Cooking is Serious Business

 From Laura at The History Desk:

Let’s deep dive into number 1: A love of food is a requirement for anyone who would cook well. That means your mother or your wife, if they don’t have that basic love of food, they will not cook well. Roy loved to eat, so he learned to cook.

The majority of people know what they like to eat, but they do not know how to make it. Nor are they interested in the process. To think that every wife and mother, aka, “the women” should be interested in creating interesting meals, the analogy is this: a prospective ballet dancer without that magical arch in her feet, will not make it past the elementary classes of dance. And cooks without good smelling and tasting abilities, won’t cut it in the kitchen. Them’s the facts.

Just as dancers are few and far, so too are good cooks. Women are not born with a cooking gene. What women are born with is a proclivity to nurture. Duh, right? That is why I think they make better doctors. For a woman to be a doctor, she gets to be the mother with knowledge and authority. (Read more.)