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Day 15<br />
Make a Meal<br />
Kate and I have a special place in our hearts for Uncle Buzz’s house, where<br />
he often servces up a delicious “breakfast for dinner” meal of homemade<br />
waffles, hash browns, and sausage. Everything he’s made me has been singularly<br />
delicious. He’s a maestro in the kitchen and yet also a man’s man.<br />
I’ve always found this combination really impressive.<br />
In almost all primitive societies, the responsibility of preparing food fell<br />
to the women folk of the tribe. And with the arrival of the industrial revolution<br />
and the cult of domesticity, the home, and of course, the hearth,<br />
became the domain of women. While we’ve made great strides in equality<br />
since the days of sending our ladies out to pick berries and roots, the association<br />
between cooking and women persists.<br />
This is quite unfortunate. If you’ve ever taken the time to notice, most of<br />
the world’s top chefs are men, and cooking has a variety of manly benefits<br />
and qualities.<br />
We’ve previously established the manliness of cooking. And we’ve taught<br />
you how to know your way around a kitchen. So today we’re just going<br />
to do a little review of the reasons a man should be as comfortable in the<br />
kitchen as he is in the garage.<br />
1. Cooking makes you self-sufficient. A man strives to be as self-reliant<br />
as possible. But if he runs to Micky D’s every time there’s a rumble<br />
in his stomach and doesn’t even know how to make scrambled eggs<br />
for himself, then he falls short of being able to fully stand on his own<br />
two feet. Cooking is a valuable skill that grants us a greater degree<br />
of independence.