So what's cooking?

Ask me that question, “Can men cook?” and I would answer, “Yes, we can!” After all the best chefs have always been men, haven’t they? Most of the chefs in multi cuisine restaurants and hotels are after all purely male.Or is it just a tradition we follow, a convention that has lodged into our heads, like a baby monkey to its mom? Because everyone knows how superior the food is when Moms cook! They are few other things to die for. As Barbara Costikyan, U.S. editor and writer, aptly puts it in these words,"In the childhood memories of every good cook, there's a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot and a mom."

And where would we be without our cooking? The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of an ancient civilization right underneath our feet!

Someday, I am going to get married, hopefully to a wife who has always been a woman, right from the beginning. And hopefully she would know how to cook. But there is a little conundrum attached to it. “There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't and that's a wife who can't cook and will.” As rightly said by Robert Frost! I wonder why his Second name could be “Frost”? Did his forefathers put everything in the freezer and then later defrosted it. They were probably days, when they boiled water, put it in the freezer and then defrosted it. But, it doesn’t really add up, the name then would have read “Robert Defrost”, a more fitting one!

But cooking is easy, if you follow these easy guidelines….
1. Never count your eggs, before you fry them! You could always manage to break a few on the kitchen floor!

2. The early bird gets the worm; you better get her first, because you will have no worm!

3. If you or your wife fall into the second category Robert Frost was talking about, you better get ready to think about this quote by Rodney Dangerfield “Why, her cooking is so bad that the flies pitched in to fix the screen door. I leave dental floss in the kitchen and watch the roaches hang themselves."

I have a friend Mr. M, who cooks beautifully and like most connoisseurs his taste is very exquisite and is only limited in margin to very few things he loves. He is very choosy, I am not. He cooks quite a few stomach pleasers that I love, but he wouldn’t eat it himself, because he doesn’t like to debase himself to the common man’s taste. Whatever dude, you got the magic , I got the eat!

Ponder over this, before you leave ““If a pot is cooking, the frienship will stay warm”