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17	->''"Is this the kind of wife you want, Ben? Not someone to help you, not a wife to cook and sew and cry and need, but this kind. Selfish, vain, useless. Is this what you really want?"''
18	-->-- '''Eve''', ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E6MuddsWomen Mudd's Women]]"
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20	If a female character is feminine, she will be able to cook. If she isn't, then any and all attempts to cook will [[EpicFail end in failure]] or [[LethalChef poison the consumer.]] Thus the GirlyGirl will be a better cook than the {{Tomboy}}.
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22	By feminine, we mean traditional [[HouseWife domestically-focused wife-like roles]]. Being [[TheVamp sexy]] isn't enough to qualify. You can also lose femininity by becoming [[{{Kawaiiko}} overly childish and cute]]. We are talking about a traditionalist grown woman femininity here; The Wife of TheThreeFacesOfEve.
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24	Keep in mind that this trope refers to ''home'' cooking, not professional cookery. (Although working in a restaurant may still be counted as one of the AcceptableFeminineGoalsAndTraits depending on how it's presented.) Younger tropers might be surprised to learn that before the 1980s, women were generally not allowed to work as professional chefs.[[note]]Famous female chefs do seem to have worked professionally pre-1980, whether in their own eateries or publicly.[[/note]] The excuse usually given was that the work was "too physically hard" for women, but in reality, the common belief was that although a woman could make an adequate home cook, she could ''never'' be a real chef, because [[DoubleStandard being a chef took a certain genius]] that no woman could possibly ever, ''ever'' have. The resistance to women working as professional chefs was so strong that some women who tried ended up having to leave the profession to protect themselves from sexual harassment and violence. Thus Colette in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' can cook and be a fiery feminist heroine at the same time --as she points out, she ''has'' to be a fiery cook in order to become a chef at all.
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26	This trope is fairly recent, as before the arrival of electric and gas ranges (and of packaged meat) cookery was dirty, hard work that if anything ''sharply'' detracted from a woman’s perceived femininity, especially in a time when ‘true’ femininity was considered to be possessed only by the genteel. A proper lady living in the 18th or 19th century might make preserves or distill perfumes or medicines - and would have a stillroom in which to do so - but (as Mrs. Bennet rightly points out in ''Pride & Prejudice'') would not be caught dead even so much as walking into her own kitchen, let alone cooking in it.
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28	Compare the male equivalent ManlyMenCanHunt for traditionally male activities in which modern successful men lose the ability to perform manly abilities as a function of their "sacrifices" for success. Fishing, car repair, hunting, plumbing, carpentry, etc.
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30	Compare also HarpOfFemininity, an alternative and somewhat more refined way to emphasize a woman's femininity. Also compare TextileWorkIsFeminine, which is similar but has fallen more victim to the UsefulNotes/IndustrialRevolution. Also see ThroughHisStomach for one use a feminine woman can put it to -- whether in a romantic or maternal situation.
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32	Not to be confused with StayInTheKitchen, which, despite its name, isn't exactly related to this trope, although they can overlap. Inverted with DadsCantCook or RealMenCook, depending on your perspective.
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40	* American food companies in the 1950s tried to wrap up their mixes and other convenience foods as an easier way to cook because otherwise women resisted them, fearing they would fall afoul of this trope if they used them. (They still resisted even with it, just not so much.)
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44	* In ''Manga/AiKora'', one of the signs that {{ninja}} girl Kirino is actually a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak is that she's an excellent cook.
45	* In ''Manga/AngelicLayer'', the anime in particular, cute lead character Misaki is an excellent cook and is told that she'll make a good bride someday. Her tomboyish and violent best friend, Kizaki Tamayo, begins to get jealous of her ability when it looks like Misaki will win the boy they both like, Koutarou: he loves Misaki's food, but Tamayo can't even crack an egg right. In an odd twist, this is expanded upon ''much'' more in the version in which Tamayo [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend does win,]] and barely glossed over in the one where she [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend loses.]]
46	* The protagonist Ryousuke in ''Manga/BlueWars'' plays with this trope in an interesting way because he is a heavily muscled marital artist with the heart of a maiden in love and the feminine interests to match. His cooking skills (good enough to get a compliment from his crush) are evidence of how he fits this trope to a T--except for the fact that he isn't actually a feminine woman, [[ItMakesSenseInContext he just really badly wants to be one.]]
47	* Referenced in ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex''. After Touma nearly kills himself helping Mikoto [[spoiler:and the Sisters clones]], she buys him some cookies as thanks. He protests that the reward would usually be homemade cookies, and Mikoto (a textbook tomboy) demands to know exactly what kind of girl he thinks she is. ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', however, shows that she afterward ''did'' bake him some cookies herself (with Saten's help), but was too embarrassed to give them to him.
48	* In ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', the HotBlooded Rosette can't cook. In a flashback, Chrono is shown ''foaming at the mouth'' when he first tries one of Rosette's cookies. Later, she's shown to have improved enough that her food is edible, but it still ''looks'' disgusting. In comparison, [[{{Meido}} Fiore's]] cooking is to die for, and in the anime, Azmaria and Chrono (of all people!) are both shown to be good cooks, as well.
49	%% * ''Manga/CookingPapa'': Araiwa's wife is a reporter without the time (or skills) to cook her family's meals. Fortunately her husband's workplace is at only five minutes from home.
50	* Aoba in ''Manga/CrossGame'' is the Tomboy category, while her feminine sister Wakaba can cook quite well.
51	* Toyed with in ''Manga/DearBrother''. On one hand, the YamatoNadeshiko-in-training Nanako is a SupremeChef and TheLadette Kaoru is a LethalChef. (Which gets a lampshade in the fourth episode of the anime, with Kaoru epically failing to separate egg whites and yolks and Nanako teaching her to do so). On the other, the ''other'' local {{tomboy}} Tomoko is ''just'' as good of a cook as Nanako is.
