Jeanine was a famous chef who worked in one of the biggest restaurants in her hometown of Cleveland. Jeanine was invited to give a lecture at one of the culinary schools near her home. The students were excited and flocked in to class to hear the famous chef speak. The class was packed with students and there was standing room only.

Jeanine walked in wearing a crisp white chef uniform and her long apron. She lectured for over an hour on the history of cooking, and then decided to take the students through a practical session.

She was explaining how women used to collect eggs from the henhouse early in the morning; being too dark, they carried a candle for light. Unfortunately, Jeanine got a little carried away with enthusiasm, and decided to demonstrate. She lit a candle and showed the students how ladies would pick the eggs from under the hens and place it in their aprons.

While she demonstrated, most of the students had their heads buried in the notes they were furiously scribbling. As Jeanine enacted putting the egg in her pocket while holding the candle, she managed to light the apron on fire. Even before she had realized it, she was in flames and one student yelled “Fire!”

A girl who was sitting close to the stage ran up, grabbed the fire extinguisher, and emptied the whole thing on Jeanine. Crisis averted, the students were roaring with laughter. Being a shy person in the first place, Jeanine was humiliated, and quickly wrapped up the class. She always kept that funny apron to remind her to never again agree to give a lecture or a speech.

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Patty had several aprons. Every waking hour the woman would sport an apron. Patty was a housewife and any time you walked into her house, you would find her in her kitchen. A beautiful kitchen indeed, and it had the aroma of good food always. You could drop in to Patty’s house any time and still expect to be fed. She took delight in feeding anyone who came home. Patty was a great host, someone you could idolize when it comes to hospitality.

Patty had several aprons. In fact she had one for every occasion: funny aprons, vintage aprons, hostess aprons, and holiday aprons. Indeed she was a bit old fashioned; she had a couple of fancy aprons that she only sported on Sundays.

Patty’s aprons were more than just aprons. She used them to wipe the sweat of off her brow, the blood off her kids’ skinned knees, and even to wipe their runny noses. Often she filled the pockets with supplies for cleaning, shooed away flies with it, and sometimes wiped away her own tears when missing her husband, who was called out of the country because he was in the army.

When her friends would ask her why she was never seen without an apron, Patty would tell them, “When I put my apron on, I mean business. My kids and my husband know that I’m busy doing something I love, and which they know they will enjoy in just a few minutes. My family gives me big warm smiles the minute I have my apron on.”

It has been five years now since Patty passed away, and though her children are all grown, they never forgot their mom and her aprons. When Patty died and her husband was going through her things, he recovered over 100 aprons. He couldn’t help but remember all their fond memories together when he saw those aprons. Every apron of Patty’s had a fond story to tell.

When Patty’s husband asked his daughters what they would like from their mom’s stuff, all of them said in unison “aprons.” The girls decided they would each take half of Patty’s apron collection.  Laura wears hers whenever she cooks, and Michelle took hers and made them into a quilt which is on display in her home.  Both of the girls remember their mom with fondness every time they see those old aprons.

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I don’t know about you but I’ve always wondered why chefs needed those really long aprons. I know they are in the kitchen all the time, but aren’t they supposed to be experts? I figured they would know how to be really clean in the kitchen after all that practice. I posed the question to the chef at my favorite French restaurant, and she sure answered my question.

The chef, whose name is Marie-Claire, is simply amazing. She whips up everything from crepes to duck confit in almost no time and every single dish is absolutely delicious. She has even written several French cook books. When I asked her why chefs need aprons, she told me to come back at 3:00 the next day, and she sat with me in the dining room and told me this story.

One day when Marie-Claire was busy in the kitchen, doing her job and wearing her apron as always, she tripped on the floor mat and spilled boiling water all down her legs. Fortunately, she was wearing her heavy chef’s pants, chef’s coat, and apron, but even so her skin started burning. Unable to bear the pain, she stripped off her pants and was standing their her underwear. As luck would have it, in came one of the bus boys dropping off some dirty dishes. He was mortified to see the head chef in her underpants. Chef Marie-Claire quickly grabbed for a couple of aprons she had hanging on the rack. She tied one around the front and one around the back to cover herself.

The restaurant was too busy for her to go home and get a new pair of pants, and it was a few hours before hers dried out. She just wore those two funny aprons tied around her waist while working, and wouldn’t you know it, those bus boys seemed to work really hard that day. They kept coming to the kitchen every five minutes! Marie-Claire is pretty sure that the bus boys were only coming to try and catch a glimpse of her underpants underneath those tied-on aprons. 

So according to my chef friend, aprons are good for protecting you from the blood of the meats and everything that splashes on you while you are cooking. But they are also extremely useful in case of strange emergencies! Marie-Claire suggests keeping at least two aprons handy in your kitchen.

So girls and boys listen up, whether you’re a chef or not, aprons are important. They can save you some very embarrassing moments indeed! Not the most practical item to use a skirt, but it could very well suffice as a bare necessity on that rare occasion.

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I grew up in a home where unlike other homes, the meals were made by my Dad. My mom was a little scatterbrained, and always seemed to get distracted and burn the roast. She mainly stuck with the cleaning while Dad did the cooking. I think the fact that I adored my dad and was always with him, made me love cooking. I would sit for hours and watch him bake a pie or cook a curry. He was good at anything he made. Saturday was my day to learn how to cook with Dad, ever since I was 13. I would plop myself down at the kitchen table and take notes.

The first lesson my Dad ever taught me in cooking was to wear an apron. I wasn’t a great listener and so I didn’t pay heed to his most important instruction. No matter how much he would remind me, I never wore one when he wasn’t looking. One Saturday when I was about 15 years old, I decided to cook my dad a meal. I was baking a cake and like I said, I wasn’t a good listener nor was I good at following the rules. So I followed most of the recipe, but I decided to add in a little extra sugar. I put the cake in the oven, but it wouldn’t rise, so I tried to repair the damage by taking it out and mixing in some more eggs, flour, and cocoa powder. I didn’t even take the batter out of the cake pan, and just stuck the hand mixer right in the shallow pan. The batter sprayed everywhere, and I ended up with a mixture of eggs, flour, and cocoa all over my face, in my hair, and on my clothes. Like most girls, I screamed and burst into tears. My Dad heard me and came running in to the kitchen. He couldn’t help but laugh, since I was quite the sight. Brown faced with icky egg yolk all over me! My Dad made the cake. The next week at cooking class, dad gifted me with a set of four funny aprons, one for each Saturday in the month. 

Now, many moons later, I am a proud mother of three and an owner of a small café here in my hometown. I still have the four aprons my dad gave me. They are worn out and old, and I keep them tucked away in a trunk. Daddy passed away a few weeks ago and it made me long for those old aprons.  I decided I didn’t want to have them tucked away, not anymore. I got all four of them framed, and they are now hanging on my café wall.

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