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"COOKS" is a plural of: cook. |
Date "COOKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cooks Athenæ'us affirms that cooks were the first kings of the earth. In the luxurious ages of ancient Greece Sicilian cooks were most esteemed, and received very high wages. Among them Trimalcio was very celebrated. It is said that he could cook the most common fish, and give it the flavour and look of the most highly esteemed. In the palmy days of Rome a chief cook had 800 a year. Antony gave the cook who arranged his banquet for Cleopatra the present of a city. Modern Cooks. CAREME. Called the "Regenerator of Cookery" (1784-1833). FRANCATELLI (Charles Elmé), who succeeded Ude at Crockford's. Afterwards he was appointed to the Royal household, and lastly to the Reform Club (1805-1876). SOYER (Alexis), who died 1858. His epitaph is Soyer tranquille. UDE. The most learned of modern cooks, author of Science de Gueule. It was Ude who said, "A cook must be born a cook, he cannot be made." Another of his sayings is this: "Music, dancing, fencing, painting, and mechanics possess professors under the age of twenty years, but pre-eminence in cookery can never be attained under thirty years of age." Ude was chef to Louis XIV., then to Lord Sefton, then to the Duke of York, then to Crockford's Club. He left Lord Sefton's because on one occasion one of the guests added pepper to his soup. VATEL. At a fête given by the great Condé to Louis XIV. at Cantilly the roti at the twenty-fifth table was wanting. Vatel being told of it exclaimed that he could not survive such a disgrace. Another messenger then announced that the lobsters for the turbot-sauce had not arrived, whereupon Vatel retired to his room and, leaning his sword against the wall, thrust himself through, and at the third attempt succeeded in killing himself (1671). WELTJE. Cook to George while Prince Regent. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cooking is the act of preparing food for consumption. The term is often used in the narrower sense of applying heat to chemically transform a food to change its flavor, texture, appearance, or nutritional properties. When humans mastered fire thousands of years ago, cooking became a widespread cultural feature.
Effects of cooking
Heating can sterilize the food (depending on temperature, cooking time, and technique used), in addition to softening the food by turning collagen into gelatin. 45 to 140°F (or the roughly equivalent range 5 to 60°C) is the "danger zone" in which bacteria thrive, and which must be avoided for safe handling of meat, poultry and dairy products. Refrigeration and freezing do not kill bacteria, but slow their growth.Living foods diet adherents advise against the use of heat in the preparation of food: they believe that temperatures above 106°F (41°C) destroy essential enzymes in the food, which they believe are necessary for proper digestion and nutrition.
Cooking Techniques
Some major hot cooking techniques:
- Baking
- Braising
- FlashBake
- Boiling
- Blanching
- Coddling
- Infusion
- Broiling
- Steaming
- Double steaming
- Poaching
- Simmering
- Pressure cooking
- Vacuum flask cooking
- Frying
- Deep frying
- Hot salt frying
- Hot sand frying
- Pan frying
- Pressure frying
- Sauteeing
- Stir frying
- Roasting
- Grilling
- Searing
- Barbecuing
- Smoking
- Microwaving (colloquially known as "nuking")
Other (cool) preparation techniques
- Brining
- Marinating
- Seasoning
- Pickling
- Drying
- Sprouting
- Grinding (e.g. sesame seeds to produce tahini), chopping, slicing finely, grating, etc..
See Also
Specific techniques and ingredients are often regional. See Cuisine for information about the many regional and ethnic food traditions. Please see food writing for some authors of books on cookery, food, and the history of food.
For recipes, see the list of recipes and the list of cocktails. Also see staple (cooking).
- Vessels for cooking include saucepans, frying pans and woks.
- Food and cooking hygiene
- Food preservation
- Cooking weights and measures (includes conversions and equivalences common in cooking)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cooking."
