What Works | Small Business Podcast With Tara Mcmullin

Buckle up—today's episode was inspired by something that got me really worked up this week: "I think home-baking is one of the stupidest things anyone can engage in," says Rick Easton of Jersey City's Bread and Salt. This episode is about shoulds and supposed-tos, baking at home, and the ways we devalue certain kinds of labor. Whether or not home-baking is your thing, you'll recognize the way value is narrowly defined by culture and, I think, gain new language for the worthiness of work that doesn't fit the capitalist mode.Footnotes: "Leave the Baking to the Professionals" by Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker Bread, and How to Eat It by Rick Easton and Melissa McCart "On Bread" via From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy "What could 'food is political' mean?" via From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy King Arthur Baking: Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Loaf Breadhead by Greg Wade History of Low-Carb Diets on Wikipedia "I love bread!" Weight Watchers commercial "Home Cooking can be a Feminist Act" by Nigella Lawson "Men More Likely