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{{trope}}
[[File:lucia cooking.jpg|link=Venus Versus Virus|frame|[[Just for Pun|Eye on the prize]]!]]
{{quote|'''[[Batman|Robin]]''': ''Isn't it nice that Raven made us breakfast?''
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* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', Akane Tendo's utter inability to cook symbolizes her tomboy inner nature, despite her preference for feminine garb. The fact that she ''desperately'' wants to learn to cook is a way of showing that she ''wants'' to be more feminine, like her idolized older sister [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Kasumi]]. Ironically, [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] Ukyo's superlative cooking ability (she's a professional chef) is one indication that her inner nature is actually ''more'' feminine than dress-loving Akane.
** It's also hinted that Nabiki Tendo can't cook, and can't be bothered to try, preferring extremely expensive takeout instead. Since she is described as lacking a maiden's heart, the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of the first version of this trope seem to be out in the open.
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* Aoba in ''[[Cross Game]]'' is the Tomboy category, while her feminine sister Wakaba can cook quite well
* Inverted in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate, who are independent, [[Person of Mass Destruction|highly destructive]] [[Action Girl]]s [[Good-Looking Privates|with glowing military careers]], are all revealed [[All There in the Manual|in supplementary material]] to be good cooks in their own right. The [[Lethal Chef]] of the series? Why, it's the [[Team Mom]] [[White Magician Girl]], Shamal, of course!
** Justified since Nanoha's parents own a bakery and she's been helping around household chores from season 1, while Hayate used to be a [[Social Services Does Not Exist|crippled girl living on her own]], and the first episodes of A's shows her cooking, ''while in
** Shamal often helps Hayate with the cooking, and in the first ''A's'' Sound Stage, Hayate notes that she's getting better at it.
* [[Cordon Bleugh Chef|Orihime Inoue]] from ''[[Bleach]]'' has both tomboyish and girlish traits and can cook... supposedly. Being a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] ''and'' an [[Extreme Omnivore]], her meals consist of so many strange combinations, nobody is really willing to ''try'' her food to actually find if its good or not.
** According to Tessai and Matsumoto, she's a good cook. According to Hitsugaya, Matsumoto's just as bad for basically the same reason.
** On the other hand, after the last [[Time Skip]] Orihime has a part-time job in a bakery and so far hasn't been kicked out of it.
* In ''[[
* Possibly parodied a bit in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', where the girly girl Nia becomes a sort-of [[Always Someone Better]] tor the local [[Cool Big Sis]] Yoko since she's good at almost everything... until the [[Beach Episode]] shows that Nia is a ''horrid'' cook.
** Although her [[Love Interest]] Simon genuinely likes her cooking, even if no one else does.
*** In one of the spin off manga, it's shown Kamina would have loved her food too. So who knows, maybe its food fit for only the manliest of men/women.
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', tomboy Makoto (a.k.a. Sailor Jupiter) is the easily the best cook of the group. A
* Rosetta Passel from ''[[Kaleido Star]]'' is shown as an absolute disaster at the kitchen and housekeeping, since she's practically lived on tour her whole life and has rarely had the chance to experience what a true home life is. She gets a bit better with Sora's help. On the other hand, the initially very childish and immature May Wong is an excellent chef.
* Subverted with Tokine from ''[[Kekkaishi]]''. Despite her being publicly known as a [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] and having a mother who knows how to cook well, her attempts at cooking have all ended in failure.
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* [[Fiery Redhead]] Shana in ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'' can't cook, nor can [[Ninja Maid]] Wilhelmina.
* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' subverted this as well - Anthy Himemiya, despite being extremely feminine, is a [[Lethal Chef]] whose cooking is so terrible it actually explodes. Then causes people to switch bodies.
** It's pretty obvious she did that one on purpose to mess with people - under that demure exterior is enough frustration and passive-aggressive malice to power a small town, due
*** Actually, shaved ice with fruit and sweet toppings (
* In ''[[Paradise Kiss]]'', Isabella is constantly feeding everyone her exquisite traditional Japanese dishes. Coupled with her extremely feminine, motherly and caring demeanor, she's the closest the series gets to a [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]... apart from some [[Transsexualism|embarrassing biological details]].
** [[Truth in Television]] to some extent; if you're trying to prove you're really a woman in spite of your anatomy, learning to be good at doing traditionally feminine things can help. Cooking qualifies.
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* [[An Ice Person|Yukime]] from ''[[Hell Teacher Nube]]'' dreams of cooking delicious meals to her love interest, Nube, and when he can't enjoy them (since [[Alien Lunch|they're frozen solid]], her being a [[Youkai|Yuki-onna]] and all) she's upset at her own lack of skill more than his own refusal.
