The bigger scandal than the Eurobond in Kenya is that women born
after 1980 cannot prepare proper meals to sustain a marriage. Now we
have a generation of men who will never know the healthy and spiritual
benefits of a proper homemade meal. If you are a Kenyan man who lives in
a city, you are probably used to the hodge-podge wives serve as dinner.
The level of laziness and dearth of creativity is not only annoying,
but quite unsettling. A standard weekday dinner mostly comprises
tasteless greens that have lived in the fridge for two and half weeks,
warmed unevenly in a microwave and served with badly-prepared ugali in
old ice-cream bowls. They usually serve this meal, sleepy and tired.
Even worse, the number of Luhya,Kikuyu, Luo and Kisii women who know how
to cook proper ugali is on a sharp decline.
We now have a generation of millennials who know how to mix their liquor punch better than brewing good tea for breakfast.
Just about the only other thing they know how to dish out is fruit
salad (in which case three-quarters of the damn thing will be watermelon
and paw-paw, which are really silly, terrible fruits). Now, the only
place the newly-married man can go for a proper meal is at his mother’s
or his favourite aunt’s place. That is where his best chapati or
traditional veges are served, yet he is married, pays rent and even has
two children.
Imagine there are women who serve their men cabbage with ugali?
Cabbage! The most useless, lifeless and tasteless excuse of all
vegetables. There are women over 19 who do not know how to prepare
chapati, but can dance to Mavado in a club. I mean, a woman should learn
how to cook before she can taste alcohol or bend over in clubs.
The advent of roadside chapati sellers and ready-made food in
supermarkets is to blame for women who are averse to cooking. I think we
are excusing mediocrity for no reason whatsoever.
Women still expect us to be men, provide security and be
breadwinners. If that’s the case, we should also subject them to the
standards that our mothers and grandmothers were subjected to. Our
grandmothers tilled the land from sunset to dawn, raised no fewer than
eight children on average, but still were able to ferment mursik, smoke
meat and dip the greens in milk, keeping our ancestors strong. This is
the reason we exist today. It does not make sense for a woman to spend a
whole Saturday in a salon if she cannot pass by Toi, Muthurwa, City
Stadium and other markets to buy some organic foods.
I mean, Karen housewives, married to men who run the country, go to
Toi to shop for proper food for their husbands who are nursing various
lifestyle ailments. I find it very irresponsible that some women go to
chamas for a whole Sunday to gossip and cannot find time to prepare
those chapatis that can make a man sneak from a football match for a
bite. Married men should stop condoning mediocrity in the name of
modernity.
Fair treatment means you be served traditional vegetables thrice a
week, millet porridge – made from organic flour – four times a week,
chapatis (twice a week), and your favourite dish, be it fish or mukimo,
twice a week. Insist that she must know how to cook ugali, unless she is
from a ‘certain community.’ Kenyan men don’t like nyama choma because
it is so good. They ravish it because they know how insulting the food
back home is. Yet, bad cooking kills sex life and spiritual bonding in a
marriage. It makes the man stray to look for food elsewhere. There is
no mincing words here, style up, women!
In an era that lifestyle diseases are taking people down, we cannot
afford wives we pay millions for in terms of bride price to play dumb in
the kitchen. If you are a man, kick the damn microwave out of your
kitchen, because it is where the laziness starts. A fridge is for ice
cubes for a man’s whisky. You may allow her to keep a few tomatoes and
milk for the children, but no cooked foods. There is no excuse
whatsoever to store cooked food in a fridge. Have a healthy weekend
Saturday, 16 April 2016
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