Cuisine & Culture

http://cuisine-and-culture.un-interpreters.org/      Int’l Working Women’s Day Edition/March 2011

Colleagues and friends, welcome back to this special edition of Cuisine & Culture. On this special occasion of International Working Women’s Day, Cuisine & Culture takes its hat off to all our female colleagues and spouses of our male colleagues for their hard work both in office and at home and for their exemplary roles as working women, as mothers, as wives, and as sisters as well. Women are increasingly holding up half of the sky if not more!

Within the UN organization gender main-streaming and women-empowering has been gathering steam. Here on the UNEP Gigiri campus WAVE (Women As Voice for Environment) is increasingly making its voice heard. Elsewhere in the world NOWs (National Organization of Women and CSWs (Commission on Status of Women) are cropping up like bamboo shoots all working towards the improvement of the fate of women and the rise of their status.

Cuisine & Culture hails the immense progress made by and for women. With its mission to help us, especially our sister colleagues, eat well and eat healthy to empower them to continue playing their aforesaid noble roles Cuisine & Culture challenges all the male colleagues to model themselves on Rudy, our Man in Apron, in sharing their better halves’ chores in kitchen and lighten their burden of cooking as the best gift you can give to them on each and every International Working Women’s Day!

Colleagues and friends, exploring the world of cooking can be hugely rewarding, turning daily chores into a much-looked-forward-to fun hobby. Look at this proud daddy in Rudy with his baby daughter happily feasting on his masterpieces created in kitchen with his special recipes and imagine for yourselves what an immense enjoyment you can derive from cooking as a fun hobby with the whole family chipping in each and everyone’s help he/she can to make preparing a meal truly entertaining!

To those male colleagues who hardly spend time in the kitchen cooking or even detest it as a boring routine Cuisine & Culture implores you to give it a try as a “mission possible and enjoyable” and start with something simple which you like, though, picking a dish from a cookbook and prepare and put together the ingredients, all the while with your better half and kids cheering you on while looking forward to sampling your “masterpiece” and making you a proud daddy like Rudy!

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A Special Acknowledgement of Thanks from Cuisine & Culture

Cuisine & Culture wishes to express its heartfelt thanks to Kevin Wambura of the ITS team here at UNON in Nairobi and Yawtsong Lee, a veteran interpreter at UN headquarters, now retired, for their technical advice and assistance and is hereby extremely pleased to retain them as Technical Advisors to Cuisine & Culture.

Cuisine & Culture

Weihua Tang/Editor

United Nations Office at Nairobi