by Greg Mayer
In today’s New York Times, there is a paean to a cast iron skillet with which Jocelyn Cooper, a music industry executive, prepares her grandmother’s traditional dishes. While we may marvel at the breadth of the Times‘ coverage that gives us a profile of a frying pan, what brings this to our attention is that in the accompanying, uncaptioned, photo, Ms. Cooper is joined in a pose exactly parallel to hers by her equally traditional tabby, who apparently has a similar, but appropriately downsized, skillet of its own.
A caption in the online version identifies the cat as Jo Jo Cooper.
Heh, the caption reads like the cat works for the NYT and is named Dina. 🙂
My cat would have his own frying pan if he asked for it, but he will eat nothing but a specific dry cat food. Since it is both economical and healthy, he gets what he wants, whenever he asks.
Two consecutive posts raising Dibbler-san’s fourth most famous culinary suggestion (after “I wouldn’t eat that if I were you,” and the joint leaders of “Sossage-inna-bun!” and “Rat-onna-stick!”)
The large skillet is most impressive. I like the double handle.
“A cooking cat” is certainly a much more pleasant headline than “Cooking a cat.”