Hispanic males learn kitchen survival (skills)

Marco Antonio Rosales learned to cook the way many immigrant men do: from a cell phone. Soon after arriving in the Washington area five years ago, the young construction worker found himself on the horn to a mountain town in western Guatemala, burning up calling-card minutes in pursuit of domestic skills he never learned at home.

“I would ask my mother or my wife: How do you cook this soup? How do you prepare the beans?” Rosales said.

The women were amused and delighted to impart some advice remotely, Rosales said, maybe all the more so because it shattered the norms of their machismo society. “In my country, a man would never go into the kitchen and a woman would never go into the field. Here, I was forced to learn.””*

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