52	* The main female lead of ''Anime/{{Daltanious}}'' is a traditional YamatoNadeshiko who likes cooking for her male counterparts and enjoys cleaning as a hobby. She's also a medic and tends to the wounded, since the anime is set during a post-apoctalyptic AlienInvasion.
53	* Inverted in ''Manga/DNAngel'': the tomboyish Riku Harada can cook while her girly-girl sister Risa is a bonafide LethalChef. This is justified by their personalities: Riku is more hardworking and responsible while Risa is more spoiled and childish (she gets better in the manga).
54	* In ''Anime/FatePrototype'', the very girlish-looking [[http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130712150129/typemoon/images/a/aa/Manakasilver1.jpg Manaka Sajyou]] took care of the housework after her and Ayaka's mother either died or disappeared. That certainly included handling the family kitchen.
55	* Thoroughly played with in ''Manga/FoodWars'' whenever the topic comes up.
56	** First, it's subverted in an omake when girls try to appeal to guys by making them food, only for Nikumi's tsundere 'I just made too much' excuse to fall flat when she sees that everyone in the Polar Star Dorm really ''did'' make too much food because they cook constantly and are having trouble getting through it all. Then we see two fangirls of the Aldinis try to share lunches with them, only for Takumi and Isami's food to be much better, leaving all three girls depressed. Then it's inverted when the extremely masculine and popular Jouichirou had female classmates begging for his failure dishes, showing lovestruck eyes after a BDSM-themed foodgasm. His food still makes pretty girls swoon even in the present.
57	** More seriously, it's acknowledged at multiple points that the field of professional cooking is dominated by men and that women only rarely manage to reach great success and acknowledgement. For example, at least one student feels she needs the prestige of the First Seat to be acknowledged at her family's restaurant by the sexist male staff and we have yet to see a single female student who either has or has had the position of First Seat of the Elite Ten at Tootsuki.
58	** Particularly played with when it comes to Megumi. She's extremely feminine and supportive in a 'girl next door' sort of way, which has great influence on her cooking. Rather than emphasize technical perfection or ingenuity like her male or more aggressive female counterparts, she prefers to use simple ingredients with painstaking care put into thinking about who is going to eat it. However, while this does make her the most girly girl in the cast, it's also nearly gotten her expelled on at least three different points throughout the story and also causes her to be overlooked in favor of students like Alice or Miyoko, even if she actually scores higher than the latter and makes much more enjoyable and comfortable food than the former.
59	* In ''Manga/GourmetGirlGraffiti'', Ryou's grandmother taught Ryou to cook exactly for this reason. This is why Ryou wondered if she'll become a bad housewife at the beginning of the series as she found she hasn't been ''tasting'' as food lately (which is more because of loneliness than [[SupremeChef her cooking skills]]).
60	%% * ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'': [[AnIcePerson Yukime]] dreams of cooking delicious meals for her love interest, Nube, and when he can't enjoy them (since 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.
61	%% * Invoked in ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'' when Kaoru goes to her father ([[LikeFatherUnlikeSon who is a professional chef]]) to learn how to cook so she can be a better wife. Although her husband is perfectly fine with her burnt-rice-with-chunks-of-raw-carrot.
62	* GenderBender mangas ''Manga/{{Maomarimo}}'' and ''Manga/SekainohateDeAimashou'' both use this trope as partial justification for the ThirdLawOfGenderBending, which carries the rather… [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate implication]] that a boy with a feminine interest is not manly enough and is better off as a girl.
63	* Miia in ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' believes this trope and keeps trying to prove her suitability to be the girl Kimihito marries. Unfortunately, between being a [[SnakePeople lamia]] meaning that she has only 1/25th to 1/50th the taste buds of a human and her tendency to simply add ingredients to a dish because they look or sound like what's being made (for example, when trying to make white rice gruel she added white onions and white fish because they're all white), she's an exceptionally skilled LethalChef.
64	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
65	** [[ShrinkingViolet Hinata Hyuga]] in a filler episode of Part I ''Naruto'' and in an omake of ''Naruto Shippuden'' is shown to be an exceptional cook. And in ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'' she is shown as a SupremeChef with her son, Boruto, commenting once how she went overboard, and her husband Naruto mentioning how her food is delicious.
66	** [[{{Tsundere}} Sakura Haruno]] on the other hand, is shown in the aforementioned omake as LethalChef, being a medical ninja and her insistence on preparing "healthy" meals having something to do with it. By the time of ''Boruto'', she has improved her cooking skills considerably, after having been a housewife raising her daughter Sarada.
67	* In ''Manga/{{Otomen}}'', one's cooking skill is apparently correlated to femininity. {{Tomboy}} Ryo is a LethalChef, but when she briefly turned feminine due to a HeroicBSOD, she suddenly becomes a good cook. She loses her skills once she pulled herself together.
68	* In ''Manga/ParadiseKiss'', Isabella is constantly feeding everyone her exquisite traditional Japanese dishes. Coupled with her extremely feminine, motherly, and caring demeanor, she's the closest the series gets to a YamatoNadeshiko... apart from some [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} embarrassing biological details.]]
69	* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl Dawn]] was good at baking Poffins and [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesXY Serena]] is an excellent patisserie. [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire May]] subverts it despite her coordinator status by being a LethalChef.
70	* ''Anime/PrettyCure'':
71	** In ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'', the very feminine Love was taught to cook at a young age by her mother.
72	** In ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'', Kanade, the GirlyGirl to Hibiki's {{tomboy}}, is an excellent pastry chef.
73	** In ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'', the adorable Ribbon cooks for Hime, because Hime doesn't know how.
74	** ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'': Zigzagged. The very feminine Ichika, Yukari, and [[spoiler:Ciel]] are all fantastic cooks, but so is the shy Himari, and tomboyish Aoi and Akira.
