Cooking in it’s simplicity and entirety is a basic life skill required of everyone and anyone to survive.

Food is fuel and in order to procure it, everyone, without discrimination of what’s between their pants, is required to learn it. However, that is the utopia of a gender equal world. In a country such as ours, cooking becomes a hereditary role of the womenfolk of the family. In the early ages, when humans took to fire to eat their food, it was the role of the men to procure it and for the women to cook it while also taking up child bearing duties. In today’s world of diversified duties, that system has yet to change, where both men and women work day and night to procure food, yet the women come home to cook it. And while cooking has evolved into a much professional and sought after art, it remains as an inherent duty of the female gender. The change is slow yet steady, where more and more women are indulging in divided home duties, including cooking. Similarly, more and more people are taking up cooking as learned art, despite its gender bias and connotations.

Thus, one must learn cooking as a basic survival skill without a gender bias, and develop passionate pursuits of honing it as both a skill and art.