By Stuart McDonald
I love to eat. Ask anyone who knows anything about me and they will emphatically confirm that. So it should come as no surprise that I, along with most men in the world, love a woman who can cook. There is just something so attractive and wonderful about a women who can create all the things that your stomach craves (and look good doing it).
Having expressed my love for women who cook, let me say I have nothing against those women who can’t cook. They’re alright with me. I highly doubt that, given two identical women, the only difference being their culinary abilities, that any man would choose the one who can’t cook. If you would choose the non-cooker, I must ask, “What is wrong with you? Do you not like to eat?”
(By the way, any woman tells you that she “doesn’t” cook, can’t cook. I’ve heard many a woman say, “Well, I could cook if I wanted to.” Sorry, I’m not buying that. Who doesn’t want to cook? If you could cook, you would, but since you “don’t” cook, I’m left to believe that you can’t cook.)
Why do men love women who can cook? Why do they prefer them over women who can’t? Is it because we like to eat? Yes. Is it because the cliché saying that, “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach,” is true? Definitely. Is it because a woman who can cook reminds them of their mom? Sure. But at the core of all those truths lies something simpler — men love women who can cook because it means that their family will be taken care of.