75	** Subverted in ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'': Despite being cast in a cooking show, Saaya's famous actress mother can't cook very well.
76	** Inverted in ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'', where it's the tomboyish Asuka who likes to cook.
77	** ''Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure'': Like ''Kira Kira'' above, the Cures are all very girly, and excellent cooks. The same goes for Yui and Ran's mothers, and Yui's grandmother. Some male characters (ex. Rosemary) are shown to be good at cooking, but for the most part, the women are in charge of the kitchen.
78	** ''Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure'': The feminine Mashiro makes delicious bread that looks like clouds, which the tomboyish Sora loves.
79	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
80	** Akane Tendo's utter inability to cook symbolizes her tomboy inner nature, despite her preference for feminine garb. The fact that she ''desperately'' wants to learn to cook is a way of showing that she ''wants'' to be more feminine like her idolized older sister Kasumi. Ironically, WholesomeCrossdresser Ukyo's superlative cooking ability (she's a professional chef) is one indication that her inner nature is actually ''more'' feminine than dress-loving Akane. The only thing they have in common is [[GirlyBruiser martial arts.]]
81	** It's hinted that Nabiki Tendo can't cook, and can't be bothered to try, and prefers extremely expensive takeout instead. Since she is described as lacking a maiden's heart, the lack of cooking ability follows.
82	** Ranma is also able to cook basic meals, despite being a boy who hates being cursed to turn into a girl. His mother (unaware that the redheaded girl is the same person as her son) once compliments "her" cooking and immediately follows up with "You'll make a wonderful wife!" simply because of this skill. Needless to say, Ranma was not amused.
83	%% * ''Manga/RealBoutHighSchool'' (the anime version) has an episode where Ryoko and another girl compete to make lunch for the boy they have a crush on.
84	* A RareMaleExample occurs in ''AudioPlay/SaintBeast'' where an already [[LongHairedPrettyBoy very]] [[ViewerGenderConfusion effeminate]] character has his effeminacy further established by being the natural cook in his circle of friends.
85	* Princess Ann from ''Manga/Samurai8TheTaleOfHachimaru'', as part of an attempt to connect with her Samurai Lord, Hachimaru, she decides to make lunch for everyone. The meal is delicious... just not very appealing to the eye.
86	* [[YamatoNadeshiko Miya]] from ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'' is an interesting example. Her cooking is noted to be incredible, and she seems to be the very ideal of a housewife. However, it turns out that [[ButtMonkey Seo]] was the one who taught her everything she knows about cooking and keeping house. When she first married, she was horrible at anything related to keeping house -- ruining clothes, breaking the panels out of the shoji screens, and cooking food so horrific that her husband couldn't even swallow it while trying to insist it wasn't that bad.
87	%% * ''Manga/SorcererHunters'' has a fun example that fits with Tira's being somewhat offbeat: she's clumsy when she has to cook by conventional means, cutting her fingers and turning vegetables into rubble. But when she's allowed to "transform" and do it her own way, her prep is flawless.
88	* PlayedForDrama in ''Manga/SpyXFamily''. Yor is an assassin who got married to seem less suspicious, but due to her BunnyEarsLawyer nature (only being good at killing-related things), she is constantly worried about not seeming normal enough. She's good at cleaning (because of her experience in taking care of crime scenes), but she is a LethalChef (and good with poisons; it's unknown which came first). She tries to get her coworkers at her cover job to teach her to cook, and she eventually learns one recipe.
89	%% * In ''Literature/TheStoryOfSaiunkoku'', Shuurei, the protagonist, is the first ''ever'' woman politician in her country, and she is an excellent cook. Her red bean buns in particular are much loved by the other characters.
90	* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' series:
91	** Sasami's the usual cook for the household, mostly out of a desire to pay back for staying at Tenchi's house. However, there are times where both Ryoko (very much TheLadette) and Ayeka (TheOjou, meaning she's very girlish) attempt to cook, mostly to win Tenchi over. One issue of the manga series had Tenchi fall ill after one of Ryoko and Ayeka's fights knocked him into the lake, leading to both girls trying to cook for him. Both girls are horrible cooks, but where Ryoko plows through trying to cook (with disastrous results, Ayeka ends up swallowing her pride and Sasami aids her. It's all for naught, though - by the time Ayeka's done cooking, Tenchi's feeling much better and it's ''Mihoshi'' who's sick (she got that way trying her own idea to cure Tenchi).
92	** Ayeka takes after her mother Misaki, who, being an ActionGirl ''par excellence'', couldn't be bothered to learn, while Sasami chose to follow their ''grandmother'' Seto who is the best chef in the whole damn Galaxy. Which is ironic, because [[MagnificentBitch Se]][[TheAce to]] is probably even a greater ActionGirl than Misaki and still finds the time to teach her cooking to everyone who asks, despite being busy with [[TheManBehindTheMan running the empire]] and upholding her "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Demon Princess Of Jurai]]" nickname and screwing with everyone around.
93	* In ''Manga/ToriKoro'', Yae is the only one of the three main girls who can cook (and the only thing she can do well; she's bad at both physically (except baseball) and academically), provoking ire from others that she's more feminine than them.
94	* As seen above, Sumire from ''Manga/VenusVersusVirus''. The [[YoungerThanTheyLook slightly older]] Gothic Loli Lucia however could not cook well until Sumire taught her. Another variation that appears is that Sumire has a liking for flower arrangement.
95	* ''Manga/TheWallflower'': Sunako is an excellent cook, at least with Japanese food, and it's one of the big signs that she really is BeautifulAllAlong and Feminine All Along.
96	* ''Manga/WanderingSon'''s protagonist Nitori is quite good at baking, though she's not shown to do any other sort of cooking besides that; [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} she identifies as a girl despite her boy body]], and is pretty girlish as well. Her female peers aren't nearly as good at baking.
