A Sheltered, Liberal-Arts-Prep-School Life

"The young man who learns how to cook well will have
mastered a valuable life skill."

I led a sheltered, liberal-arts-prep-school life when young. It wasn't until I got to college that I realized, hey! I have to wash my own damn clothes! Fortunately, in those pre-Internet days, I was able to track down how-to... on the back of a box of Tide.

But learning to feed myself waited until I departed college for a year's work on my own. l bought a small unit with a stove-top and a toaster-griddle, which I still have somewhere around here, I think, forty-four years later. I was a master of making soup and toast, and eventually got the hang of rice and a few veggies. Cooking meat, though, I left to the local fast-food restaurants.

I might still be a starved, iggerent fool in the kitchen if Milady the Master Chef hadn't come to save me.

By gosh, all of our kids knew how to cook before they left home. And wash their clothes.

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