most households in gurgaon have fulltime cooks where is the time to enter the kitchen when youre juggling family and work ask the ladies to imagine a life without their cooks and be prepared to get the stink eye for even coming up with such a horrible idea because for them husbands who cook dont exist and without a cook the responsibility of preparing meals automatically falls on their shoulders but while most women live under this assumption there are husbands in gurgaon whove happily taken over the kitchen while their wives lounge or take care of other things jealous already wait till you read what these privileged wives and their hardtofind husbands have to sayfood enhances my relationship with my wife sankalpa bhattachariya who works with accenture says im the one who does all the cooking we do have a cook but i enjoy cooking and i cook exotic stuff chicken yakhni kerala chicken curry pan fried fish caramelized prawns mincemeat gol gappa pasta mutton sukha fry my family waits eagerly to taste what i cook food enhances my relationship with my wife i dont care if she cooks or not because its not a battle most of my friends are impressed especially because these arent your average dishes plus some of the best chefs in the world and in india are men sankalpas wife charu adds i never enjoyed cooking and its one of those things i feel i was not meant to do i enter the kitchen only when i have to grab a bite the closest i come to cooking food is clicking pictures of my husband while he makes delicious things for us and then i post them online i feel fortunate that i have a husband who enjoys cookingi mess things up when i try to assist my husband ravi malhotra senior software architect at a semiconductor company says i am very picky when it comes to food so cooking on my own lets me prepare what i want the way i want it cooking relaxes me after a stressful day at work though i can prepare traditional meals like roti daal and subzi i am more fond of italian continental chinese and mughlai cuisines i have cooked goan french texmex and south indian as well i love to experiment and keep cooking new stuff my father also used to help my mother in the kitchen and loved to cook nonveg food on sundays when my sister and i were barely 10 years old we were encouraged to cook and we would regularly prepare tea bake cakes and make breakfast the only downside is that my friends complain that ive gotten too involved in cooking and hardly socialize but my wife is more than happy to do that bit and is far better at it too ravis wife charu who is a corporate communications manager at a mobile services company adds my father was extremely protective of me and always kept me