Dee Randall wrote:
> "OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
> >
> > Mom let me fry my first egg at age 5. :-)
> >
> > She helped me of course.......
> > --
> > Om.
>
> Probably told this befo
> Went to a neighbor's house (far away - in the country) for a visit. A girl
> my age (about 5) asked me if I wanted to go into the kitchen with her and
> make some eggs. It was a wooden stove -- no heat was on -- and there was a
> large cast-iron skillet filled 2/3 full of bacon grease. She cracked some
> eggs into it and we stood there watching for them to cook. I'll never
> forget it.

There's absolutely no reason a five year old can't cook. There are
three year olds that can play golf better than many 40 year olds who
have been playing for 25 years... seen it for myself just last summer
at a special tournament at Thunderheart, amazing.

I learned to bake bread with a giant coal stove at my grandmother's
side, gigantic round loaves of Russian Black bread with crust a half
inch thick, dropped from a first floor window could kill a man, I was
three. There was no packaged bread then, you either baked your own
from scratch or paid exhorbitant prices at bakeries, like 5¢/loaf. My
grandmother ran a tourist home in the borshst belt, what nowadays is
called a B & B... only then there were all year boarders, she prepared
three hearty meals a day for about twelve adults and me. I haven't had
bread that good since, probably because the dough rose all night under
the sheets in my grandmother's bed. Any three year old can bake bread
once shown how... but to do it well one must have natural talent.