Should Girls Learn How to Cook?
I am an Asian
girl, and by learning everything from my mom’s life, I know that every Asian
girl when she grows up has to know how to cook to serve her own family. To me,
that is my happiness and pleasure, but some girls complain that cooking is a job for a maid, and it takes their time. They think that after a long day at
work, ladies need some time to relax and take care of themselves by going
shopping, hanging out with friends, and by going to do their nails. Thus, studying
about how to cook is an unnecessary part of their lives. However, I do not
agree with them because I find many positive values in learning how to cook. Cooking is relaxing, it connects people and builds relationships, it helps to save money, a homemade food is healthier than restaurant food, and cooking demonstrates
that a cook is a grown up person.
First
of all, I agree that we ladies need time to do something for ourselves. We
deserve to be treated well after a long day at work because men do not know how
stressed ladies can be at work, and maybe men cannot know what ladies think
and feel. We ladies are totally different than men. Men are often simple; they
just need to wear neat clothes to go to work, finish everything on time, and
then they go home, but women are pickier and more thorough than men. We want to
have a good-looking appearance whenever we step out the door. Furthermore, we
do not just want to finish our work on time, but we also want it done
perfectly, so no one can find any faults. Thus, to relieve our stress, we need
time to go to a spa to massage our body to have perfect skin on which to wear
our lovely clothes. We need time to go to a nail shop to paint our nails, so any
one looking at us will think that we are perfect ladies. We also need time to
go shopping to buy some more new dresses or shirts to wear to work or hang out
with friends. Thinking about having time to relax and make ourselves look good
makes us ladies feel so happy and want to live longer to enjoy our lives. However,
cooking is also one method of relaxing, too.
Cooking
is a good way to reduce stress. To me, when I am cooking, that is the most
peaceful moment because I can be who I am. I turn my favorite song on as
loud as my stereo allows, take off my beautiful dress which is so uncomfortable,
and I put on baggy clothes, which are so comfortable because cooking time is a
period to be myself, and I do not care about simulating a perfect lady with a ton
of make up on my face or awkward high heels on my feet. I always have to act
like a professional at work with a super clean and neat table, and now it is
time to let things be free. Who cares about a dirty table filled with power,
sugar, salt, and eggs! I will clean it after I finish cooking everything. Cooking is a way to relieve stress from work. Today
at work, my old co-worker who I
really hate wore the exact dress I just bought yesterday, and I had to be nice
to her. When I got home, I could not keep my feelings inside anymore, and I
needed to throw them out. I chopped carrots, and I imagined the carrots were her.
Now she is under my control. By the time I have finished the dishes, every stress has gone.
Additionally, cooking is also a way to connect people and build relationships,
too. For example, I can invite my new co-worker to my house. While cooking, I can
learn more about her by asking questions about her life, and we can have fun
together. After all of this, I will have a new friend.
Additionally,
I think that knowing how to cook is so helpful for everyone. Cooks can save
some money by not going out to eat and by starting to cook at home. They can
make sure that they will stay healthy. As you know, the food customers eat in
any restaurant is never guaranteed one hundred percent to be good for them. To have
a lot of profit, restaurant owners often make their chefs re-use oil when they
make any fried dish, and the chefs use imitation powders to make food taste good.
For example, chefs put beef powder in broth to make a Pho taste because the
powder costs less than the cost of buying the bones needed to cook Pho and to pay
for the gas to cook it. Of course, that is not good for people’s health. Thus,
to me, I would like to buy ingredients and go home and cook what I like.
Furthermore, I can eat those foods for a week, and I know I am still healthy. I
also can save some money for my piggy bank to buy some more new clothes for
myself.
A
person who knows how to cook can take good care of herself and the people around
her. Almost every teenager wants to move out when she is eighteen, and
she thinks that she is old enough to live her life without her parents.
However, I wonder how she can live if she cannot cook. In the United States, a
person has so many fast foods to choose from, such as cookies, chips, cup cakes. She can eat these for a meal or whenever she is hungry, but they are not
good. For example, for breakfast, she has a cup cake. For lunch, she has a double meat
hamburger, and for dinner, she has a cookie. Those are not meals. What a person
needs to eat after a long day at work or school is food including every vitamin. Food such as fish, vegetables, rice, and milk include
many vitamins, such as vitamins A, B, and C. Eat like a human! Thus, a person who
wants to tell her parents that she is a grown girl and who desires her parents’
permission to move out needs to show them that she can cook.
She can cook a good meal for herself everyday.
Moreover, knowing how to cook is really helpful when someone around her gets
sick. Instead of running to buy soup from a restaurant which may not be open at
midnight, she can cook at home. By the time she finishes, she can feed her
patient.
Cooking
is hard work, but a person can find many positive values from cooking if she
tries,for example, cooking is one way to relax and connect with people, the
cook will stay healthy, she can save money by not going out to eat, and the
cook can take good care of herself and others. I can find much happiness and
many positive aspects when I cook, so I think you can, too. If girls decide to cook,
they just need to keep in their minds that they should not make themselves feel
forced to cook. Girls need to make cooking feel like a pleasure because
food is the best gift a person can give to others.
