Why A Child’s Place is In the Kitchen: Relating To and Through Food

Mar 23, 2009 by Anna Migeon

This post was featured in the Charlotte Mason blog carnival on June 9, 2009

The question is not,—how much does the youth know? When he has finished his education—but how much does he care? And about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? And therefore, how full is the life he has before him?  — Charlotte Mason

Psalm 31:8 Thou hast set my feet in a large room.

My French mother-in-law, Lucienne, once told me early in my marriage that she thought that cooking well helped one keep one’s husband. …