Synonym: COOKSSynonym: Chefs. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unskillfulness | Absence of rule, rule of thumb; bungling; Verb: failure; screw loose: too many cooks. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | She kisses like my mom cooks. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Lyrics | Your father's hip; he knows what cooks ("Yakety Yak"; performing artist: The Coasters) | |
Tongue Twisters | A cupcake cook in a cupcake cook's cap cooks cupcakes. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | As Good Cooks Go (1970) Too Many Cooks (1966) Cooks and Crooks (1942) Too Many Cooks (1931) Cooks and Crooks (1918) | |
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 | U.S. Army. Base Hospital, Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass. : Personnel- Mess Sergeants and Cooks. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | U.S. War of 1898 - Medical and Sanitary Affairs : Cooks of Major Crampton's fever camp near Santiago de Cuba. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | "Our Mess cooks": Three crewmen prepare to peel potatos, circa 1913. Photographed by Sargent. Credit: NAVY. |  | There is a tradition-- that cooks resent innovations in the kitchen. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Maybe it's a case of too many cooks. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Alexandria, Va. Cooks in the kitchen of Soldiers' Rest. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | U.S.S. Maine, berth deck cooks. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S.S. Brooklyn, berth deck cooks. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cooks drying "silverware" in logging camp near Effie, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lon Allen, former lumberjack, now a cut-over farmer, demonstrates how cooks used horn to call jacks to dinner. Near Iron River, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Cooks forest in fall" by Kevin Rohr Commentary: "Canoeing on the clarion river in fall." | "Old Arch" by Vi Xs Commentary: "The last remaining building of Captain Cooks house, Stewarts Park, UK." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Hector Hugh Munro | The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went. |
Owen Meredith | We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She was a nun as others are cooks. |
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Human Rights | Lithuania | In October the director of Vilnius maximum security prison said that 93 prisoners (out of 1,579) worked as cooks, plumbers, and electricians. (references) |
Haiti | Penitentiary authorities increased internal controls such as accounting systems; instituted better control over central and outlying food stocks; improved food transportation; and doubled the pay of cooks, which decreased theft. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Vietnam | While the Labor Law states that all enterprise-level and professional trade unions are affiliated with the VGCL, in practice hundreds of unaffiliated "labor associations" have been organized at many individual enterprises and in occupations such as those of taxi, motorcycle and cyclo drivers, cooks, and market porters. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BENEDICTINES, n. An order of monks otherwise known as black friars. She thought it a crow, but it turn out to be A monk of St. Benedict croaking a text. "Here's one of an order of cooks," said she -- "Black friars in this world, fried black in the next." "The Devil on Earth" (London, 1712) |
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| "COOKS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "COOKS" is used about 280 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 62.5% | 175 | 23,506 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 28.21% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.29% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Total | 100.00% | 280 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "COOKS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cooks | Last name | 4,000 | 3,424 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Cooks, MI |
Expression using "COOKS": screw loose: too many cooks. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "COOKS": over-cooks, pastry-cooks. | |
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| Language | Translations for "COOKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 厨夫 (cook). (various references) | |
Danish | Cooks'analspekulum (Cooks speculum), konditor-hudlidelse (professional skin disease of pastry cooks), klaebemiddelallergi (professional skin disease of pastry cooks). (various references) | |
Dutch | endeldarmspeculum van Cooks (Cooks speculum). (various references) | |
French | World Association of Cooks Societies (World association of cooks societies), W.A.C.S. (World association of cooks societies), SSC (Swiss Cooks Society), spéculum de Cooks (Cooks speculum), spéculum de Cook (Cooks speculum), Société suisse des cuisiniers (Swiss Cooks Society), maladie due à colle des emballages (professional skin disease of pastry cooks). (various references) | |
German | kocht (boils, seethes). (various references) | |
Greek | κάτοπτρο Cooks (Cooks speculum), όπου λαλούν πολλοί κόκοροι αργεί να ξημερώσει (too many cooks spoil the broth), ασκοειδής νόσος (professional skin disease of pastry cooks). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sok szakács elsózza a levest (too many cooks spoil the broth). (various references) | |
