Cooking is a very interesting and essential activity of the everyday life for each one of us. Cooking makes the raw ingredients ready to eat and use and food is one of the most important necessities of human beings thus cooking is itself a universal process and devoid of gender bias, fundamentally. But in the Indian scenario we have made it a purely gender based activity that has to be pursued only by the women. Men/boys are usually kept away of this activity while the girls are intentionally being encouraged to become great cooks in their lives. No matter what but a girl should be a good cook who can not only cook the basic food but should also be able to prepare various delicacies for the family and her children in the future. But should cooking really be a gender biased process that is only meant for the females and not for the men? Why only females are motivated and taught to cook usually in their homes and why not males? Fundamentally, cooking is such an essential process that doesn't look for the gender of the person when it actually comes to feed the empty stomach! A male might also be expected to cook not for others but at least for himself, then whom would he look to to cook the food for him? Till when he would be relying on the food brought from outside? That is the moment a male regrets and apparently blames the mother to make him a couch potato who only learnt to relish the delicacies but never tried his own talents in cooking. But still cooking is something which I truly feel should not be a gender based activity, it is as useful for a man as it is for a female. it has nothing to do with the gender rather if a boy knows to cook this always is counted as one of his specialties.
