Daviot Kelly, Staff Reporter
No matter how attractively manicured, long nails scream, 'no kitchen duties' for some. - Norman Grindley/ Deputy Chief Photographer
While not in total agreement with the saying that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, I will say it does help in the courtship process!
Men love women who can cook! And, we don't mean corned beef and bread, or canned sausage and crackers! We are talking callaloo and salted codfish with dumpling, yam and banana. Rice and peas with barbecued chicken and tossed salad. You get the point! In producing these masterpieces, use of the hands is essential and long fingernails, depending on your point of view, don't make sense!
Grip knife
"I've seen women who can't even hold a baby properly because of the long nails. How dem going to grip knife properly and all dem tings?" asked Geoffrey Munch. Men judge women's cooking ability even without having tasted anything.
"Watch dem nails deh. She nuh cook or do housework," I heard two guys say about a woman who was strolling by. But women who have been known to keep their nails the longer side of normal firmly disagree that they can't handle themselves in the kitchen.
"That is so not true! I wore long nails for more than two years and I was still able to cook any kind of food. It was a bit challenging to make dumplings with a spoon but it was still edible," asserted Pamela Goodrice.
Health-wise, there is no evidence which seems to suggest there is anything unhygienic about women with long fingernails cooking. The major health risks in
the kitchen revolve around.
