Feminine Women Can Cook: Difference between revisions

Not to be confused [[Stay in The Kitchen]] which, despite its name, isn't exactly related to this trope, although they can overlap.

 

 

== Anime ==

* In ''Tori Koro'', Yae is the only one in the three main girls who can cook (and only thing she can do good, she's bad at both physically (except baseball) and academically), provoking ire from others that she's more feminine than them.

* [[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.

* Aversion: In ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|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 the [[Mercy Thompson]] novels, Mercy is a Volkswagon mechanic who dresses in grubby T-shirts, snarks off incessantly to every macho-male she encounters, and devours small furry animals when she turns into a coyote. The one "girly" thing she does is to bake lots of cookies or brownies.

* In [[LM Montgomery]]'s ''[[Jane of Lantern Hill]]'', Jane takes to cooking like a duck to water, feeding both herself and her father though she was never allowed to cook before. She does prudently buy a cookbook first, and donuts defeat her.

 

 

* In an early ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode, Samantha Carter states that she couldn't cook to save her life. However, in another episode several years later, she mentions that she makes "a mean soufflé", providing further evidence that the former episode [[Canon Dis Continuity|never happened]].

** "I cook a mean souffle" is a [[Stock Phrase]] joke. It doesn't at all mean she ''can'' cook.

* On ''[[Friends]]'' Rachel cannot cook at all - it is suggested due to her pampered, privileged background - but Monica can, and is a professional chef. Both are career women living in the city.

** Joey loved Rachel's 'traditional' trifle. [[Epic Fail|With beef.]]

'''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.

**** In the first Tales of Symphonia, there is actually a skit that [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the aversion. Lloyd notices that Regal is a vastly superior cook to Raine, and Regal says that more men are good at cooking because of their physical strength. In the same skit he says women are more equipped to fighting.

** This is a habit in the Tales series. The main character is always good at cooking. The main heroine is almost always a bad cook. Then the second woman in the party (like Sheena) is either good at cooking, or neutral. It's usually done to get some laughs at how bad the heroine's cooking is.

 

* ''[[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.

* 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.

* As noted above, Colette from ''[[Ratatouille (Animation)|Ratatouille]]'' twists this trope around by being strong, feminine, and an outstanding chef at one of Paris' top restaurants all at once. She makes a speech partway through the film which essentially a big [[Take That]] to the notion that women can only cook within the home.