On 2019-01-23 4:35 a.m., ChattyCathy wrote:

>
> Breakfast was sacred to him: bacon, sausage, eggs, fried tomato,
> mushrooms sometimes - and toast. He was always pickling something and
> making jams/preserves too. He was also a pressure cooker fan - he had 3
> of them.
>
> Obviously, if somebody is suffering from Alzheimer's/dementia or from
> some other disability that could cause them harm if they were let loose
> in the kitchen is out (at any age) - but that doesn't affect everyone
> (thank goodness).
>
> So, you may well still be cooking up a storm when you're 85. Jes' sayin'.
>
Pretty much the same with my father who cooked until he died at 93.
Breakfast was always a fry-up using lard until he "discovered" cooking
oil when he was about 90.

On 1/23/2019 9:33 AM, graham wrote:
> On 2019-01-23 4:35 a.m., ChattyCathy wrote:
>
>>
>> Breakfast was sacred to him: bacon, sausage, eggs, fried tomato,
>> mushrooms sometimes - and toast. He was always pickling something and
>> making jams/preserves too. He was also a pressure cooker fan - he had 3
>> of them.
>>
>> Obviously, if somebody is suffering from Alzheimer's/dementia or from
>> some other disability that could cause them harm if they were let loose
>> in the kitchen is out (at any age) - but that doesn't affect everyone
>> (thank goodness).
>>
>> So, you may well still be cooking up a storm when you're 85. Jes' sayin'.
>>
> Pretty much the same with my father who cooked until he died at 93.
> Breakfast was always a fry-up using lard until he "discovered" cooking
> oil when he was about 90.

As long as you have your mental faculties and are physically capable, I
see no reason to give up cooking just because you're old. Julia Child
is a case in point.

Jill