I Am Woman

March, 1995

I've been cooking. And people I know are flabbergasted."You're our own little Martha Stewart," says Lynne Ann."It's scary," says Cleo. "You're turning into a real baleboosteh." This is a Yiddish word that means career housewife, and it is obviously the origin for the word ball-buster.They're teasing me so they can watch me squirm and deny my incredible chicken soup prowess. They know the last thing I want to do is tip the balance.I already have some feminine attribu...