Are you the alpha cook?
Frank is definitely the alpha cook in our household according to this New York Times article, He Cooks. She Stews. It’s Love. I really related to one of the beta-cooks who said, "[He says] ‘Great, yes, come cook with me.’ And then he gives me the take-the-chicken-out- -of-the-package-and-rinse-it job." So I found the same solution that one of the other betas found, "Ms. LaVallee, the adviser to the president of Georgetown University, now chooses to sit on the sideline with a glass of wine." I usually end up sitting on the kitchen floor talking to Frank defending my glass of wine from the dogs. All in all though, I think I have the best of all worlds:
life with an alpha cook can mean sitting back and watching while
someone else prepares restaurant-quality wild mushroom risotto on a
quiet Tuesday night.Photo by scribeoflight.
