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cook

[kook] / kʊk /




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In fact, I think becoming a more intuitive cook often involves this kind of looking inward.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2026

Jess Pryles, a live-fire cook and the author of “Prime Cuts,” offered her own lyrical description: “Wagyu gives a buttery richness and so easily melts over your tongue.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

For the judges, hours spent watching contestants cook also reveal something beyond culinary ability.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

If he was sitting next to me on a plane and asking for single-parenting advice, I’d tell him to find someone to teach him how to cook.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

I tucked my hands into the sleeves of my robes and wandered among the tents, the animal drivers, and the fire pit, where a cook tended a thin cauldron of lentils and greens.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Many of them had saved money while toiling as farmworkers, cooks, custodians and construction workers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

In Key West, Bobby Kuchinsky, general manager of Half Shell Raw Bar, terminated six of his employees, including prep cooks and bussers, who had TPS protections.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

He still cooks dinner for our family every night at our home in Highland Park.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Gruel notes that home cooks can use another kind of fish, even canned fish — useful, flexible advice that is also so broad as to become generic.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

My mom knew one of the cooks, and he asked the manager if we could park there for just one night.

From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate




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