Do women still know how to cook?

I feel the skill is skipping a generation, and the fate of nourishment of the American middle class rests on the shoulders of the prepared foods section at Whole Foods.

What happened?

Some of the best cooks I know are women. Actually, I'd say of the top 5 cooks I know, numbers 2-5 are all women.

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

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Some of the best cooks I know are women. Actually, I'd say of the top 5 cooks I know, numbers 2-5 are all women.
Thanks for putting me in there, little buddy. Anyhoo, mm, stop being a ******* idiot. You are not that good yet, and this silly attitude is what will keep you from getting there. Of course there are women who are great cooks, some are terrible, whatever. Get over this stupidity of yours.

Originally Posted by iammatt

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Thanks for putting me in there, little buddy.

You know you are #1. (0)

glad to see I was not the only one who mentally DTed this from the get-go.

Originally Posted by Manton

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glad to see I was not the only one who mentally DTed this from the get-go.

The M&M avatar certainly is a red flag.

great thread - would read again

Originally Posted by iammatt

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Anyhoo, mm, stop being a ******* idiot. You are not that good yet, and this silly attitude is what will keep you from getting there. Of course there are women who are great cooks, some are terrible, whatever. Get over this stupidity of yours.

+1

mgm, how old are you anyways? Given the responses, a little too young to be making overgeneralizations?

Originally Posted by mgm9128

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I feel the skill is skipping a generation, and the fate of nourishment of the American middle class rests on the shoulders of the prepared foods section at Whole Foods. What happened?
Don't you live at home with your parents?

I'm not talking about the ones that go into the industry. Maybe it's just me, but I observe the tradition fading.

Originally Posted by CouttsClient

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Don't you live at home with your parents?

I thought he lived at the Carlyle.

My girlfriend can cook very well.

My girlfriend is a much better natural cook than I am. Cooking is a hobby for me, not something that I was taught or that comes naturally at all, so I cook more, and I try to learn new techniques and get better at them and obsess over things she would never concern herself with. Often I'm trying to impress her. She is comfortable with her skill level and the dishes she knows, and they are often great. If she experiments it is in a pretty limited way of changing little things she always does, or by applying a technique she knows to something new.

Originally Posted by CouttsClient

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Don't you live at home with your parents?
Currently, yes, I live at home with mother; father has taken to a mistress. Neither can cook properly.

Originally Posted by mgm9128

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Currently, yes, I live at home with mother; father has taken to a mistress. Neither can cook properly.

plz elaborate if you feel up to it