Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there!
This cartoon was published in The New Yorker in 1999, and is a personal favorite. My husband, father of our two girls, is an expert pizza eater and connoisseur. It is definitely a skill, and I have learned from him as well. I have not asked our daughters if their pizza consuming skills came from observing their father, but I am sure they would say yes.
My father was a wonderful father. Among the many things he taught me (birdwatching, patience, humor, love for adventure), he taught me how to make spaghetti carbonara. I happen to be cooking exactly that tonight at a family dinner, everyone always asks for it.
Food traditions are great, aren’t they?
See you tomorrow!
Does seem like the definitive example of mansplaing in its most benevolent form.
Spaghetti carbonara, something I picked up from one of Marcella Hazan's cookbooks, was a mainstay of our meals for a good long time when the kids were young!