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• Occasionally they try and tell me the cook is Thai, but when I get the food, it is not Thai food but a greasy Chinese / Vietnamese concoction. —  Westword | Complete Issue
• That being said, the things that I yearn for as a cook are always the most simply prepared, market driven dishes. —  ruhlman.com
• For since neither she nor the cook was acquainted with Mr. John Bellingham, she had remained the whole time either in the kitchen, which commanded a view of the front gate, or in the dining-room, which opened into the hall opposite the study door. —  The Eye of Osiris
• Then, turning to one that sate next to him, he said very gravely, that he hoped, as the cook was a woman of genius, he should, by this manner of arguing, be able, in about a year's time, to convince her she had better send up the meat too little than too much done: at the same time he charged the men-servants, that whenever they thought the meat was ready, to take it up, spit and all, and bring it up by force, promising to assist them in case the cook resisted. —  Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
• He apologised for not inviting us to dine during these depressing days, but said he could not, as his cook was a Lucretia di Borgia. —  A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium

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