Who has time for cooking? Ah, no darling, if you want ¨milanezas¨, tell your mother to prepare them for you!
Eurofem is proposing that you start thinking outside the mold… (Previously buttered and floured according to the exquisite recipe… If you have never made an "exquisite cake" in your whole life, then it´s time to learn how to, you marmot!)
I believe, the art is unrolled between the stove and the aroma released from the ingredients, to the richness of a majestic dish (even if it is pasta with butter…the most common dish in history) and the face of someone who shares this moment with you in tasting the first bite. I have to confess that I learned how to cook out of necessity…
My mother was one of those women who were not gifted to have patience in the kitchen. I have eaten for 6 times the mortal doses of viennisimas (Vienna sausages) that a six year old child can tolerate without entering in the waiting list for a new kidney. I grew up convincing myself that ñoquis are to be consumed in the form of concrete, bathed with sauces of strange taste. Occasionally, I was fed with white rise that tasted like hospital food…
Not complaining much, the opportunity was given to me early enough to learn how to survive in this world without the need of marrying to the daughter of the only neighborhood rotisserie´s owner. (Do you remember when deliveries did not exist and eating in rotisseries was a matter of life and death? And the spin chicken gave rounds and rounds above the fire?) It is not that Don Osbaldo was not to be a good father-in-law, it´s just that people who spend too much time preparing food start to smell like it. On the other hand, that girl´s hair was bathed in frying oil and that helped her avoiding the frizz, yet it was catchy for flies, and this was not summing up points.
Very few times we actually put ourselves in the kitchen to prepare a dish for someone. Maybe when the first dates have passed, we want to rattle in the house and we invite that special person in order to taste something: some wine, a bit of music and the opportunity to test the guaranty of the bed springs! In other words we forget this pleasure of sitting in the table, alone or with company, simply forming part of what ends up being part of each one of us. The table is the opportunity for an open conversation, of precious minutes of a day that keeps reaching to an end. Between the yogurt for lunch and the fast made salad for dinner, we have forgotten one of the most necessary moments for the body and the mind. The diets, the deprivations, and the arrogances of the stomach (a big Toblerone with ice cream while watching TV sounds ok?) We are surprised when the night comes, we open the fridge and look inside and it is almost empty! Two soup cubes and half lemon; three milk products with activia; and a taper of potato pie that has its own colony of fungus on top.
You would say, “Uf, I can´t be bother to go to the supermarket. Then come with all the goodies and put myself in the kitchen... I will finish up at eleven o´clock and end up in bed.” Very much right! But remember the phrase of William Gilbert: “What matters is not really what there is on the table, but what´s on the chairs.” Take advantage to invite people home, call a friend, colleagues, occasionally a boyfriend or girlfriend in the week and give/make love in the kitchen. Prepare something for someone is first of all an act of surrender, offering, opening and knowledge. An Arabic proverb says, “He who eats alone, chocks alone.”
Buenos Aires, and all big cities are getting even bigger and we get even smaller. Keeping in touch with others (even more nuts than we are) contributes in decreasing the use of sleeping pills, the panic attacks and all the milonga that goes on in the heads of some snobs who thing that living well is having the pulse of a woodpecker and the chiefs happy. EUROFEM suggests that you lower the speed, eat more tasty food, take advantage of the small pleasures and live consciously. You will need your body in good shape for your first divorce, do not waste it away with a cold ham and cheese sandwich.
The tip of the City Girls: Just do the same as the girls in the photo, Etelvira and Leonor. After a crazy day in the city, just put on the apron and get the casseroles on the fire to demonstrate to the world that you can be Narda Lepez (known Argentinean Cook, and TV commentator) and still feel independent and successful professionals!
Eurofem is proposing that you start thinking outside the mold… (Previously buttered and floured according to the exquisite recipe… If you have never made an "exquisite cake" in your whole life, then it´s time to learn how to, you marmot!)
I believe, the art is unrolled between the stove and the aroma released from the ingredients, to the richness of a majestic dish (even if it is pasta with butter…the most common dish in history) and the face of someone who shares this moment with you in tasting the first bite. I have to confess that I learned how to cook out of necessity…
My mother was one of those women who were not gifted to have patience in the kitchen. I have eaten for 6 times the mortal doses of viennisimas (Vienna sausages) that a six year old child can tolerate without entering in the waiting list for a new kidney. I grew up convincing myself that ñoquis are to be consumed in the form of concrete, bathed with sauces of strange taste. Occasionally, I was fed with white rise that tasted like hospital food…
Not complaining much, the opportunity was given to me early enough to learn how to survive in this world without the need of marrying to the daughter of the only neighborhood rotisserie´s owner. (Do you remember when deliveries did not exist and eating in rotisseries was a matter of life and death? And the spin chicken gave rounds and rounds above the fire?) It is not that Don Osbaldo was not to be a good father-in-law, it´s just that people who spend too much time preparing food start to smell like it. On the other hand, that girl´s hair was bathed in frying oil and that helped her avoiding the frizz, yet it was catchy for flies, and this was not summing up points.
Very few times we actually put ourselves in the kitchen to prepare a dish for someone. Maybe when the first dates have passed, we want to rattle in the house and we invite that special person in order to taste something: some wine, a bit of music and the opportunity to test the guaranty of the bed springs! In other words we forget this pleasure of sitting in the table, alone or with company, simply forming part of what ends up being part of each one of us. The table is the opportunity for an open conversation, of precious minutes of a day that keeps reaching to an end. Between the yogurt for lunch and the fast made salad for dinner, we have forgotten one of the most necessary moments for the body and the mind. The diets, the deprivations, and the arrogances of the stomach (a big Toblerone with ice cream while watching TV sounds ok?) We are surprised when the night comes, we open the fridge and look inside and it is almost empty! Two soup cubes and half lemon; three milk products with activia; and a taper of potato pie that has its own colony of fungus on top.
You would say, “Uf, I can´t be bother to go to the supermarket. Then come with all the goodies and put myself in the kitchen... I will finish up at eleven o´clock and end up in bed.” Very much right! But remember the phrase of William Gilbert: “What matters is not really what there is on the table, but what´s on the chairs.” Take advantage to invite people home, call a friend, colleagues, occasionally a boyfriend or girlfriend in the week and give/make love in the kitchen. Prepare something for someone is first of all an act of surrender, offering, opening and knowledge. An Arabic proverb says, “He who eats alone, chocks alone.”
Buenos Aires, and all big cities are getting even bigger and we get even smaller. Keeping in touch with others (even more nuts than we are) contributes in decreasing the use of sleeping pills, the panic attacks and all the milonga that goes on in the heads of some snobs who thing that living well is having the pulse of a woodpecker and the chiefs happy. EUROFEM suggests that you lower the speed, eat more tasty food, take advantage of the small pleasures and live consciously. You will need your body in good shape for your first divorce, do not waste it away with a cold ham and cheese sandwich.
The tip of the City Girls: Just do the same as the girls in the photo, Etelvira and Leonor. After a crazy day in the city, just put on the apron and get the casseroles on the fire to demonstrate to the world that you can be Narda Lepez (known Argentinean Cook, and TV commentator) and still feel independent and successful professionals!
