Dear Casper and Bill,
What am I going to do with my boyfriend? He's pretty much perfect in every way – except one. He just can't cook! He's perfectly happy with just nuking a frozen burrito in the microwave every night, and his idea of a gourmet meal is a pepperoni pizza with extra cheese. Aside from the fact that I'd love to make a nice, home-cooked meal with him, I worry about his health. But he's very stubborn, and nothing I've done up to this point has worked. Is there any way for me to kick this relationship up a notch?
Dear Julia,
Our friend Julia Child wrote on of the best cook books ever, “The Joy of Cooking,” back in the '60s, and it is still one of the best ever. To convert your junkie to the finer joys of food, begin with you preparing some of the recipes in the book.Tease him with delicious goodies and throw in a pizza every so often; graduate to a sumptuous roast with pommes de microwave, fried gefilte fish with matzah chips, sauteed corned beef hash, and exotic Twinkies. Enjoy a fine Kool-Aid vintage wine, chilled of course. What we're trying to say is that you've got a junk food boyfriend who, until he gets a health issue or gains 100 pounds, will continue to eat the easy way out of your life. That is, unless you wrestle him to the ground and threaten him with denying him all your “goodies.”
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