New Yorkers cook? Who knew?

I mean, there’s barely room in a NYC apartment kitchen to open a tin of cocktail peanuts

Vegetarian landlord won’t let tenants rent his apartments if they cook animal flesh

Hey — it’s his property, and he lives above the two apartments in question; he doesn’t want to smell frying fish, and who can blame him? Nancy and I once rented our downstairs elderly conversion apartment to a German woman who was a nice enough lady, but she shared her countrymen’s affinity for cabbage; we weren’t going to kick her out for that, especially because she really needed a place to stay, but we weren’t sorry when, after several years, she decided to go live with her daughter back in the old country.

But back to my original question: do New York apartment dwellers actually cook in? I’d never heard that.