Should Girls Learn How to Cook?

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.