Interesting. I also wonder how geography ties into this. I know my mother's crazy-ish relationship to food was really nurtured by growing up on Long Island in the fifties. Some of it came from her mother, for sure, and some of it was just part of the zeitgeist. I do have to say, as regulated and judgmental as my mother could be about food, she was also all about abundance and nurturing us with foods we loved. In fact, she used to have anxiety dreams about having dinner parties and running out of food.
Interesting. I also wonder how geography ties into this. I know my mother's crazy-ish relationship to food was really nurtured by growing up on Long Island in the fifties. Some of it came from her mother, for sure, and some of it was just part of the zeitgeist. I do have to say, as regulated and judgmental as my mother could be about food, she was also all about abundance and nurturing us with foods we loved. In fact, she used to have anxiety dreams about having dinner parties and running out of food.