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100	* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': Tibbie, the makeup-loving [[TheHeart chick]] of the goats, is also stated to enjoy cooking.
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104	* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': DependingOnTheWriter, Lois Lane, as a career woman, can't cook. Clark can.
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108	%% * In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/allfur.html All Kind of Fur]]", she can cook a marvelous soup, and she also slips the ring he gave her into it.
109	%%* In "Literature/CapORushes", she makes gruel for the sick young man, which gives her a chance to put the ring in it.
110	%%* In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs/english/fishring.html The Fish and the Ring]]", the heroine swings a job in the kitchen, which is how she happens to cook the fish that has the ring -- and so make her father-in-law give up his persecution.
111	%%* In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/russian/folktalesfromrussian/tsarevnafrog.html The Frog Princess]]", cooking a loaf of bread is one of the brides' tests.
112	%%** In "[[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0402.html#aung The Frog Maiden]]"', the frog makes rice and meat.
113	%%** In "[[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0402.html#tortoise The Prince and the Tortoise]]", the tortoise cooks a meal for the king.
114	%%** In "[[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0402.html#wardrop The Frog's Skin]]", the frog secretly cooks for her husband before he learns it is her.
115	%%--->''In a short time the frog leaped out of the fireplace, jumped over to the doors, and all around the room. Seeing no one there, it went back and took off the frog's skin, put it near the fire, and came forth a beautiful maiden, fair as the sun; so lovely was she that the man could not imagine anything prettier. In the twinkling of an eye she had tidied everything, prepared the food, and cooked it. When everything was ready, she went to the fire, put on the skin again, and began to croak.''
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119	%%* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'' has Chloe Cerise spend time in the Library of Flying Books Car cooking a chef's salad and meatball soup for her, Atticus, and the flying books.
120	%%* Inverted in ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia''. Pyrrha, Weiss, and Nora have never stepped into a kitchen to cook something themselves. Izuku, the only one on the team with cooking experience (and is a particularly skilled pastry maker because of his [[SeriousBusiness rivalry with Ren]]) is uneasy about leaving them alone in the kitchen, but they insist on making one meal for him before winter break because he's cooked for them all semester. The resulting mess (an attempt at chicken curry) looks like it's [[LethalChef poisonous, covered in mold, may or may not be moving, and somehow got black hair in it]] when none of them have black hair. They agreed to [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain never speak of it again]] and the sight of it would haunt them all for the rest of their days.
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124	* While just a minor character, Mirabel's mother in ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' is the most feminine ([[OnlySaneWoman and stable]]) woman of the family. Her Gift is making food with magical healing powers.
125	* Pictured above: In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog,'' the heroine, Tiana, loves to cook, and from the age of six shows off her prodigious gumbo skills. Her dream is to own a beautiful, community-nurturing restaurant where she herself is the head chief. Her skills were honed in her home kitchen but, like Collette, she is a ''professional'' chef who's worked her whole life to get where she is.
126	* Colette from ''WesternAnimation/{{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 is a TakeThat to the notion that women can only cook within the home, which is clearly a BerserkButton.
127	** It's also Averted in the food industry as a whole- there's a ''lot'' of ingrained sexism and it's very hard for a woman to get into ''haute cuisine''. Colette managed it because she was willing to go through hell for it.
128	* In ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', Snow White's ability to cook is one of her defining traits and what ultimately convinces the dwarfs to let her stay with them. Within the film we see her cook a pot of soup and later gooseberry pies for the dwarfs; she also mentions that she can make apple dumplings and plum pudding.
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132	* Film ''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.
133	* Lara Croft in ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'' even screws up reheating a ready meal in a microwave. She's of noble blood, and her butler does all the cooking. She's also most definitely ''not'' feminine. The one time she puts on an elegant dress, her butler nearly has a heart attack (he's been trying to get her to act like a proper lady for years) and quickly corrects the situation by serving her guns on a tray.
134	* Éowyn in Creator/PeterJackson's ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'' is shown to be a horrible cook by Aragorn's wordless expression when she attempts to make stew for him (matching at least two trope variants, since Éowyn is not at all happy in a medieval woman's role ''and'' she has an unrequited crush on Aragorn). It probably helps that she's highborn, so she probably has servants for cooking, and she's traveling with minimal equipment.
135	%% * ''Film/NoNameOnTheBullet'', Anne is introduced making a meal for Luke and Asa. Asa warns her to never let Luke in the kitchen after they are married because everything he cooks tastes like a prescription.
136	%% * Lee Leander in ''Film/RememberTheNight'' cooks some muffins, and is told by Aunt Emma that the way into a man's love is by cooking for him. Lee doesn't really believe this and throws muffins right in front of Sargent out of anger.
137	* ''Film/WomanOfTheYear'' 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 rendered helpless in the "woman's world."
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141	* Iria Gai from ''Literature/AliceGirlFromTheFuture''. She was raised as an ultimate tomboy and was known to live for years on sandwiches. Then she fell in love and married...
142	%% * In ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'', Lady Sanga is so good a cook that the absence of onions at the place she was supposedly murdered makes her husband wonder if she really was murdered. In her case, she was an aristocrat and didn't need to cook or even do much of anything. She just loved cooking.
143	* In ''Literature/TheBible'', this is one of the traits of the ideal wife in [[Literature/BookOfProverbs Proverbs 31]]. "She is like a merchant fleet, bringing her food from afar. She rises while it is still night, and supplies provisions for her household, the daily fare of her maids." She's also [[TextileWorkIsFeminine pretty handy with a spindle]]. (It's part of a very big list; being able to do ''any'' of it is seen as a good thing. That said, if she CAN cook, it means another skill that doesn't need to be outsourced.)
