... household skills lessons in primary schools (boys would betrained in woodworking). Household education, including basic cooking,started in a few schools in the 1870s, aiming at the formation of ... to explain the advantages— heatingthe food within minutes, while not burning the wrapping—microwaveswere quickly integrated into Belgian kitchens after 1985.A bourgeois kitchen, late nineteenth ... women spent cooking is linked to income class and age. Thehigher the income, the less time women spent on cooking: 58 minutesfor the lowest incomes and 41 minutes for the highest incomes, or a...