But she does almost all the cooking because she says it is less trouble to cook, serve and clean up on her own than it is to just assist and clean up after me.
When the kids were growing up, we not only ran a full-blown cooking operation dang near 24/7 for them; we fed half the football team, half the band, and nearly all the cheerleaders. Between the two of us, we dispensed tons of grub and a fair amount of avuncular advice at our kitchen table. I used to kid the guys on the sports teams that the purpose of a boy was to feed one end and beat the other, so they'd damn well better behave themselves if they stuck their feet under my table. I suspect they only half believed it, but the had enough respect for me to at least lie about it when they did misbehave. Don't see how you can raise young'uns right without doin' some heavy-duty feeding, myself.
Bottom line: Seems to me that human nature dictates the kitchen used to be and still ought to be the center of the household. Those women who now regard cooking as demeaning would have been shunned as sorry triflin' lazy hussies that wouldn't feed their households just a few years back. And the "modern career women that look down on traditional housewives for cooking their own food are more than likely just jealous because they don't know how.
