Sam, I am well known as a chef at our school activities, and I am forever shocked whenever I have a mother come up to me and laugh, that they never use their stove or any other utensil in the kitchen because they never learned to enjoy cooking.. They should only know what I am thinking..
God, I hope these kids survive this curse..
That truly is sad. I love cooking. I just hate cleaning it up. Pity you live across the country. My son needs to meet a professional chef for his cooking merit badge requirement.
My mom can't cook (it just wasn't born in her - and her mom was a fussy perfectionist who never allowed her in the kitchen) but my dad is a splendid cook (only boy and youngest in a big family of girls - he can also sew on buttons, darn socks, and dynamite a bridge < g > - didn't learn that last one at home but in the Corps of Engineers). And he taught me . . . I need a cookbook, but nobody at our house ever goes hungry and our guests do seem to like the food. My husband is a chemist and says he cooks all day at work, doesn't need to when he gets home, but he's a good egg and I never wash a dish!
My girl goes off to college in two weeks, I'm sending her with a microwave cookbook (hot plates not allowed in the dorms) and a breaking heart . . . < sniff >
. . . but this means I'll have time to teach my son to cook! We'll start with grilling over charcoal, all men love that!
Her kids will make some therapist very wealthy.