** Likewise [[Tomboy|Kyoko]], a fifth-grader who is very much assured of herself and often has to bail out her friends or teacher from great danger, but desperately wants to be able to cook well. At least, cook well enough for [[Idiot Hero|Hiroshi]] to enjoy. When she was ([[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|somehow...]]) finally able to, she was happy to the point of tears.
* Aversion: In ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', when Chiyo-chan goes out shopping and reveals that not only does she cook for her family, but she cooks [[Supreme Chef|very well]], it's to reinforce the fact that she's pretty much perfect, instead of her femininity (even if Nyamo asks her to marry her just for this.)
** You can't really say anything about Chiyo's femininity since she's only like 10 and even then she is still more feminine than the entire cast. She just happens to be [[The Ace|good at everything]] except physical activities due to her age and size.
* In ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', the [[Hot-Blooded]] Rosette can't cook. In a flashback, Chrono is shown ''foaming at the mouth'' when he first tries one of Rosette's cookies. Later, she's shown to have improved enough that her food is edible, but it still ''looks'' disgusting. In comparison, [[Meido|Fiore]]'s cooking is to die for, and in the anime Azmaria and Chrono (of all people!) are both shown to be good cooks, as well.
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== Comic Books ==
* Averted in an issue of ''[[Justice League of America|JLA]] Classified'' written by Gail Simone, where [[Wonder Woman]] presents the other members of the JLA with a traditional Themyscrian pastry. Flash and Green Lantern are more than a little panicked at the thought that Wonder Woman ''bakes''... and shocked by the tasty results.
** Which leads to a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when Batman, after a grim monologue, turns and says "Diana, Alfred will need that '''recipe'''."
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== Fairy Tales ==
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130529100522/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/russian/folktalesfromrussian/tsarevnafrog.html The Frog Princess]'', cooking a loaf of bread is one of the brides' tests.▼
▲* In ''[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/russian/folktalesfromrussian/tsarevnafrog.html The Frog Princess]'', cooking a loaf of bread is one of the brides' tests.
** In ''[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0402.html#aung The Frog Maiden]'', the frog makes rice and meat.
** In ''[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0402.html#tortoise The Prince and the Tortoise]'', the tortoise cooks a meal for the king.
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== Film ==
* ''Woman of the Year'' spends much of the movie showing how Katharine Hepburn's female reporter is the intellectual equal (or even superior) of Spencer Tracy's male reporter. The last scene in the movie is of Hepburn trying to make waffles but failing spectacularly, indicating that by being so successful in the "man's world" (the movie was released in 1942), she's basically rendered helpless in the "woman's world."
* Film ''Always''. Air-traffic controller Dorinda Durston wants to have a man over for dinner. She has to buy a pre-cooked meal and pretends that she prepared it herself.
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== Literature ==
* Cathy Ryan, a minor character from the [[Tom Clancy]] novels, is a good example. A full-time doctor, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, and an award-winning researcher, she still nonetheless takes great pride in her gourmet chef abilities (her potato salad is apparently to die for). It has been suggested within the books themselves that the reason she is so good at it is because cooking, being the application of proper ingredients, time, and preparation, appeals to her meticulous nature.
* Though she's not portrayed as particularly gifted, Catti-brie Battlehammer of the ''[[Drizzt]]'' novels, for much of her life a tomboyish [[Action Girl]], can at least make enjoyable road stew. Though it's implied that, like many other of her useful skills beyond "sharp wit", Drizzt, a ranger used to surviving in the wild, taught her how.
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* In the [[Star Wars]] [[Expanded Universe]], [[Action Girl|Mara Jade]] tries to give Luke a taste of home by cooking a Tatooine dish. She, of course, screws it up. Luke, perhaps for the sake of her feelings (or just to escape [[Berserk Button|her rage]]), tells her that it smells just like he remembers; and that he really wanted to leave Tatooine because of the food.
** This one's become a bit of a [[Running Gag]] in [[Fan Fiction|fanfic]], particularly among Luke/Mara shippers.
* Parodied in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
* [[
* Molly Carpenter from [[The Dresden Files]] is committed to getting Harry Dresden healthier, by cooking healthy meals for him. Unfortunately, though she can make a mean cup of coffee, a chef she [[Lethal Chef|ain't.]]
{{quote|'''Harry''': Once she burned my egg. My boiled egg. I have no idea how.}}
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* An [[Invoked Trope]] in ''[[Someone Else's War|Someone Elses War]]'', where the very sexist [[Church Militant|Lord's Resistance Army]] leaves cooking up to the girls and lets the [[Child Soldiers|boys]] do everything else.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* [[Gilmore Girls|Lorelai Gilmore]] and her daughter Rory subsist on junk food, diner food and takeout. Rory is shown cooking twice in the whole series and both times a larger point about how either she is becoming adrift in a sea of privilege or showing how unfitting a life of domesticity would be for her. Lorelai ended the series with Luke, a diner owner.
