cook
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“On two occasions in November and December 2018, I brought water home from work, and my mother used that water to cook congee,” she wrote in the paper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
"There are areas in the city where it is much easier to get a takeaway meal than it is to get any other kind of food that you would cook at home."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
For our purposes, cook your soup until it’s essentially done.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
You may endure a period of time where you cannot put your own clothes, bathe, or even cook or feed yourself.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
As it turned out, the cook had once seen a lovely picture postcard of Budapest, and the beauty and blueness of the Danube River had left her curious about Hungarian cuisine ever since.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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She says she’s now mom’s full-time caregiver: She cooks, manages her medications, drives her to appointments and handles her finances and insurance paperwork.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
A menu, she argued, should not require cooks to spend 18 hours peeling pine nuts simply because the chef wants to demonstrate technical skill.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Japanese cooks are working with a brand-new selection of seafood, since El Nino has altered ocean migratory routes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Now she buys staples, and while she tries to stick to a weekly meal plan she mostly cooks what she is feeling.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
“Please, ma’am,” said Alyce, who had learned that ma’ams and sirs served her well even with cooks and stableboys when asking favors.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
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