Gordan Ramsay bemoans the fact that only 25% of women are learning to cook before they leave home. Katharine Mieszkowski seems to think that this is somehow "burning women".

Whether or not these women go on to be housewives or CEOs, you have to consider it a step in the wrong direction. It surely would have done me--a man--some good to learn the basics before I left home: frozen pizza and TV dinners are way over-rated. I eventually taught myself to cook a decent dinner. I'm sure I'd be a better cook if I'd learned it as a child. Why it should be any different for the under-educated 75% of women is beyond me. Just because the fraction of under-educated men is larger doesn't make it OK for women to lose ground!

I have seen several recent articles that discuss the relative prison population of men and women. The rate for incarceration of women has tripled recently. Nobody is arguing that this is a good thing. But according to Mieskowski's myopic definition of equality, this should be a good thing. Perhaps the fact that more women being incarcerated demonstrates that women are demonstrating independence by breaking the glass ceiling in criminality.

A chef complaining about how people (women) feed themselves and their familes these days is like a race car driver complaining about how people prefer small, economic cars instead of what he drives.

We all have to eat. Everyday. A chef cooks for work, for people's special occasions. Making women feel inadequate because they don't have the creativity, money or time to cook beautiful meals everyday is just plain mean. The fact that over the centuries, busy tired women have managed to invent national cuisines anyway is a testament to the fact that some women's creativity has overcome huge obstacles.

I have always interpreted the addage " all great chefs are men" as an example of how sexist the world is, not as how men are innately great cooks.

I just don't understand people who say they can't cook. It's not difficult. There are recipes that give you step by step instructions. Some are very simple. Start small, gain confidence and work up to more complicated recipes.

If a person chooses not to cook, for whatever reason, that's an entirely different matter. That's who frozen dinners are made for.