Enough With Gender Roles; Women Can Earn And Cook. So Should Men

A woman’s job is seen as a hobby that can wait when it comes to serving her husband and in-laws.
A woman’s job is seen as a hobby that can wait when it comes to serving her husband and in-laws.
In almost all households, why is the son-in-law placed on a pedestal? And why are women continuing to abide by such traditions?
“I discovered that the kitchen was a great school for learning. One picked up multi-tasking without intending to,” writes Udayan Sengupta.
Recently with the pandemic, we have been forced to fit in this lonely world and to come to terms with it some of us have tried music, books, art. Whereas some of us have found solace in cooking.
We asked a few people how the lockdown has forced them into the kitchen and how they are dealing with having to eat what they cook.
With no takeaways and eating out at restaurants, most of us are cooking three meals at home every day. This is a dreadful time to be in charge of cooking at home.
“Our family was extremely poor ever since my childhood. I worked as a domestic help in multiple houses to earn a living since I was 17.”
Ardent cooks have long recognized the therapeutic power of kitchen time. Now cooking therapy is the treatment for a growing number of mental health clinics and therapists’ offices. It’s being used as part of the treatment for a wide range of mental and behavioural health conditions, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, ADHD and addiction. Cooking […]
Monisha Bharadwaj dons many hats. She runs a cooking school in London, is a food historian, author of several books on cooking and a TV show host. She speaks to SheThePeople.TV about how the British came to love curry, what it takes to be a great chef and about her latest book ‘The Indian Cookery Course’.