“The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went.”
Saki (1870–1916) British writer
"Reginald on Besetting Sins"
Reginald (1904)
“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.”
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