** Although Lorelai is an incompetent cook, she is an excellent seamstress and can whip up a fancy dress in under a week.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* [[Traveller]] : In the Sword Worlds the "Hearthfire" is a sacred Archetype and a symbol of security and domesticity. A proud male warrior or worker "guards" the Hearthfire, but his wife ''Tends'' it. In a way they hold this to mean she is a quasi-priestess merely by being a woman.
== Theatre ==
* In ''[[Of Thee I Sing]]'', Wintergreen isn't too keen on marrying Diana Devereaux or any of the other [[Beauty Contest]] girls, since he doubts their ability to cook: "Why, the average girl today can't cook--she can't even broil an egg." Mary insists that ''she'' can cook, and introduces him to her corn muffins, which go [[Through His Stomach]] straight to his heart.
* In ''[[On the Town]]'', Hildy claims she can cook, but the bill of fare she presents to Chip consists of [[Double Entendre]]s served up in a [[List Song]]. She does, with great effort, manage to prepare one specialty: a peeled banana.
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== Video Games ==
* Raine Sage in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' is a teacher, the sole parental figure for her kid brother, and a notoriously bad cook.
** Subversion: in the same game, Sheena is one of the best cooks the party has, especially regarding familial recipes (she gets this as a title: "the culinary master who raised home-style cooking to the highest level"), yet she's a [[Tsundere]] tomboyish [[Action Girl]]. However, the deviation from the trope is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in one scene where [[Handsome Lech]] Zelos [[Slap Slap Kiss|calls her on it]]:
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* Living up to her first name, Flora Reinhold of the [[Professor Layton]] series is about as feminine as you can get: always wearing dresses, being polite and soft-spoken, and even being a [[Damsel in Distress]] at one point. And, according to the games' ending credits, she cannot cook but seems to like to anyway.
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* Sakura in ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'' learned to cook to appeal to Shirou. One of her primary goals seems to be to outdo him at cooking and she gets a little antsy if she fails. Her unpleasant backstory drove away most of her feminine traits. And also most of her human ones.... But she's (a bit) [[The Woobie|better]] by the time the story starts. {{spoiler|Except in Heaven's Feel where those quick flashes of insecurity or jealousy she had in the previous two routes, coupled with the shards of the corrupted Grail that [[Complete Monster|Zouken's]] implanted into her cause her to go totally insane (eventually). She recovered, fortunately.}}
** Saber could count as a type 2 since she pretty much takes the cake in terms of being successful in a "man's world" in addition to being one of the powerful character in the series. It makes sense that she's doesn't know how cook, in fact it would be more strange if she did know how to. As such she depends on Shirou to cook for her, made more noticeable by the fact that she's a [[Big Eater]].
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* Played with in [[Girls Love]] [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Akai Ito]]''. The protagonist Kei is the most stereotypically-feminine amongst the female cast, but her cooking can only be described as biohazard. [[The Ladette]] Sakuya usually end up cooking for her.
* Marsha from ''[[CRFH]]'' massively subverts this. While she can have some pretty big [[
▲== Webcomics ==
▲* Marsha from ''[[CRFH]]'' massively subverts this. While she can have some pretty big [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere]] qualities, she's generally considered the most cute and feminine of the female cast. Her cuteness even borders on supernatural levels, with her "manga eyes" able to entrance almost any male, and small furry animals constantly following her due to her Snow White Syndrome. She also comes from a family of chefs and wants to be one herself. Despite all this, her cooking is considered slightly more toxic than toxic waste itself.
** Yanderes can usually cook well (since they're often subversions of the [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] type), so I think that makes this even more of a subversion.
* Tedd in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' can cook—but only when [[Gender Bender|he's a woman]]. His explanation is initially "because I'm hot" (and the comment on this background is "She's so hot, it helps her cook!"). [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-07-28 Later] he reasons that he only has to cook for himself when his dad isn't around, which is also when he turns himself into a girl, so he has accidently conditioned himself to feel more confident cooking in female form.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Doug]]''{{'}}s best gal pal the tomboyish Patti was shown in one episode to not be a good cook, despite that she's great at ballet.▼
▲* ''[[Doug]]'''s best gal pal the tomboyish Patti was shown in one episode to not be a good cook, despite that she's great at ballet.
* A episode of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' shows her as a disaster in the kitchen, getting by the end of the episode under the tutelage of her culinary genius [[Sidekick]] Ron Stoppable, (who was always more of "[[The Chick]]" [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy|out of the two]]). [[Fanon]] makes her a [[Lethal Chef]].
* In ''[[The Princess and the Frog]],'' the heroine, Tiana, loves to cook, and from the age of six shows off her prodigious gumbo skillz. Her dream is to own a beautiful, community-nurturing restaurant - a dream she inherited from her father. Note that she subverts this trope in that her dream is to be a ''professional'' chef, yet her skills were honed in her home kitchen.
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