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Encyclopedia > Cook (profession)

A cook is a person that prepares food for consumption.


A cook is sometimes referred to as a chef, although within the professional kitchen, the terms are not exchangable. The executive chef or sous chef is generally never referred to as a "cook". Cooks in training in Paris Chef is a term commonly used to refer to an individual who cooks professionally. ...


Professional Usage

The term cook within a restaurant kitchen usually refers to person with little to no creative influence on a menu and little to no command over others within the kitchen. These are usually all members of a restaurant kitchen that are underneath the sous chef in the brigade de cuisine. Other establishments may have a relatively constant menu, often only having people that can prepare food fast and consistantly, having little need for a executive chef or sous chef. The kitchens in these particular restaurants would thus be entirely run by cooks. An example would be a short order cook, which is a cook who prepares fast, easily-assembled meals to order, often working in a diner or cafe. Cooks in training in Paris Chef is a term commonly used to refer to an individual who cooks professionally. ... Brigade de cuisine is the term used to describe the hierarchy of the apprentice system in a professional kitchen. ... A diner in Freehold Borough, New Jersey This article is about a type of restaurant. ... A Street Cafe, Jerusalem, Henry Fenn (1838- ): steel engraving in Picturesque Palestine, ca 1875 A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or caf shares some of the characteristics of a bar, and some of the characteristics of a restaurant. ...


Domestic Usage

When used of residential staff the word cook may refer to the head of the kitchen in a great house or to a cook-housekeeper, responsible for cleaning as well. See cook (servant). The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... A great house is a large and stately residence; the term encompasses different styles of dwelling in different countries. ... A housekeeper is an individual responsible for the cleaning and maintenance of the interior of a residence. ... A cook is a household staff member responsible for food preparation. ...


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(1856?-1904) Miss Cook was dismissed from a teaching job at age sixteen, then worked with several different professional spirit mediums who were later exposed as frauds, as she herself was when she took up the profession.
      Cook's spirit guide was known as Katie King (a character who was to reemerge a generation later as a guide to medium Eusapia Palladino), and Cook was able to produce full-size, full-form materializations of this character, who, strangely enough, in all photographs appears to be an exact double for Cook.
Cook actually failed to satisfy the controls, and yet her supporters glossed over major problems and ignored quite positive evidence of trickery.
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