Don’t
be embarrassed. The kitchen can be a mysterious place and just
as dangerous as a chemistry lab. On the plus side, you are
unlikely to explode. But you can burn yourself, cut yourself,
even poison yourself if you’re not paying attention. Weapons
of death are within your grasp.
There’s
a famous short story by Roald Dahl, who wrote “Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory,” about a woman who bops her husband over the
head with a frozen leg of lamb. She then destroys the murder
weapon by cooking it and serving it to the policemen investigating
the death.
