is a rant against one of my favourite pet peeves ( I have MANY :P)
Bachelor cooking:
To wilfully misquote a favourite author, IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man (not in possession of a wife) must be in want of dumbed down cooking instructions :P.
So what about single women? How come nobody has published simplified cookbooks for unmarried girls? Anatomical difference automatically equips you with cooking skills? Unscientific ,much?
I am beginning to get annoyed by the GENDERING of these household debates.Like all gender stereotypes the term is unscientific and derogatory to BOTH men and women. While men are allowed be retarded creatures who can't feed themselves unless given really simplified instructions, a woman MUST by default be a kitchen goddess, regardless of her inclinations or any other responsibilities or claims on her time.
Thus depriving men of an essential survival skill, and women the choice of individual likes and dislikes.
There are PEOPLE who like cooking and find it relaxing and there are others who find it a chore and a bore, regardless of what they are equipped with down there.
This blog is mainly to record my own learning curve in the kitchen while simultaneously helping the latter to have reasonably good, healthy and TASTY food and drop out of the office-canteen/punjabi dhaba/andhra mess/ dependent population(why I started cooking in the first place). The goal is optimise and ultimately reduce kitchen time, through experimentations, using various cooking techniques, shortcuts and forgetting orthodoxy. Of course, one could also hire a cook, like a lot of good Bengalis do :) .. but you know.. in case you can't find one or they don't work out to be worth the expense.Which means cut down recipes(give or take a few exceptions) simplified menus, because while I enjoy cooking, at the end of the day(literally) there are so many other things I would rather do.
Bachelor cooking:
To wilfully misquote a favourite author, IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man (not in possession of a wife) must be in want of dumbed down cooking instructions :P.
So what about single women? How come nobody has published simplified cookbooks for unmarried girls? Anatomical difference automatically equips you with cooking skills? Unscientific ,much?
I am beginning to get annoyed by the GENDERING of these household debates.Like all gender stereotypes the term is unscientific and derogatory to BOTH men and women. While men are allowed be retarded creatures who can't feed themselves unless given really simplified instructions, a woman MUST by default be a kitchen goddess, regardless of her inclinations or any other responsibilities or claims on her time.
Thus depriving men of an essential survival skill, and women the choice of individual likes and dislikes.
There are PEOPLE who like cooking and find it relaxing and there are others who find it a chore and a bore, regardless of what they are equipped with down there.
This blog is mainly to record my own learning curve in the kitchen while simultaneously helping the latter to have reasonably good, healthy and TASTY food and drop out of the office-canteen/punjabi dhaba/andhra mess/ dependent population(why I started cooking in the first place). The goal is optimise and ultimately reduce kitchen time, through experimentations, using various cooking techniques, shortcuts and forgetting orthodoxy. Of course, one could also hire a cook, like a lot of good Bengalis do :) .. but you know.. in case you can't find one or they don't work out to be worth the expense.Which means cut down recipes(give or take a few exceptions) simplified menus, because while I enjoy cooking, at the end of the day(literally) there are so many other things I would rather do.
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