THE DOMESTIC MALE.(learning to cook)(Brief Article)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 19-AUG-02

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I am a late-onset cook. In my childhood, the usual genteel protectionism surrounded activities in the voting booth, the marital bed, and the pew. But I failed to notice a fourth secret place--secret, at least, from boys--in the English middle-class home: the kitchen. Meals and my mother emerged from it, meals that...

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