As I mentioned in my last post, chapter 1 is about men and cooking. The author was talking about the tendecy of men's cooking from the point of view from male cooking mystique.
In many families in America and in many other countries, cooking was a women's thing. It doesn't mean that men don't cook, but there are more cooking for women than men some what...!
One of the reason men don't cook as women is thought that men don't like to be thought as feminine by cooking. From this, we can see that there is an image of cooking=women? For example women like to cook of course lunch and dinner, but they really like to cook cakes and sweets. On the other hand, men is thought to be the cook only at barbecues and steaks, which makes them look masquline. I thought this fact was quite interesting.
Before I finish this post, I'd like to introduce a funny fact that was written, "Men sometimes cook meals other than steak and barbecue, but this event should be a rare event. When men do cook, no matter how simple the meal, it is caused for applause. If men desire to learn how to cook, they will be inevitably be better than any women can be." I thought this could be true for many men in the old days, but I think there are many people who cook recently. And I don't know if this part is pharsing, men or not, but this book is written in a women's point of view so...
I learned quite a few things in the first chapter, it was interesting! I'll try to read a little bit more before my next post and find other fact to introduce :)
I just watched a great Indian film called "English Vinglish," about an Indian wife who ran a catering company. In one scene she told a new French friend of hers, rather cynically, that when a woman cooks, it's considered as a matter of course, but when a man cooks, it's considered art. There's some truth to that.
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