cook
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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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