There's nothing like a nice home-cooked meal — at least, that's the message cooking show gurus, health experts and others bombard us with. "[Home cooking] was gonna solve any number of problems, from issues of obesity, diet-related diseases, family disintegration," Elliott told On The Coast guest host Margaret Gallagher. They felt a great deal of pressure to serve family meals but also found making those meals happen was pretty tough. Elliott said her research found families struggled with the costs of serving idealized meals and guilt when they could not serve the perfect meal. Many mothers, for instance, felt like failures if they couldn't serve the perfect meal.

Source: CBC News March 16, 2019 18:00 UTC