Cooking Men
All men should cook.
Cooking is good for men.
It's better than watching TV.
Cooking is an adventure and it
takes you to places you might
never have considered going.
Cooking people are friendly people like
Golfing and boating and bowling sporting people
are friendly people,
and they want to share their recipes with you,
if you ask them politely.
I don't have a single cookbook but
I’m constantly cooking new things.
The best recipes are very simple to make.
It’s more art than science.
I don't understand people who say that they can't cook.
That's like saying,
"I can't walk or talk or read or write."
The things I cook always come out
better than the food that I get even at the most expensive
restaurants.
Cooking takes up a lot of time
to do it right,
and it’s a fantastic use of time.
I understand mothers of old much better now.
They were not slaves to the kitchen;
they had love affairs with the kitchen.
How could a woman or man ever fall in love with
a boil-in–a-bag or a grilled cheese sandwich or a fish stick?
Now, making sauce or preparing a fresh fish fillet or making a
stew
with hand-squeezed, knife-chopped vegetables
and meat bought from the butcher…
now, this is a love affair with impermanence.
Michael Domino
Port Jefferson, NY
January 15, 2008
Cooking is good for men.
It's better than watching TV.
Cooking is an adventure and it
takes you to places you might
never have considered going.
Cooking people are friendly people like
Golfing and boating and bowling sporting people
are friendly people,
and they want to share their recipes with you,
if you ask them politely.
I don't have a single cookbook but
I’m constantly cooking new things.
The best recipes are very simple to make.
It’s more art than science.
I don't understand people who say that they can't cook.
That's like saying,
"I can't walk or talk or read or write."
The things I cook always come out
better than the food that I get even at the most expensive
restaurants.
Cooking takes up a lot of time
to do it right,
and it’s a fantastic use of time.
I understand mothers of old much better now.
They were not slaves to the kitchen;
they had love affairs with the kitchen.
How could a woman or man ever fall in love with
a boil-in–a-bag or a grilled cheese sandwich or a fish stick?
Now, making sauce or preparing a fresh fish fillet or making a
stew
with hand-squeezed, knife-chopped vegetables
and meat bought from the butcher…
now, this is a love affair with impermanence.
Michael Domino
Port Jefferson, NY
January 15, 2008
© 2007 by Michael Domino
