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  • noun Plural form of noncook.

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Examples

  • "We watch all these cooking shows, but we've become a nation of food-obsessed noncooks."

    Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution Ellen Kanner 2010

  • "We watch all these cooking shows, but we've become a nation of food-obsessed noncooks."

    Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution Ellen Kanner 2010

  • "We watch all these cooking shows, but we've become a nation of food-obsessed noncooks."

    Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution Ellen Kanner 2010

  • "We watch all these cooking shows, but we've become a nation of food-obsessed noncooks."

    Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution Ellen Kanner 2010

  • "We watch all these cooking shows, but we've become a nation of food-obsessed noncooks."

    Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution Ellen Kanner 2010

  • Today there seem to be as many noncooks reading cookbooks as there are cooks doing so -

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • Even noncooks may spend hours watching food shows on television, or devouring chef's memoirs and "foodie" mysteries as if they were, well ... popcorn.

    unknown title 2009

  • There are kitchen gurus tailored to every cook and plenty of noncooks, too, from the lovable scamp who stirs up an interesting stew of maternal and carnal impulses (Jamie Oliver) to the ethnic maven who serves as a bush guide to the armchair traveler (Marcella Hazan, Madhur Jaffrey) to the improbably slender knockout (Padma Lakshmi, Giada De Laurentiis) to the haute-bourgeois amateur (Ina Garten) to the perky girl next door (Rachael Ray).

    A Recipe for Escapism 2009

  • Lately, we two noncooks had taken to collaborating a few times a week in the kitchen; I attributed it to the fact that I had more time and energy since I’d quit the foundation, but he said we were just sick of eating out.

    Confession Nancy Pickard 1994

  • Lately, we two noncooks had taken to collaborating a few times a week in the kitchen; I attributed it to the fact that I had more time and energy since I’d quit the foundation, but he said we were just sick of eating out.

    Confession Nancy Pickard 1994

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