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Men can cook

Most cookery books or cookery shows teach you how to cook exotic foods. Elaborate dishes whose names are just as exotic as the places they come from. You have these internationally acclaimed chefs with chefy sounding names like Heston or Nigella teaching you how to make stuff that they promise, will leave your guests wanting for more. Here’s the thing, most people, way over 90% of them, don’t try out any of those dishes. You know this. I know that you know this. How many times has your mother or wife threatened to murder you in your sleep when you try to change channels when they are watching their favorite cookery shows? I’ve lost count of mine. And how many times have they cooked any of those dishes? That’s right.

He: Honey, quick! Turn on the news! There’s an alien invasion!!!

She: Not now. I’m watching Nigella make chocolate stuffed chocolate balls covered in gold wrappings, served with chocolate syrup.

He: That’s just chocolate all over…

You know that stare she gives you at that moment? Like she is trying to burn you with her laser vision? And it just doesn’t make any sense. She is never going to make those chocolate stuffed chocolate balls covered in gold wrappings, served with chocolate syrup. And even if she did make them, she still never would make them. She doesn’t even eat chocolates because she doesn’t want to get fat. Which practically means you don’t get to eat chocolates (I told you not to take her to Pulp Fiction. Now die). She goes back to making puliogares and chitrannas and dosaes and chapattis.

He: Honey, why don’t you make those chocolate balls you watched on TV the other day?

She: (looks at you like she is offended, insert melodramatic music) WHY DON’T YOU EVER APPRECIATE WHAT I DO FOR YOU? I WORK SO HARD TO FEED YOU AND YOUR KIDS, CLEAN UP AFTER YOU AND ALL YOU CAN THINK OF IS THOSE STUPID CHOCOLATE BALLS? WHY CAN’T YOU BE MORE SUPPORTIVE?


Translation: Why don’t you get your butt off the couch and help me with the chores.


By far the most rewarding “chore” of them all (and this is coming from personal experience) is cooking. It’s not that hard either. Once you get the basics right you can go n your own quite easily. Also, women tend think men who cook are sexy (not coming from my own experience). This is why you need to learn to cook.
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