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Article: Women! Get back in the kitchen
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- The Spectator
- Article date:
- June 7, 2008
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'Must go, I have to cook dinner, ' said my friend Robin, who had dropped in on his way home from work. Jumping on his bike, a fresh mallard and some curly kale in his rucksack, he pedalled off home to his young wife. It's the 'he' part of this that gets me. My new copy of Delia Smith's book hit the doormat a few days later, packed with recipes asking for cooks to do little more deft than open a can, and I am still in recovery after watching Nigella Lawson's series about processed gloop. Meanwhile, the busy HarperCollins editor Robin Harvie's lucky young wife Laurence gets dinner cooked for her by someone who has no intention of cheating. I asked him if it was normal among his friends for ...