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