Is Feeding the Family, Feeding Resentment?

• New York Times: When Family Dinner Doesn't Satisfy

• Washington Post: Home-Cooked Family Dinner Isn't All it's Cracked Up to Be

• Washington Post: The Home-Cooked Family Dinner: Yes, it's a Burden for Moms But is it Worthwhile?

• Time: We Need to Stop Guilting Parents into Cooking Dinner

• PBS: Study Finds that Home-Cooking Disproportionately Burdens Mothers

Radio and Podcasts

• Mother Jones, The Bite: The Problem With Home-Cooked Meals

• Wisconsin Public Radio: Why Fewer People Are Eating Dinner at the Kitchen Table

• WUNC: Setting the Table: Why Dinnertime is About More Than Just Food

• CBC Radio Tapestry: Home Cooking is Not a Solution to Modern Family Woes, Says Sociologist

• CBC Maritime Noon: Interview with Sinikka Elliott and Joslyn Brenton

• Eat Your Words: Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won't Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It

• BYU Radio: Why Home Cookin' Ain't Always All That

• Wisconsin Public Radio: Is Home Cooking Always the Answer to Life's Problems?

• Slate: Mom and Dad Are Fighting: Free Lunch Edition

• WHYY: The Challenges of Healthy Home Cooking

• CBC Radio, On the Coast: Hell is Kitchen: Home-Cooked Family Meals Hardly a Comfort, New Book Argues

• GRAVY Podcast: Home-Cooked Expectations: Dinner Under Pressure

• Radio New Zealand: Myths Around Family Bonding

• Oxford Comment: Episode 50: The Politics of Food

• Scholars Strategy Network: Episode 60: Thinking Outside the Kitchen