TO COOK OR NOT TO COOK

06 Μαρ TO COOK OR NOT TO COOK

In nowadays, there is an obsessive propoganda about gender equality, and we, women, started to believe that it’s a shame to cook. Feminist movement is considering cooking to be anachronistic. The extremely sexistic phrase “get back to your kitchen” which became a memo, provoked a strong protest among women and made them try to prove daily that they are much more than just cookers.

Well developed restaurant food delivery to our doors is also trying to replace the traditional home cooking

Unfortunately, there are still many women for whom cooking is their absolute daily obligation and many more that do it under circumstances of pressure. According to the phychologist’s point of view, women who relate cooking with obligation feel strongly negative emotions during cooking, and when they do not cook for any reason they feel guilty. Maybe we should find the middle between the two extremes. Maybe we should become more flexible.

Don’t you think that I’m not using the services of food delivery from restaurants or that I deny take away from my mother’s in law house.

But I strongly believe that the kitchen is a marvelous part of our house, which makes the house feel like home. It’s like a magistral artery, giving us actual food for our body and soul. The kitchen is the place where each woman can improvise, create and be the conductor of numberless spices, small smart gadgets, woks and pans,  flowered tea cups, containers with biscuits and other endless staff. The bright smell of frying meat  mixed with the bubling sauce sounds and claffouti notes in the air create the great feeling of coziness and honest happiness. What I feel is that cooking can give you unbelievable satisfaction only when you enter the kitchen having in your mind that you Don’t Have To…. you do not owe it to yourself, to your partner, kids or friends, to nobody. Frame cooking in an attractive shape, season with plenty of love every single sandwich that you create, share food with your beloved ones.

Bon apetite!!