Alas, I can't contribute much data for you about the lower middle class. My mother hates cooking and hasn't passed on any recipes. Her mother was an excellent cook, but the kind that does a handful of this, pinch of that type cooking. We have identified the cookbook she mostly used, but haven't really been able to reproduce anything due to the fudge factor.
I saw the thread you are quoting from here, and wondered if the class divide weren't really about foodies vs. non-foodies rather than a sense of secrecy per se. If you ask me or my sister for a recipe, we'll write it up and turn it over with no fanfare, whereas my hubby the chef likes to discuss provenance and mods, etc., at length. (And yes, he is from a higher socio-economic class than I am.)
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Date: 2012-05-17 08:31 pm (UTC)I saw the thread you are quoting from here, and wondered if the class divide weren't really about foodies vs. non-foodies rather than a sense of secrecy per se. If you ask me or my sister for a recipe, we'll write it up and turn it over with no fanfare, whereas my hubby the chef likes to discuss provenance and mods, etc., at length. (And yes, he is from a higher socio-economic class than I am.)