Dishing Up 02: "Tu va prepare pour tulmonde?"
"You will prepare for everyone..."
I’m only supposing it was a question, in the way the statement lingered in the compact and unoccupied kitchen air. "You will prepare for everyone”, when you translate it to English it sounds less like a question, that’s probably because beneath the lingering of the words, both of us, him man of this house and me woman, niece to his fiancé, know that there’s an implication with my presence as a woman here.
I prepared food for us all, reluctant to do so, I burnt one of the dishes, scrambled another, left another unspiced and unsalted, having only one succeed through my chopping, spicing and frying.
Dishing up : one good dish, another decent, the third passable, one barely edible, one boy, one man and two women. Precedent has taught me to give serve first the male.