I ended up with both married daughters who love to cook. How did that happen? They were such picky eaters growing up I thought they’d need to go to mac & cheese rehab as adults. But not so. The oldest married into an Italian family, so that may explain some of the conversion to dedicated cook on her part.
Today I picked up a used cookbook for my youngest daughter because it fits her style, and it was only 25 cents. OK, I confess, I got it at the Swap Shop at the town dump (err, Recycling Center). Always the Yankee – what a Dad, huh?
So the book is a 1996 release called: Wild Women in the Kitchen: 101 Rambunctious Recipes & 99 Tasty Tales by The Wild Women Association (of course). Peppered (groan) with not only great recipes, but gender-basted (more groans) anecdotes and humor, its well-worth the price! If you don’t believe me, here’s a tasty sampling:
A Rose by Any Other Name. Ever notice how many of the pet names and metaphors for women are based on food? … honey, honey-bun, cream puff, cheesecake, muffin, dumpling, pumpkin, sweetie, sweetie pie, cutie pie, cookie, cupcake, baby cakes, sugar, sugar buns, a chick, a peach, a hot tomato, a hot tamale, a tart, a dish, etc. Concocted by men, says feminist Brinlee Kramer disapprovingly, they “exemplify the oral fixation men are all subject to.” Take that you guys!
My response: The book is still in print and men are still around. So something must be going OK.
5 comments:
Perhaps our daughters like to cook because they picked it up from their mother. But I realize that wasn't your point ...
An excellent influence and continuing fount of cooking knowledge. So I give credit where credit is due!
I look forward to the cookbook! And to think, one of John's faaavorite dinners is *dramatic pause* homemade mac & cheese! See? You were just preparing me!
I mostly learned to cook because I hope to be half as good as my mother someday and because I was embarrassed that my husband could cook better than I could!
Women call men by food names as well. I think the simpler explanation - that people like food and like their romantic partners - is more to the point.
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