Picky Grouchy Non-Cook FAQs and not so FAQs
IS BEING A NON-COOK HEREDITARY?
IS BEING A NON-COOK HEREDITARY?
Once my mom said to me, "I can't believe that you came from my womb and you don't like to cook." So it looks like anecdotal evidence suggests, in my case, that being a non-cook is not hereditary in that mother- passing-it-to-daughter way. I did not get it from her. But what if my mother were a non-cook? Maybe the non-cook gene would have been dominant. Maybe then I would have gotten it from her. But maybe this depends on what the father has going on: cook or non-cook, and wherefore?
I believe the thing is that there's more than one way to wind up a non-cook. More study is required before people go flying off the handle being sure of things. However, it does seem safe to make a weaker claim, which is this: Being a non-cook can feel like part of someone's heritage or family tradition. I consider it to be part of mine on account of my two grandmothers. One non-cook and one bad cook! You can read more about them, and my relationship to not cooking through them, here. Maybe being a non-cook is hereditary, but it skips a generation? The answer to this question and many more on the topic of cook/non-cook legacy is definitely inconclusive all around. |