Italian | SSC (Swiss Cooks Society), speculo di Cooks (Cooks speculum), Società svizzera cuochi (Swiss Cooks Society). (various references) | |
Korean | 요리사 (cook). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ookscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | espéculo de Cooks (Cooks speculum). (various references) | |
Spanish | espéculo de Cook (Cooks speculum), enfermedad dérmica profesional de los pasteleros (professional skin disease of pastry cooks). (various references) | |
Swedish | kockar. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Samuel Chapter 8, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai taV qugateraV umwn lhmyetai eiV mureyouV kai eiV mageirissaV kai eiV pessousaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Filias quoque vestras faciet sibi unguentarias et focarias et panificas |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Forsothe youre douytres he shal make to him oynement makers, and fier makers, and clothmakers. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he will take your daughters to be confectioneries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers. |
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| Language | 1 Samuel Chapter 8, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Ug siya magakuha sa inyong mga anak nga babaye aron mahimong mga magbubuhat sa pahumot, ug mahimong mga magluluto, ug mahimong mga magbubuhat sa tinapay. |
| Croatian | Uzimat æe kralj vaše kæeri da mu prireðuju mirisne pomasti, da mu kuhaju i peku. |
| Danish | Eders Døtre skal han tage til at blande Salver, koge og bage. |
| Dutch | En uw dochteren zal hij nemen tot apothekeressen, en tot keukenmaagden, en tot baksters. |
| Finnish | Ja teidän tyttärenne hän ottaa voiteiden tekijöiksi, keittäjiksi ja leipojiksi. |
| French | Il prendra vos filles, pour en faire des parfumeuses, des cuisinières et des boulangères. |
| German | Eure Töchter aber wird er nehmen, daß sie Salbenbereiterinnen, Köchinnen und Bäckerinnen seien. |
| Haitian Creole | L'ap pran pitit fi nou yo pou fè odè, pou fè manje ak pou fè pen pou li. |
| Hungarian | Leányaitokat pedig elviszi kenõcskészítõknek, szakácsnéknak és sütõknek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Anak-anakmu yang perempuan akan disuruh membuat minyak wangi baginya dan bekerja sebagai tukang masaknya dan tukang rotinya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka anak-anakmu perempuan diambilnya kelak, dijadikannya tukang rempah-rempah dan juru masak dan tukang roti. |
| Italian | Prenderà anche le vostre figlie per farle sue profumiere e cuoche e fornaie. |
| Maori | Ka tangohia hoki e ia a koutou tamahine hei mahi keke, hei taka kai, hei tunu taro. |
| Norwegian | Eders døtre vil han ta og sette til å lage salver og til å koke og bake for ham. |
| Portuguese | Tomará as vossas filhas para perfumistas, cozinheiras e padeiras. |
| Rumanian | Va lua pe fetele voastre sq -i facq miresme, de mkncare wi pkne. |
| Russian | Й ДПЮЕТЕК ЧБЫЙИ ЧПЪШНЕФ, ЮФПВ ПОЙ УПУФБЧМСМЙ НБУФЙ, ЧБТЙМЙ ЛХЫБОШЕ Й РЕЛМЙ ИМЕВЩ; |
| Spanish | Tomará a vuestras hijas para que sean perfumadoras, cocineras y panaderas. |
| Swedish | Edra döttrar skall han taga till salvoberederskor, kokerskor och bagerskor. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COOKS": cookshack, cookshacks, cookshop, cookshops, cookstove, cookstoves. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "COOKS": miscooks, outcooks, overcooks, precooks, recooks. (additional references) | |
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"COOKS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coask, cocok, Cok, Colotka, cooke, cooki, Cookism, cooky, cooms, coook, coors, cosk, Covox, Cukcs, Cusk, dooks, Kokotsu, koo, koosk, Ocko, zooks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "COOKS" (pronounced kuh"ks) |
| 3 | -uh" k s | books, Brooks, chinooks, crooks, hooks, looks, nooks, rooks, schnooks, snooks. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: socko. | |
| Words within the letters "c-k-o-o-s" | |
-1 letter: cook, coos, sock, sook. | |
-2 letters: coo, cos, kos. | |
-3 letters: os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-k-o-o-s" | |
+1 letter: chooks, crooks, jockos. | |
+2 letters: cookers, cookeys, cookies, cuckoos, miscook, recooks, schnook. | |
+3 letters: bollocks, bonnocks, bookcase, boschbok, casebook, cashbook, chinooks, convokes, cookings, cookless, cookoffs, cookouts, cookshop, cooktops, coonskin, cowpokes, dornocks, gorcocks, hockshop, hommocks, lockouts, miscooks, oarlocks, oomiacks, outcooks, outrocks, pollocks, precooks, rockoons, rockrose, rowlocks, schnooks, sickroom, stockpot, stopcock, woolsack. | |
+4 letters: backrooms, backwoods, bookcases, bookracks, boondocks, bootjacks, bootlicks, boschboks, buckaroos, buckeroos, casebooks, cashbooks, chapbooks, cockapoos, cockatoos, cockboats, cockcrows, cockhorse, cocklofts, cockscomb, cocksfoot, codebooks, coldcocks, convokers, cookbooks, cookeries, cookhouse, cookshack, cookshops, cookstove, cookwares, coonskins, copybooks, corkwoods, coworkers, forelocks, foreshock, gooseneck, hockshops, jackaroos, jackboots, jackeroos, knockoffs, knockouts, lockboxes, lockdowns, lovelocks, miscooked, moorcocks, overcooks, overstock, rockroses, rockworks, roorbacks, rootstock, schoolkid, scrapbook, sickrooms, solonchak, stockpots, stockroom, stopcocks, woodcocks, woolpacks, woolsacks. | |
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