**All through April I will be posting the A-Z of life of a girl of twenty-something as a part of the A-to-ZChallenge. Do join me in this journey of introspection and lesson.**
When you are in your twenties, every Tom, Dick and Harry want to know if you know to cook and how well you cook. Don’t be intimidated. It is a life skill we all need and we will learn it at our own pace. š
Somewhere in the beginning,
when I was happy and grinning.
The auntie dropped the word cooking,
this got everybody looking.
I tried to break free and run away,
told it to come some other day.
A day when I don’t consider it an ordeal,
The spices and aroma I want to feel.
The survival skill I shall learn at my own pace.
Someone tell the society there is no race!
There is so much more than cooking to achieve,
Everything has a pace, I believe.
Dear Society, your constant questions are annoying,
On your part, it is very disappointing.
Attach no gender to a brilliant skill,
Let people do things of their own free will.
A beautiful way to convey the thoughts about a stigma attached with women
Nicely put!
I love the way you have expressed almost every twenty something girl’s opinion about cooking š
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Cooking is at once a child’s play and adult joy and cooking done with care is a act of love. You have to feel it to cook it.!
Cheers!
Nice one Ramya. Think a lot of Indian girls will relate to this.
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DOnt worry Ramya, I have never enjoyed cooking but I have successfully crossed that survival phase, and now manage to cook a decent meal.
Great way to convey feelings!!
Well said Ramz and the way you can pen a poem is just incredible. I still remember the struggle I had with one I penned as a GP on your blog.
Hats off to such prose-ic creativity!! š
And yes its not a race nor is a gender to be attached to any skill – very well said!!!
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This pressure will not cease, until you stop giving a damn, or start cooking š
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So true to live life at your own pace. You expressed this sentiment in a very well-worded poem. Thank you.
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I never enjoyed cooking. I cook for survival. Or else no thanks.
Today cooking is no more the prerogative and burden meant for ‘Ladies only:’
In case one wants healthy,timely meal everyone better learn cooking. As for your grouse that aunties keep asking – kuch to log kahenge…..
Let us move along and enjoy cooking and eating
Yep, for me, cooking is a means to surviving in this ever-changing life. I do not enjoy it. Not one scrap. Build a Better Blog
I agree! When I moved out of home at 21, I didn’t know how to cook anything other than chana masala which my mum tried hard to make me learn. I was stubborn to not enter the kitchen. Nowadays, 12 years later, I can cook most things I like — I just learnt on my own because I wanted to not because what people thought my gender should learn š
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My husband loved to cook from the earliest of ages. His mother, when he was young, was annoyed by him wanting to watch her cook, and to help. That isn’t what boys did. Now, in her 80’s, she is so proud of his cooking.
Aaww! Whenever I hear the word cooking, the first thing that comes into my mind is Gordon Ramsay!
We used to have cooking classes in school. Like, it was a subject. I remember chopping French Beans and frying Sabudana Vada. And also, making Noodle Vegetable Cutlets! I guess I’ll have to survive on these foods when I’m in my twenties š
I’m one of those who doesn’t much like to cook.I learnt how to as a challenge and to prove a point, but it’s not something I would ever do everyday!