144	* In ''Literature/TheBlackCompany'', this appears in the form of "Non-Feminine Women Can't Cook". The Lady, Sleepy, and the Radisha, all powerful and formidable women, can't cook at all. The male narrator says at one point that he doesn't think any of them could boil water without burning it.
145	* In Creator/PoulAnderson's "Break", Cleonie -- previously noted by the captain as a feminine woman -- is the sole passenger among the survivors of TheMutiny. When the (male) crew desperately work to save themselves in a damaged crew, she feels helpless, but the captain counters that she keeps the meals coming.
146	%% * In Creator/JohnHemry's ''[[Literature/PaulSinclair Burden Of Proof]]'', Carl talks of how Paul and Jen have settled down since they started to date; he expects Jen to knit and cook and stuff. Paul observes that she does nothing more than microwave meals -- but there's nothing like a home-microwaved meal.
147	%% * Double subverted in ''Literature/DragonBones'': While they're roasting meat over open fire, Ward tells his sister Ciarra that she's doing it wrong. In the end, though, his piece of meat is burned, while hers is okay. He was very distracted and irritable at the time.
148	%% * Molly Carpenter from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' is committed to getting Harry Dresden healthier, by cooking healthy meals for him. Unfortunately, though she can make a mean cup of coffee, a chef she [[LethalChef ain't.]]
149	%% --> '''Harry''': Once she burned my egg. My boiled egg. I have no idea how.
150	%% * In Creator/PatriciaCWrede's ''Literature/EnchantedForestChronicles'' story "Utensile Strength", one woman breaks her engagement on discovering her fiance can bake better than she does. (Four others get engaged on the spot, thinking this might be useful.)
151	%% * In Creator/CSLewis's ''Literature/TheFourLoves'', part of Mrs. Fidget's control techniques was to cook for her family.
152	%% * In Creator/SarahAddisonAllen's ''Literature/TheGirlWhoChasedTheMoon'', Julia became an obsessive cook while pregnant. Sawyer's mother also cooked, habitually for him.
153	%% * In Creator/LMMontgomery's ''Literature/JaneOfLanternHill'', 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.
154	* Louisa May Alcott was very fond of this trope. The scenes in ''Literature/LittleWomen'' putting Jo March through the 'feminine redemption for the tomboy' version were repeated in several other of Alcott's novels and short stories, as her heroines contemplate taking up a profession and are firmly told that the most honourable profession for any woman is to [[StayInTheKitchen make a happy, comfortable home for her family.]] Which doesn't mean they always follow it, anyway.
155	* In the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, [[ActionGirl Mara Jade]] tries to give Luke a taste of home by cooking a Tatooine dish. She screws it up. Luke, perhaps for the sake of her feelings (or just to escape [[BerserkButton her rage]]), tells her that it smells just like he remembers; and that he really wanted to leave Tatooine because of the food.
156	* Invoked in ''Literature/SummersAtCastleAuburn'' when Roderick says this. Corie points out to him that's stupid because most noblewomen can't cook.
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160	%% * Barney Fife of ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' feels this way, and initially is dead set against Andy dating Helen Crump because she doesn't know how to cook very well. Andy, however, doesn't really care when she says she and any man she marries would have to make do with TV dinners. Barney is horrified, but all Andy says is that he likes TV dinners.
161	%% * ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': Starbuck can cook, as seen in "Daybreak".
162	%% * Ellie May of ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'' may be as down-to-earth country as any of the Clampetts, but she can't cook for nuthin'.
163	* ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman,'' where Michaela, a highly educated and competent doctor, cannot cook at all. This plays into a few different aspects of her personality, including the fact that she decided to become a FrontierDoctor rather than marry, after a childhood spent with a father who made her his protégé despite not being the son he wanted. While not masculine, Michaela is definitely more practical than the other women she interacts with, which translates into being less overtly feminine. Although even if she had married, it's implied it's unlikely she'd be expected to know how to cook anyway, as she was raised in privilege and this is another demonstration of her FishOutOfWater experience on the frontier.
164	* Played with in ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. In "[[Recap/FireflyE06OurMrsReynolds Our Mrs. Reynolds]]", Mal's almost painfully submissive new wife Saffron turns out to be a fabulous cook. Zoe is not amused when Saffron suggests she cook for her husband, and is even less amused when Wash drools over Saffron's cooking. However, in "[[Recap/FireflyE10WarStories War Stories]]", a rather touching scene has Zoe cooking for Wash after he leads the charge to rescue Mal.
165	-->''"Mmmmmm. Wife soup."''
166	* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'':
167	%% ** Lorelai Gilmore and her teenage daughter Rory subsist on junk food, diner food, and takeout. Lorelai ended the series with Luke, a diner owner. (While she is an incompetent cook, she is an excellent seamstress and can whip up a fancy dress in under a week.)
168	%% ** 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.
169	** Lorelai's best friend Sookie works as a chef, but she's also shown as a feminine woman who loves cooking and happily feeds her husband and children. And occasionally Lorelai and Rory.
170	%% * Marnie Madden from ''Series/TheHour'' gets her own cooking show in the second series, where she acts as a stereotypical fifties wife. Shame her actual life is a bit more complicated.
171	* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
172	** Lily is the girly girl and feminine woman of the group. Some episodes mention that Lily is a great cook and bakes excellent cakes or cookies. For instance, she prepared the very delicious Thanksgiving dinner.
173	** SweetBaker Victoria, Ted's girlfriend, is a very pretty and sweet woman, and a professional baker who met Ted at one wedding. She often bakes cupcakes for Ted.
174	%% * On one episode of ''Series/JustShootMe'', Nina is asked to cook a meal for a congressman she's dating. (She was auditioning for a stuffing commercial, long story.) An aging former model who's never been in a kitchen in her adult life, she has to ask Maya for help over the phone. Maya has been seen hosting a dinner in at least one episode, and although no comments, good or bad, are ever made about her cooking, it can be assumed that she's at least a competent cook.
