After carefully bandaging Winter Sullivan's hand, Vera Xavier barred her from the kitchen. Vera had already figured out that her birth mother truly had no talent for cooking.
Worried Vera might get tired, Nathaniel Nathan stepped up to help in the kitchen, while Sheldon Caldwell sat and kept Winter Sullivan company.
Watching the two of them bustling about in the kitchen, Winter Sullivan felt a wave of emotion. When she was younger, she had also wanted to learn to cook well for her family. But later, she and Julian Caldwell were so swamped with work that they were lucky to eat a meal at home even once a month.
Eventually, they hired a housekeeper who was an excellent cook, so she found herself cooking even less.
As a result, any desire she'd had to cook had faded, and to this day, her culinary skills were still nothing to write home about.
