Learn to Love (at) your Cooking Classes

You're a single guy. You have time on your hands. And you're a rotten cook. Why not kill three birds with one stone and take some cooking classes?

Attending cooking classes might not sound like the most masculine way to spend one or two evenings a week. But think about it. Who are the other students most likely to be? Right. Ladies. In fact, statistics suggest that you can expect a ratio of around twenty women to one man. And there's a good chance that a good deal of them are going to be single. Mothers don't have time to go to cooking classes.

You don't have to be Don Juan to work out that those are pretty good odds.

And the advantages of cooking classes don't stop there. As (probably) the only man in a room full of women, you'll be on their territory: the perfect place to act helpless, milk the situatioin for comedy and get plenty of sympathetic attention.

Cooking classes last for weeks. That's plenty of time to forge meaningful friendships. This is not like trying to meet single women at parties or bars. This is not like going out on blind dates arranged by friends. And it's not Internet dating. This is a much more civilised way of meeting people and enjoying their company.

The final advantage is the cooking classes themselves. You're more than likely to discover some latent talent for cooking. And you will probably learn to enjoy it too. That's going to raise your self-esteem. And the ability to cook is always going to make you stand out from the crowd in the eyes of most women.

So instead of music, let cooking be the food of love. And perhaps on your first real date, you'll be able to try out one of the recipes you picked up in one of your cooking classes.