‘Woman, bring me some food!’ bellows the male population of Poland at their female spouses. ‘Serve me and my friends and everyone that visits our house because it’s below me to cook and do the dishes.’

My grandmother used to say ‘Przez żołądek do serca mężczyzny.’ ( through a man’s stomach to his heart ) and she cooked, even though she hated it and was really bad at it, too. If you think that the madness stopped with our grandmothers you don’t know Poland, do you?

Polish men say that it’s a woman’s job to cook, and they toss in a well thought through that kitchen is her ‘rightful place’. They also joke that a kitchen towel or a rolling pin, or a pan are her ‘weapons of choice’ which a frustrated wife, who works full time, takes care of children, the house and her husband brandishes from time to time. Wouldn’t you?

Polish men also say that men are the best chefs in the world and they spread that propaganda to make sure that their women know, that what they do in the kitchen is just for amateurs, and that if they only wanted to they would be very successful professional cooks…but they don’t want to so they aren’t…but if they only wanted to they would be, you know!

I believe they only propagate these ideas to make sure that women feel less confident about themselves and their skills. I also believe that for centuries they actually created these visions of themselves being superior to women, so they could believe that everything  they made us do during those centuries was not worth their attention, but if they only wanted to they would be better at it than women. If they only wanted to they would better us at giving birth. They even started saying ‘we are pregnant’…Personally, I don’t know what people are trying to prove saying that but I really wish he could have been pregnant for at least the last month of the ‘miracle of life’, it would have saved me a lot of unpleasant memories. On the other hand, if it was to be like with the cooking – I do most of the work but he than claims to have done the hardest bit and I get to listen to it for the rest of my life – no, I think I’m glad I did it all by myself.

Going back to the occupation of a chef, however, I think there is a superior power at work here who served their justice to the Polish men with a pinch of salt ( it must have been Mother Nature ) as a great number of the masculine macho men got jobs as cooks and chefs of all kinds in the British Isles. Irony?

There are thousands of women who are fabulous professional chefs but they don’t brag about it as much as men – British or Polish. I urge you talented women! Scream and shout about your talents! Come out of the shadows of the impertinent male chefs and shine!

As for these women who hear ‘Woman, bring me my food!’ from their men, I encourage you to tell them that you’d like to move to Great Britain 🙂