Without exactly answering your question (it’s a great question ), I think food and food preparation lends itself to all kinds of wonderful analogies and helpful explanations.

I mean, there is the option of carefully selecting a recipe or just opening the fridge and seeing what you can make with what you’ve got. There is following a step-by-step guide and throwing care to the wind and a bunch of ingredients into a pan. There is cooking for one . . . and cooking for more. There is the question a good friend of mine asked once (about cooking, of course) – would you ever make something for guests you’ve never tried out first on your own?

I suspect the gendered part of the book will bug me, but it does sound like it might be my kind of humor!
Thanks for the review.