175	%% * In ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'', Cara is chopping wood while Kahlan gathers it, and she chides Zedd and Richard for fussing over the food while the women chop and gather wood. Zedd answers that on a team, every member of the team should perform according to their abilities... and considering Cara's last attempt at cooking, she should stick to chopping.
176	* Lois in ''Series/LoisAndClark'' can't cook... as shown in one episode, at the end of which she inherits cookery talent from the ghost of a disgruntled housewife who possessed her. Cookery is never mentioned again.
177	%% * Peg Bundy from ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' is a pretty decent cook; she just never actually wants to and is so lazy that a packet of Jiffy Pop (that expired 3 years prior) is what she uses to celebrate. On the odd occasion that she actually puts any effort into it, she cranks out some world-class meals.
178	%% * Tyler, Wendy's new boyfriend on ''Series/TheMiddleman'', cooks for her. She returns the favor to him in "The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome" when she cooks a few...Hot Pockets.
179	%% -->"Lacey let me in. Don't worry, I only spent the first ten minutes digging through your underwear drawer. Now I'm testing your oven."
180	%% -->"We have an oven?"
181	%% -->"It's the big metal box where you keep the extra paint."
182	%% * ''Series/SchittsCreek'' has Joceyln and Moira. The motherly Joceyln knows how to cook and bakes for people, but Moira used to pass off her housekeeper's enchiladas as her own cooking, a fact that is revealed when Moira borrows Joceyln's kitchen to make them. The show has a gender-flipped version later with their spouses. The lunkheaded but masculine Roland knows how to grill, but Johnny doesn't because he always hires a chef to do the grilling.
183	%% * ''Series/SexAndTheCity'': Carrie Bradshaw is lucky if she can brew a pot of coffee. Thankfully all her major love interests know their way around the kitchen.
184	%% * In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E6MuddsWomen Mudd's Women]]", cooking is one skill that ought to be considered above looks.
185	%%-->'''Eve:''' Is this the kind of wife you want, Ben? Not someone to help you, not a wife to cook and [[TextileWorkIsFeminine sew]] and cry and need, but this kind. Selfish, vain, useless. Is this what you really want?
186	%% * Kitty Forman in ''Series/That70sShow''. It's so much that Eric and Red are helpless when she is angry with them and refuses to cook, leading them to eat processed simple foods like potato chips and pop tarts.
187	* Sheila from ''Series/TwoUpTwoDown'' is a typical feminine woman of The70s, happy with being in the kitchen and content to spend a morning going through her spice rack, whereas Flo, a more unconventional NewAgeRetroHippie, does nothing of the sort.
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191	* ''TabletopGame/{{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.
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194	[[folder:Theatre]]
195	* In ''Theatre/TheGoldenApple'', Miss Minerva bakes a seven-layer cake for the fair "just to prove I'm feminine." But Lovey Mars takes along her mincemeat pie and Mrs. Juniper brings her prize-winning angel food cake. And then old Mother Hare appears and offers her AppleOfDiscord to the most feminine of them all, for confectionery values of femininity.
196	* Implied/Downplayed in the female version of ''Theatre/TheOddCouple''. Florence (genderbent Felix) is a prissy former housewife who loves cooking, prides herself on her cooking, and is noted for her cooking skills. Olive (genderbent Oscar), meanwhile, is a sport-loving career lady (this version of the play's set in the mid-1980s) who late in the second act doesn't remember or even look to remove Florence's roast capon from the oven before it burns up past being saveable. %%
197	%% * In ''Theatre/OfTheeISing'', Wintergreen isn't too keen on marrying Diana Devereaux or any of the other BeautyContest 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 ThroughHisStomach straight to his heart.
198	%% * In ''Theatre/OnTheTown'', Hildy claims she can cook, but the bill of fare she presents to Chip consists of {{Double Entendre}}s served up in a ListSong. She does, with great effort, manage to prepare one specialty: a peeled banana.
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201	[[folder:Video Games]]
202	%% * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
203	%% ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' have Tifa Lockhart in this trope. Although, we don't see her cook. Several characters comment her cooking is wonderful. After ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' is released, we can see her cooking foods. Her specialty is eggs, chips, and pizza.
204	%% ** The ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII: Episode Zero'' {{Prequel}} novel reveals that between Lightning and Serah, the latter is the better cook. As for Lightning, [[http://tensai-shoujo.tumblr.com/post/78189867668/hope-a-microcosm-of-culinary-delight-did-he in a side conversation]] in [[VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII the third game]], she mentions that even though Serah was always better than her, she can still "grill a mean Behemoth steak." She admits in another sidequest to help out a chef that [[OneNoteCook Behemoth steak is the only thing she can cook.]]
205	* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'':
206	** Sumia is very girlish and tries to use her cooking to win over Chrom's affections. She also attempts to help [[SweetTooth Gaius]] gather good ingredients, [[HilarityEnsues with disastrous results.]] Some of Sumia's Event Tiles conversations have her saying she has made lunch for any of her love interests... [[CuteClumsyGirl and that she tripped over the lunchbox.]] [[RunningGag Twice.]]
207	** Noire, the ShrinkingViolet archer with a SplitPersonality, is very girly as well ''and'' she's great at baking.
208	** Lissa is a TomboyPrincess who tries to bake for Kellam. [[EpicFail She fails]]. She also attempts to cook for the aforementioned Gaius, and that goes a little better... since this time he's watching over her and giving her cooking lessons.
209	** Sully and her daughter Kjelle are ''the'' {{tomboy}}s of the army... [[LethalChef and neither can cook.]] Ironically, two of Sully's potential husbands/Kjelle's prospect dads are Gaius and Stahl, who are {{supreme chef}}s.
210	** Olivia is rather feminine in looks and personality, and according to her supports with Kellam she's pretty good at making sweets. And she ''can'' be paired up with almost all the aforementioned guys.
