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[[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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** 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.
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* 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.
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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 ''[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.
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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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* 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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* 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.
▲== 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.
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== 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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