First off -- yay cooking! Now you just have to be able to do things like "cleaning" and the Apocalypse will be ushered in on the world
I'm still not entirely sure why cooking is a woman's thing -- a bunch of the famous cooks I've heard of have been guys. I've never seen a female Iron Chef in any case. Yay 50's I guess.
As for my own cooking abilities, they are few and far between, mostly due to my laziness. I can usually follow directions, and I can make the basic meals my dad makes (pasta, grilling steak, a cassarol that my family simply calls "cassarol" which is freakin' awesome, etc.). I've also helped my college friends make dinner in the past (usually just cutting up stuff, not actual cooking). I tend to be too slow and meticulous to cook well... and lazy. Mostly the lazy.
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