Love Bites: Marital Skirmishes in the Kitchen – Christopher Hirst

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Prompted partly by gastronomic curiosity and partly by sheer greed, Mr H entered the kitchen with Mrs H as his guide. The result is perhaps the most honest food book ever written. It is certainly one of the funniest! While exploring culinary items both famous and obscure, from pizza to pancakes, Seville orange marmalade to blancmange, they made an important discovery – there are several important differences between men and women in the kitchen. Women in the kitchen (according to Mr H) * Women are very, very, very bossy. * Women are very difficult to get out of kitchen shops. Their favourite reading tends to be the Lakeland catalogue. * Women are obsessed with cleanliness to extent that it imperils our natural resistance to bugs and germs. Men in the kitchen (according to Mrs H) * Men …