The Sundial Writers Corner: Debra Quarles (10/21/2024)

Published October 21, 2024 at 8:00 AM CDT

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In midcentury home economic classes, girls learned to cook for their future husbands while boys took shop. But now kids might learn about healthy relationships or how to balance a bank account.

Sundial Writers Corner contributor Debra Quarles of Fayetteville TN hearkens back to a time when home economics classes actually taught cooking—and remembers a massive fail on her group's dessert assignment. Did her teacher remember the incident years later? Listen to find out.