Comments on: She can really cook, IYKWIM http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/ Manolo Loves the Brides! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:08:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sasha http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-1129 Sasha Sun, 26 Feb 2006 06:55:10 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-1129 Yes, your mother does sound so very wise indeed! Yes, your mother does sound so very wise indeed!

]]> By: Never teh Bride http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-1014 Never teh Bride Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:38:14 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-1014 Methinks your mother a truly wise woman, La BellaDonna! Methinks your mother a truly wise woman, La BellaDonna!

]]> By: La BellaDonna http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-1007 La BellaDonna Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:33:23 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-1007 My dear mother was not allowed in the kitchen when she was a girl, on the grounds that she "would bother the cook." (No, she didn't grow up fantastically rich, alas; it was the Depression, when a cook was affordable if you had a wage earner in the family making a modestly decent income.) Her first attempt at making rice apparently resulted in enough to feed most of Szechuan. She also learned the hard way that no, you cannot - or should not - iron a rubber girdle. She therefore taught each of us, three boys and two girls, how to cook as soon as we were tall enough to reach the back of the stove safely. None of us has turned out to be gourmet chefs, but boy, are we competent. I can walk into a (stereotypical) bachelor's house and make a dinner for three on oddments in his cupboards, when we're stranded there by snow (and have done so). My mother regarded it as a survival skill, and she was right. My dear mother was not allowed in the kitchen when she was a girl, on the grounds that she “would bother the cook.” (No, she didn’t grow up fantastically rich, alas; it was the Depression, when a cook was affordable if you had a wage earner in the family making a modestly decent income.) Her first attempt at making rice apparently resulted in enough to feed most of Szechuan. She also learned the hard way that no, you cannot - or should not - iron a rubber girdle.

She therefore taught each of us, three boys and two girls, how to cook as soon as we were tall enough to reach the back of the stove safely. None of us has turned out to be gourmet chefs, but boy, are we competent. I can walk into a (stereotypical) bachelor’s house and make a dinner for three on oddments in his cupboards, when we’re stranded there by snow (and have done so). My mother regarded it as a survival skill, and she was right.

]]> By: Never teh Bride http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-1003 Never teh Bride Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:50:15 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-1003 Wow, JaneC, the youngest bride was 26...I guess marrying later is "in!" I'm glad I'm so hip and with it! Wow, JaneC, the youngest bride was 26…I guess marrying later is “in!” I’m glad I’m so hip and with it!

]]> By: maria http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-1001 maria Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:43:58 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-1001 Just to say something about egg whites:it's all abouth them being at room temperature before you crack the eggs, and the eggs being fresh, of course. Just to say something about egg whites:it’s all abouth them being at room temperature before you crack the eggs, and the eggs being fresh, of course.

]]> By: JaneC http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-1000 JaneC Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:44:12 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-1000 I'm in the northwest, and I'm a college student, so those of my friends who are going to get married later haven't gotten around to it yet. I also specified that none of them are Mormon; almost all of them are Catholic, so there may still be a religious element skewing the statistics. Websites with statistics on average marriage age show brides anywhere from 24-30. The 24 estimate is not far from what I'm familiar with; most of the brides I've known were 22, and I'm will probably be 23 at my own wedding (we're not officially engaged yet, but a girl can plan). It's possible things are different in the northeast: this site http://gothamist.com/archives/licking_the_windows/index.php?page=2 has stats from the wedding announcements in the NY Times for a few weeks last year, and the average ages of brides there is over 30. I’m in the northwest, and I’m a college student, so those of my friends who are going to get married later haven’t gotten around to it yet. I also specified that none of them are Mormon; almost all of them are Catholic, so there may still be a religious element skewing the statistics. Websites with statistics on average marriage age show brides anywhere from 24-30.

The 24 estimate is not far from what I’m familiar with; most of the brides I’ve known were 22, and I’m will probably be 23 at my own wedding (we’re not officially engaged yet, but a girl can plan). It’s possible things are different in the northeast: this site http://gothamist.com/archives/licking_the_windows/index.php?page=2
has stats from the wedding announcements in the NY Times for a few weeks last year, and the average ages of brides there is over 30.

]]> By: Never teh Bride http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-989 Never teh Bride Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:23:12 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-989 Really, JaneC? Whereabouts are you located? It may be a regional difference. I'm in the northeast and everyone I know who is married has had a career and lived on their own first. But I also have a lot of friends who moved out of their parents' houses during college or immediately after - I know a lot of folks stay at home for a while first. Maybe my peeps are the anomoly? I need to make a poll :-) Really, JaneC? Whereabouts are you located? It may be a regional difference. I’m in the northeast and everyone I know who is married has had a career and lived on their own first. But I also have a lot of friends who moved out of their parents’ houses during college or immediately after - I know a lot of folks stay at home for a while first. Maybe my peeps are the anomoly? I need to make a poll :-)

]]> By: JaneC http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-987 JaneC Fri, 10 Feb 2006 05:40:56 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-987 I'm sort of wondering where all these brides are who've lived on their own and had a career before getting married. I've been to 10 weddings in the last three years, and will attend 3 more this year, and only one out of the total 13 featured a couple older than 25. (And none of them are Mormon, in case you're wondering.) Maybe this cookbook is for those brides? Though, admittedly, I owned about 5 cookbooks by the time I was 21, and will definitely not need a special bride cookbook when I get married. I’m sort of wondering where all these brides are who’ve lived on their own and had a career before getting married. I’ve been to 10 weddings in the last three years, and will attend 3 more this year, and only one out of the total 13 featured a couple older than 25. (And none of them are Mormon, in case you’re wondering.) Maybe this cookbook is for those brides?

Though, admittedly, I owned about 5 cookbooks by the time I was 21, and will definitely not need a special bride cookbook when I get married.

]]> By: LNLisa http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-985 LNLisa Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:50:54 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-985 I don't mind cooking as long as someone else does the dishes! ;) Twistie, I worked in a bookstore too, and you're probably right. I just looked at the description for the book on Amazon, and apparently it is only an another book with a different cover, so really I don't see the point of this book at all! But then of course, there are many books that have no point. I don’t mind cooking as long as someone else does the dishes! ;)

Twistie, I worked in a bookstore too, and you’re probably right. I just looked at the description for the book on Amazon, and apparently it is only an another book with a different cover, so really I don’t see the point of this book at all! But then of course, there are many books that have no point.

]]> By: Never teh Bride http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-983 Never teh Bride Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:51:40 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/02/09/she-can-really-cook-iykwim-2/#comment-983 I have no objections to permanent takeout, even though The Beard is an excellent cook. Food delivered gives me that much more time to fondle my pink violin*. *Not a euphamism I have no objections to permanent takeout, even though The Beard is an excellent cook. Food delivered gives me that much more time to fondle my pink violin*.

*Not a euphamism

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