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  • A couple of years ago I read Salt: A World History which as expected was about salt. A large percent of the book was about how salt was used a preservative and talking about how it was done. This included recipes and examples of “domestics work” throughout the ages. Its easy to forget about how of this “housewife” work included preserving and rationing the food to last all year. This included a lot of different passage about how to butcher and then preserve different animals, not to mention, cheese making, pickling, fermenting etc. A lot of this work is highly specialized and labor intensive. So of course this man needs a wife since he wasn’t trained on these skills.