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[kook] / kʊk /




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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

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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