The truth is – I don’t really love cooking.

I am not good at it, partly because of lack of practice, beyond the simple food I could make for myself. I tried taking courses, I tried pushing myself to do it, with mixed results – I’m a pretty good sous-chef, taking direction and doing all prep work – but I would much rather spend any time that I have free, outside. Or sleeping. And that’s the truth. Given choice of doing any house work, including coop shifts for two people, all cleaning, all of laundry, even ironing that no one does anymore – anything else – cooking would always be my very last choice. Spending 2 hours making something that will be consumed in 20 minutes, while still inferior to $15 takeout, just doesn’t make sense to me. Spending 2 hours making food for the week like my parents/grandparents did is claimed to be not varied/healthy enough, and not desired either.

And I don’t know how to change it, though changing it apparently has now become vitally important.