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From: booter@lll-crg.ARpA (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.cooks
Subject: Men, Food and Brooklyn
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Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 22:28:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 12 22:28:38 1986
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I've been having so much fun with the article Bandy/Andy "dared" me to post
to the net. I got responses from Lumberhackers, lumberjacks, women who
live/love with same and one "skinny Oriental kid who likes eating" (keep
eating!). 

Most of the men writing or being mentioned are well in excess of 6 feet tall
and 190 pounds. There is logic in that. If you are a big man, you need to 
stoke up, or as one woman put it "...how do you think he got to be six feet
two?"

I still think it is cute that Andy collects recipes. 

The reason this is novel to me (despite the fact that my dad was always the
better cook - what Saurbraten!) is that I come from Macholand, Brooklyn. We
lived in Bay Ridge which is wedged between a notorious Mafia neighborhood
and a Latino neighborhood. None of my grade school or high school buddies
would even *dream* of men in the kitchen! The Sicilian youths dreamed of 
beautiful cars and the Puerto Rican youths dreamed of beautiful women :-)
None of these fine young men were into food.It was pizza everywhere."Hey, Tony, 
waddya want fuh dinnuh?" "Eh.....pizza.' (or "Quiero pizza")

Many of these guys were married at a relatively early age and so were kept
away from the kitchen. Perhaps it is the guys who wait who also cook. :-)
Also, I suspect closet chemists like cooking (one guy I knew liked blowing
up beans in the microwave).

Some of you may have thought that I tease Andy horribly about cooking. HELL NO!
I am so busy with school (and procrastinating by posting to the net) that I
have no time to cook. I tease him horribly about other things :-)


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	"Behold the fool saith, 'Put not all thine eggs in the one
	basket' - which is a manner of saying,'Scatter your money
	and your attention;' but the wise man saith,'Put all your
	eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET.'"
				-Pudd'nhead Wilson-
				-S.L. Clemens-