Today I read the article “He Cooks. She Stews. It’s Love” in the New York Times (online edition) and it had me thinking. The premise of the article is that often times a couple will have an Alpha cook and a Beta cook.
We all know what alpha means, its a play off of the concept of the primary or alpha animal in a pack. For example, the alpha female wolf does most of the hunting while the lower cast females care for her offspring and never have any of their own.
Its a simple equation: Alpha = enforced dominance.
The author of this New York Times article, Katherine Wheelock, seems to have bought into this concept and interviews several couples as examples in support of this idea.
Her couples, high speed New Yorkers, married and divorced/separated, are heavily weighted with dysfunction in the kitchen.
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