ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Suzanne Lacy's 1976 video Anatomy Lesson #2: Learn Where the Meat Comes From in light of its commentary on cooking and gendered labor. The chapter begins with an overview of the work and Lacy's career through the early 1970s. It then discusses how Lacy's work examines cooking as a form of feminized labor through the parody of Julia Child's landmark television show The French Chef. In particular, this chapter illustrates Lacy's quotation of Child makes apparent the fictions perpetuated in cooking shows like The French Chef and how those falsehoods serve to obscure the actual labor involved in domestic food preparation. As such, this chapter considers the broader history of the obfuscation of household food labors with regard to gender, class, and race in light of the feminist critiques like Lacy’s.
