I was under the impression that women were supposed to be able to cook, and had to be able to cook delicious meals to be considered truly virtuous, so maybe I'm just too biased and traditional in my thinking. But I have really seen female cooks who are very good at cooking, and these female cooks are no one else but my aunt and mother.

Auntie's family is a restaurant, opened more than ten years of restaurants, in our town's reputation is very good, people in the neighborhood like to go to her family restaurant to eat, because her family's food is delicious and clean, completely a whole street of restaurants are compared to down.

Previously, Auntie's restaurant had a chef, and every time the chef cooked, Auntie was there to give the chef a hand while she secretly watched how the chef cooked, and after a couple of years she learned all about the chef's skills.

Then the plot came to fruition, Auntie quit the chef on some pretext or other in order to save money, and then she became the chef herself and started cooking for the guests who came to her door.

But Auntie's craftsmanship is really not a lie, the guests who came to eat all said that Auntie's cooking is delicious, and compared with the original chef is not bad at all, Auntie is also happy to accept other people's compliments.

Every time my mother and I went to my aunt's house, she would make a big table of delicious food. My favorite dishes she made were braised carp, ground three fresh, slipped meat section, a product of tofu.

The first time I ate Yipin tofu was at my aunt's house. The white tofu was boiled whole, then drizzled with chicken sauce, soy sauce and other condiments, then seasoned with shredded green onions, ginger, garlic and chili peppers, and a plate of Yipin Tofu was ready.

Auntie said she has a secret recipe for her yipin tofu, otherwise anyone who watched could learn how to make such a simple dish. I believe this very much, and this secret recipe has become a must-order dish for me every time I go to her house.

My mother is also a great female chef, although sometimes the cooking store those dengzhi dishes may not be very good at, but she made the home cooking is very much to my liking, such as braised pork, cola chicken wings, steamed pork and so on.

These dishes, though home-cooked and available in every household, are all difficult to prepare, and it seems unlikely to me that the average housewife would be able to make them particularly tasty.

But my mother's cooking of these home-cooked hard dishes gave me an authentic flavor. Having lived in Hunan for seven years, I remember the flavor of Mao's braised pork and steamed pork by heart. And my mother was originally from the south, so naturally she knew all these southern dishes like the back of her hand. All the dishes made by my mother's hands are covered with a layer of high color, so I can not help but marvel and admire.

Coke chicken wings is a very favorite of people in the north, this dish mother in the aunt's restaurant followed a month, finally learned. When she came home to make it for me, the first meal was a great success and made me feel like I had eaten something delicious on earth.

Great female chefs don't have to be high up on the altar, they may be all around us, our relatives and friends. As long as they cook to our taste, let us feel the taste of home and love, then they are the best female chef.