Ed Solomon has a hate-hate relationship with the kitchen. But he long ago came to the realization that he has to eat. So the 90-year-old Laguna Woods resident, who has lived alone for the past decade, decided to share his rudimentary cooking skills with the wider world in a book titled “Cooking at 90: When You Hate the Kitchen.
” After a bout of bad health last year that included a six-month hospital stay, Solomon had two helpers prepare his meals after he came home to recuperate. “As I got stronger, I became ambitious and wanted to prepare my own meals,” he said in a recent interview at his home. In the past, he’d always had a mother or a wife to cook for him.
Cooking “just never interested me and, even though I tried to like the kitchen, it just seemed a messy job and too much trouble,” he said. Laguna Woods resident Ed Solomon, 90, has written and published a cookbook titled ““Cooking at 90: When You Hate the Kitchen.”(Photo by Mark Rabinowitch — Contributing Photographer) Laguna Woods resident Ed Solomon, 90, takes time out from cooking at his home in the Village.
He has written and published a cookbook titled “Cooking at 90: When You Hate the Kitchen.”(Photo by Mark Rabinowitch — Contributing Photographer) Laguna Woods resident Ed Solomon, 90, has written and published a cookbook titled “Cooking at 90: When You Hate the Kitchen.” The tongue-in-cheek book offers easy recipes that might tempt even the most ardent noncook to give it try.
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