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cook

[kook] / kʊk /




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If you know someone isn’t a great cook, don’t expect them to pick up a spatula come breakfast time.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Each morning the nuns, some of them in their 90s, cook breakfast for the house–a variety of pancakes, eggs, sausage, fruits and juice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

HTA had initially employed Hillary Dawa as a cook to be stationed at Camp 2, but ended up using him as a substitute for a guide who "fell sick at Base Camp", the company said.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Using $25,000 he had saved as a cook, he opened Galvez Fashion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

He later traveled with Washington to Philadelphia to be the chief cook in the president’s house.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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