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post #61 of 64
7/7/09 at 3:06pm
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I'm a horrible baker. I can make a few things that come out well, BUT, the vast majority turn out horrible. Bread is incredibly difficult for me. I've never gotten a decent loaf.

The sad thing is, I rocked in the laboratory. You'd think that baking would come naturally.
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post #62 of 64
7/7/09 at 8:05pm
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Originally Posted by DarkNWorn View Post
'Cause it's now socially acceptable and, indeed, even encouraged for men to cook now. You don't come accross as a pansy anymore.

Isn't it weird how you used to rarely see women as head chefs in well known restaurants, but at the same time expected the cook of the house be a woman?
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post #63 of 64
7/7/09 at 8:06pm
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I cook and enjoy it. My wife cooks and cleans up everything and she thinks she gets the better part of the deal. I hate to clean up so I'm happy too.

Lucky guy.
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post #64 of 64
7/19/09 at 5:25pm
I come from a big Italian family, and neither my sister nor my female cousins can cook at all (they are all in their early to mid 20's). They associate domesticity with my grandmother, and being old fashioned. I think it's embarrassing really, I cook a lot and it's come to the point where I am the only one of our generation in the family who bothers to learn culinary techniques from my grandma, who is a wealth of info
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