211	* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'':
212	** Played with. Ann, a tomboy, [[LethalChef cannot cook well]] in her [[VideoGame/HarvestMoon64 first appearance]]. Come its [[VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature successor port]], and she's one of the best cooks in the game.
213	** Eli is rather feminine and is a baker.
214	* Depending on the player, in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3's'' Citadel DLC a female Shepard romancing Kaidan can either avert this trope or play it straight depending on a dialogue choice made when Kaidan cooks for her ([[TheLadette Shepard]] being a textbook ActionGirl).
215	* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
216	** Played straight in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots''. Sunny is taught how to cook by Naomi, and it eventually becomes a plot point. [[spoiler:Sunny uses Raiden to deliver a coded culinary message indicating she'd attacked the Patriots]].
217	* Discussed in ''VideoGame/Persona3''; [[ShrinkingViolet Fuuka Yamagishi]], despite her gentle and supportive personality, perceives herself to lack femininity due to her talent at [[WrenchWench tinkering with computers and electronics]], and wants to learn how to cook to make up for it. Unfortunately, [[LethalChef her cooking is quite awful]]. However, the trope is played straight by [[TheHeart Yukari Takeba]], who's a decent but not great cook, and ''[[UpdatedRerelease Persona 3 Portable]]''[='s=] female protagonist who, while more of a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak, is such a SupremeChef that she can actually teach Fuuka how to cook properly.
218	** In [[VideoGame/Persona4 the sequel]] everyone assumes [[YamatoNadeshiko Yukiko Amagi]] will be an excellent cook before they try her cooking, as she's considered to be the most feminine girl in town and the inn her family runs is known to have good food. Unfortunately, she's also a [[LethalChef Lethal Chef]]-having no sense for what is actually good in food and being easily able to be talked into baffling culinary decisions by the even worse Chie.
219	* ''VideoGame/RuneFactoryOceans'':
220	** You start the game as the male protagonist Aden but have the choice of switching to the female protagonist Sonja once you've restored her body. Sonja will inherit all of Adel's skills with the exception of cooking, which will automatically be bumped up to 40 if Aden had any less than that.
221	* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'':
222	** ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'':
223	%%% *** Raine Sage is a teacher, the sole parental figure for her kid brother, and a notoriously bad cook.
224	*** Averted with Sheena who 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 ActionGirl. However, the deviation from the trope is {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d in one scene where HandsomeLech Zelos [[SlapSlapKiss calls her on it]]:
225	---> '''Sheena:''' Oh, well. It's fun to cook every now and then. I wouldn't want to get out of practice.
226	---> '''Zelos:''' Oh, Sheena, what does that mean? You practicing your cooking for when you get married? I didn't expect to hear that from you of all people!
227	---> '''Sheena:''' N...no, it's not that! Sheesh!
228	%% *** It turns out that in [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld 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.
229	%% ** 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.
230	%% ** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', this trope is tendency is played around with. [[TheHero Luke]] is a mediocre to bad cook with a somewhat exotic taste, while [[AloofDarkHairedGirl Tear]] (the main heroine) is a good cook (albeit she cooks roughly like a guy would as she was taught by her brother Van). Anise is the best cook in the game and is the second woman to join you. [[TheOjou Natalia]], meanwhile, is quite possibly the worst cook in the party, as there is a skit in which she tries to ''heal'' a burning soup and she repeatedly burns her dishes beyond recognition. [[spoiler:Asch is noted to be a surprisingly good chef, in contrast to Luke.]]
231	%% ** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'', the heroine [[WhiteMagicianGirl Mint]] is a wonderful cook and quite praised for her skills. [[{{Tsundere}} Arche]], on the other hand, has [[LethalChef made people faint with her cooking in multiple games.]] The main girl of ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'' is also a wonderful cook, though she's [[CuteBruiser not quite]] [[GoodOldFisticuffs as feminine]] as Mint.
232	** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' Cheria is the one usually cooking for the group and is the most feminine party member, often lampshaded as the TeamMom.
233	** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'' has [[CuteClumsyGirl Mimi]] the source of the recipes in the game.
234	* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', the very feminine Pyra's unique field skill is cooking, a skill that her less feminine "sister" Mythra lacks. The similarly feminine Vess also cooks dumplings that are famously delicious even though they're [[OneNoteChef the only thing she can cook]]. The tomboyish Mòrag, in contrast, is a self-admitted poor cook, though this seems to be more directly related to her experiences with combat; when she's tasked with gutting a fish, she gets the impression that it's trying to shame her with its gaze for stabbing it in the heart, so she leaves the task to Brighid instead.
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238	* ''VisualNovel/AmnesiaMemories''' fandisc ''Amnesia LATER'': The feminine heroine does a lot of cooking in the various stories. Partly justified, as she lives alone and knowing how to cook is a worthy skill in such a case. In Ikki's story, he expresses amazement at how well she cooks and she admits that she kind of had to learn to cook for herself because her father was often [[TheCasanova going out on dates with various women]].
239	%% * Played with Kotone in ''VisualNovel/CafeEnchante''. While in the beginning, her coffee-making skills and cooking was mediocre, with practice, she is able to prepare coffee that the caffeine-loving Misyr enjoys and several dishes that BigEater Ignis would always clean up.
240	* ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'':
241	%% ** Downplayed with Amanda. She certainly knows her way around a kitchen, but that’s mainly due to her working in a diner.
242	** Deconstructed with Lily. As she becomes more vulnerable, or more “feminine,” as it were, her cooking skills improve.
243	%% * Lauren from ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'' can learn to cook anything, sometimes with a minimum of “suitable” ingredients.
