Food For Thought

Sausages going MIA, a packet of ham that costs more than the GDP of Luxembourg, and a limited recipe repertoire – Rosie Green on culinary challenges

After a discussion about unfair division of household labour, Alpha Male (AM) has been assigned the weekly shop. This is good and bad. Good in that it is a big job ticked off my to-do list. Bad in that we will soon be bankrupt.

Oh, not for him the budget pack of tomatoes, he buys the ones that look like they’ve been picked on the Italian hills by a singing signorina. He goes to the fish counter and orders up salmon for R300. R300! At the deli, he watches, mesmerised as they do slice after (thick) slice of ham.

When he finally snaps out of his catatonic state, he’s spent the GDP of Luxembourg. He “Tastes The Difference”. He experiences the “Finest”. And when he returns home we might have nothing to make meals with, but we do have an extremely good selection of wines and olives.

When choosing your partner, you look for complementary skills. He brings DIY abilities, calmness in a crisis, and the ability to listen to directions. I bring, er, aesthetics.