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Default Who taught you to cook?

On Sat 12 Jul 2008 08:48:23p, Edwin Pawlowski told us...

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> "MG" > wrote in message
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>> My dad was a second chef, cooking mainly fish, but he was old school
>> and always said that since he was married, why should he cook at home
>> when he had a wife (sheesh!) but occasionally he'd cook Sunday
>> breakfast; French toast was a fave
>>

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> That's the way it was. I never saw my father or grandfather cook
> anything. Mom stayed home and did the housework while dad went to his
> job or ran the family business.


My dad was master of the great behemoth of a stone barbecue he had built
back in the 1950s. It was a huge thing that he burned hickory logs in. He
also made great oatmeal. :-)



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