Feminine Women Can Cook: Difference between revisions

** Which leads to a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when Batman, after a grim monologue, turns and says "Diana, Alfred will need that '''recipe'''."

** A weirder aversion in ''[[Young Justice (comics)|Young Justice]]'', in which Artemis, Diana's counterpart from the more savage Amazons, reveals she can cook during Wonder Girl's [[Training From Hell]]. There's nothing feminine about it though...

'''Cassie''': Oh, perfect. I can't even reheat mac and cheese. }}

* [[Depending on the Writer]], [[Superman|Lois Lane]] is a Type 2.

** In ''[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0402.html#tortoise The Prince and the Tortoise]'', the tortoise cooks a meal for the king.

** In ''[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0402.html#wardrop The Frog's Skin]'', the frog secretly cooks for her husband before he learns it is her.

 

== Film ==

* [[Little Women|Louisa May Alcott]] was very fond of this trope. The scenes putting Jo March through the 'feminine redemption for the tomboy' version in ''LW'' were repeated in several other of Alcott's novels and short stories, as her heroines contemplate taking up a profession and are firmly told that the most honourable profession for any woman is to [[Stay in the Kitchen|make a happy, comfortable home for her family.]] There is however a semi-subversion in ''Eight Cousins'' -- while this is specifically tied to the small heroine learning to bake the perfect loaf of bread, it's presented as only one aspect of an education that also involves learning to sail, ride and generally become 'strong-minded', right alongside her seven boy cousins.

* 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.]]

* In [[Belisarius Series]] Lady Sanga is so good a cook that the absence of onions at the place she was supposedly murdered makes her husband wonder if she really was murdered. In her case she was an aristocrat and didn't need to cook or even do much of anything. She just loved cooking.

* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Chaos]]'', Vanity (the more feminine of the two girls), can barely make coffee, and the less said about her "hamburger" the better. However, Amelia notes that whatever she does make tends to taste delicious anyway.

** That's more of a "everyone has accidents" thing, she had said it because an attorney tried to use setting a stove on fire as a reason to show that a woman with Down's Syndrome is incompetent to raise a child.

* Tyler, Wendy's new boyfriend on ''[[The Middleman]]'', cooks for her.

"It's the big metal box where you keep the extra paint." }}

** She returns the favor to him in "The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome" when she cooks a few...Hot Pockets.

* On one episode of ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'', Nina is asked to cook a meal for a congressman she's dating. (She was auditioning for a stuffing commercial, long story.) An aging former model who's never been on a kitchen her adult life, she has to ask Maya for help over the phone. Maya has been seen hosting a dinner in at least one episode, and although no comments, good or bad, are ever made about her cooking, it can be assumed that she's at least a competent cook, possibly subverting type 2.

* Played with in ''[[Firefly]].'' In ''Our Mrs. Reynolds,'' Mal's almost painfully submissive new wife [[The Mole|Saffron]] turns out to be a fabulous cook. Zoe is not amused when Saffron suggests she cook for her husband, and is even less amused when Wash drools over Saffron's cooking. However, in ''War Stories,'' a rather touching scene has Zoe cooking for Wash after he leads the charge to rescue Mal.

* Played with in ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]''. Cara is chopping wood while Kahlan gathers it, and she chides Zedd and Richard for fussing over the food while the women chop and gather wood. Zedd answers that on a team, every member of the team should perform according to their abilities...and considering Cara's last attempt at cooking, she should stick to chopping.

* Used to a remarkable extent in ''[[Kyle XY]]'', despite both parents working. During a period when the mother of the family Nicole isn't cooking the rest of them don't even seem to consider the possibility that maybe someone else could cook, subsisting entirely on takeout food.

* 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]]:

'''Sheena:''' N...no, it's not that! Sheesh! }}

** It turns out that Marta in the sequel, ''Dawn of the New World'', Marta can't cook either. In fact, when Sheena joins the party, a skit shows Emil crying from happiness because he never found a woman who could cook before Sheena.

* Bridgette of ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' is the #3 type, of course she's better then Lindsey!

* In the episode "Johnny Daddy Day" from ''[[Johnny Test]]'', it is shown that Johnny's [[Workaholic|super-busy working mom]] Lila and [[Teen Genius|genius inventor sisters]] Mary and Susan have no experience in cooking whatsoever. They aren't even sure what a spatula is or does. Under the guidance of Johnny (who took a cooking class to get an easy A grade), they manage to make a meatloaf for Hugh for Father's Day, only for it to [[Lethal Chef|come alive and attack him]].

* Mrs Turner on ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' apparently can't cook very well, having fed her family with live squid casserole, shoes, food items that have been so foul they started attacking the rest of the family... Cosmo also seems to imply that Wanda's cooking is bad as well.