Cooking: Not a woman’s world
Expertise in cooking may not be a gender idea, but the willingness to do it.
“I don’t believe the kitchen is meant for the woman alone, couples should cook together, eat together and work together. The method whereby a woman gives birth and the husband prepares her favorite food on her delivery is still the best, so if a man cannot cook, how will he be able to do that? “ Solomon Ekanabasi expressed himself.
Adding that cooking is one of his hobbies and he is good in preparing Afang soup and pounded yam, a traditional food mostly eaten by the Akwa — Ibom tribe.
Meanwhile in a conversation with Yemi Adewalure and on the contrary, said “why will I be the one to cook when I have a wife, so what’s the essence of marrying her, I can only cook if I don’t have a wife, but since I am married, she will do the cooking and I will provide” He said.
Gone are the days when the kitchen was the domain of a woman, in fact it was almost an offence for a man to enter into the kitchen and prepare food for the family, because the women were described as the owner of the home.
Recently, things are taking turns because if you look at the world’s chef, majority of them are men. In an observation, the most famous and top earning chefs are men, probably they perform better professionally than at home.
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There have been all sorts of argument, that women only cook, because it’s a necessity, most of them cannot win cooking competitions with the men and that they are only better off at home.
According to a source, men are creative in cooking, most of them go for training that is why they are usually employed in these professional kitchen, eateries and such. They can carry heavier task and are usually dedicated to their work.
Moreover, while some women can boast of preparing thousands of meal on a long course, others cannot even make a delicious meal for the family.
“Civilization from the Western world has made it easy for these set of people in gaining short cuts to provide a meal, some of them buy the already made soup at shopping malls while others purchase the raw but packaged foods that doesn’t require you following any procedure to cook it, all you need to do is just heat it up with fire and the food is ready in no time. They are gradually neglecting the normal way of going to the market to get their ingredients raw and turn it into something” Esther Akinbami said.
She further added that “ I don’t respect any woman who cannot cook, they are even the ones who forced their husbands into the kitchen which isn’t supposed to be, at least a man can be in the kitchen once in a while, but not always.
According to a research, the Knorr cooking competition which comprises of both male and female competitors has been consecutively won by men except on one season whereby a woman emerged as the winner. Other editions had men as the overall winner while others made it to the grand finale, the last concluded season was a practical example.
But findings reveal that men are using their acquired skills from Catering schools or institutions of such in applying for these competitions, that is why they are gradually dominating the profession.
