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When not manning the smoker or stove Moyo spends much of his time organizing Real Men Cook, a nationwide cooking- for- charity event that takes place on Father's Day. Real Men volunteers whip up huge batches of their favorite dishes, people buy tickets, and everyone chows down. This year, the event's 16th, Moyo expects 1,000 male cooks to feed 30,000 mouths in 10 cities. Moyo also has a new cookbook, Real Men Cook: Rites, Rituals, and Recipes for Living (Fireside Press; 192 pages). He aims to help local charities, such as Chicago's Community Mental Health...
Moyo and his 1,000 real men represent a larger trend. Over the past 40 years, as women poured into the labor force, the average amount of time that American married men spend cooking has tripled, from seven minutes per day to 22, according to John Robinson, co-author of Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time. Meanwhile the number of hours married women spend cooking has fallen from 88 minutes per day to 48. A recent survey by Mediamark Research found that the number of men ages 25 to 54 who cook for fun at least...
...many cases, men are home on the range because their wives are stuck at the office. In other households, dads prefer to retreat to the kitchen while their spouses wrangle the kids. Then there are the families in which the guy is just clearly the better or more passionate cook...
Cook’s two ships returned to England sans Cook, and Ledyard went back to his garrison. Feeling trapped in the rigid military, Ledyard deserted when his unit was stationed in Long Island for the Revolution. “Bound by the conventional and the ordinary, he would revolt,” Zug writes. Having quickly spent his navy pay, the poor Ledyard wrote a popular memoir of his voyage with Cook in an effort to drum up support among potential donors for a fur-trading expedition. Ledyard stirred up an interested group, but corruption abounded and Ledyard...
Many Americans have long suspected that the only way for Bush to dupe us into invading Iraq was to cook the intelligence. But this never rose above the level of opinion—until just a few short weeks ago. On May 1, The London Times published the complete minutes of a meeting Tony Blair held with his cabinet in July of 2002. This extraordinarily damning glimpse into the pro-war clan’s decision-making process created quite a stir in England, where many voters were upset by what the document revealed about their government?...