244	* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'':
245	** Sakura learned to cook to appeal to Shirou. One of her primary goals seems to be to outdo him at cooking and she gets a little antsy if she fails. Her [[BreakTheCutie unpleasant backstory]] drove away most of her feminine traits, and also most of her human ones... But she's (a bit) [[TheWoobie better]] by the time the story starts. [[spoiler:Except in Heaven's Feel where those quick flashes of insecurity or jealousy she had in the previous two routes, coupled with the shards of the corrupted Grail that Zouken's implanted into her, cause her to go insane (eventually). She recovered, fortunately.]] Interestingly enough, this actually originated as an InvokedTrope for her: [[spoiler:she believed that being as close to a perfect HouseWife would make her "worthy" of Shirou despite her internalized self-loathing over being DefiledForever.]]
246	** Saber takes the cake in terms of being successful in a "man's world" in addition to being one of the powerful characters in the series. It makes sense that she's doesn't know how to cook, in fact it would be more strange if she did know how to. As such she depends on Shirou to cook for her, made more noticeable by the fact that she's a BigEater.
247	%% * ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' features Rena, Rika, Mion, and to a lesser extent Satoko, who are quite skilled in cooking. They all have their reasons though. The man of the group, on the other hand, is closer to a Lethal Chef when he tries to cook something more elaborate than instant noodles; Rena's father is also a dreadful cook, but he still tries. Actually, no man can cook in this series.
248	%% * ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' plays around with this:
249	%% ** Lilly Satou is an excellent cook and has been cooking for her older sister Akira since they were young. The thing is... Lilly has been completely blind since birth.
250	%% ** Hanako Ikezawa, Lilly's friend, is an interesting case. Main character Hisao finds her cooking to be very good, but Lilly mentions that Hanako likes to experiment, and says it in a way that implies some of those experiments produced unpleasant surprises.
251	%% * Touko in ''VisualNovel/{{Suika}}'' learned to cook specifically to appeal to Yoshikazu. Sayaka is also going for this and is apparently a competent cook, but Souji is [[TheAce just better.]]
252	%% * Arcueid from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''. She is not brainless but she is an [[CloudCuckooLander airhead]] due to her empirical ignorance about the modern world or the world in general. She also happens to be the strongest thing on the planet (ORT don't count). Regardless, she has perfectly good reasons why she can't cook and depends on her love interest Shiki to cook for her, who is not an amazing cook but is good enough. She probably enjoys the fact that he cooks for her more than the actual cooking themselves anyway.
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256	* Marina of ''Webcomic/{{Castoff}}'' [[TastesLikeFriendship greets the heroes with a nice dinner]], makes them breakfast the next day and while joining the group, starts the list of her useful skills with cooking. She's easily the [[TeamMom most conventionally feminine of the women in the group]] that includes KungFuWizard Arianna and tomboy thief Rori.
257	* Tedd in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' can cook -- but only when [[GenderBender he's a woman]]. His explanation is initially "because I'm hot" (and the comment on this background is "She's so hot, it helps her cook!"). [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-07-28 Later]] he reasons that he only has to cook for himself when his dad isn't around, which is also when he turns himself into a girl, so he has accidentally conditioned himself to feel more confident cooking in female form.
258	* ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' features [=DiDi=], who lacks some of the attributes of extreme femininity, but who is certainly very, very female -- and who is a keen hobbyist cook, implied to be far and away the best in the kitchen of the lead cast.
259	%% * In ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'', [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0401.html Jordie takes a second to realize that his Mom bringing porridge means it's a dream because she never cooks.]]
260	* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-07-01 one choice Monique is presented with is Wife Material, with a conspicuous oven containing a dish.]]
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263	[[folder:Western Animation]]
264	* In ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'', Betty's grandmother is a RetiredBadass and can't cook to save her life.
265	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'''s best gal pal the tomboyish Patti was shown in one episode to not be a good cook, despite being TheAce in many other areas.
266	%% * Mrs Turner on ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' apparently can't cook very well, having fed her family with live squid casserole, shoes, food items that have been so foul they started attacking the rest of the family...Cosmo also seems to imply that Wanda's cooking is bad as well.
267	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' 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.
268	* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Pinkie Pie and Sugar Belle are two of the girlier ponies, and Pinkie Pie is a sweet lover who works in Ponyville's cake shop, while Sugar Belle runs her very own bakery. Rarity, the girliest of ponies, has also been shown to be a decent cook.
269	** On the flip side, tomboyish farm girl Applejack has proven to be good at cooking with her family's apples, which makes sense since that's one way her farm makes money.
270	* A running gag in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is that Marge buys into this a lot, but is in fact a pretty bland cook. She claims her secret ingredient is salt and is flummoxed at the idea that a spice rack could hold as "many" as 8 spices, claiming some must be doubles and having never heard of oregano before.
271	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'':
272	** ComicBook/{{Raven}} can't even cook pancakes.
273	** ComicBook/{{Starfire}}'s a straight example if you accept that Tamaranian cuisine is difficult for Earthlings to swallow at its best (unless you're [[BigEater Terra]]).
274	* In the episode "Johnny Daddy Day" from ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', it is shown that Johnny's [[{{Workaholic}} super-busy working mom]] Lila and [[TeenGenius genius inventor sisters]] Mary and Susan have no experience in cooking whatsoever. They aren't even sure what a spatula is or does. Under the guidance of Johnny (who took a cooking class to get an easy A grade), they manage to make a meatloaf for Hugh for Father's Day, only for it to [[LethalChef come alive and attack him.]]
275	-->'''Mary and Susan:''' We... might have used too much DNA.
276	%% * Claire from ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'' is able to whip up guacamole that impresses even Jim.
277	* Played very straight in ''WesternAnimation/WildWestCowboysOfMooMesa''. The tomboyish Cowlamity Kate is such a horrible cook that the others dread her recipe for rhubarb pie, while the more traditionally feminine Lilli Bovine's culinary skills are universally praised.
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