Cooking Lesson (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Rosario Castellanos
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1960's
- Setting: Mexico
- Principal Characters: The narrator
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Tradition, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Self, Marriage, Domestic work or workers, Cookery or cooks, Mexico or Mexicans, Homemakers, Decision making, Meat
- Locales: Mexico
The Story
A recently married Mexican woman explains that because she does not know how to cook, she must resort to a cookbook for guidance. Her frustration grows as she skims through recipes too difficult for novices to follow. Feeling dishonest in wearing an apron that suggests an expertise that is generally assumed to be second nature to women, the narrator finally decides to defrost and prepare a roast. While thus occupied, her mind wanders back and forth between her culinary task and the changes that have occurred in her life since she met her husband. Remarks that she...
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