For example, the word chief ( meaning the leader of any group ) comes from the Middle French chef (" head "), and its modern pronunciation preserves the Middle French consonant sound ; the word chef ( the leader of the cooks ) was borrowed from the same source centuries later, by which time the consonant had changed to a " sh "- sound in French.

She drives away in a tearful huff, and Alvin, who had started to run short of food, cooks and eats the deer, then mounts the antlers above the rear doorway of his trailer as a tribute to the deer and the human sustenance it had provided.

In 1244, after the confederacy had failed and Hugh had made peace with King Louis, two royal cooks were arrested for attempting to poison the King ; upon questioning they confessed to having been in Isabella's pay.

For others, who followed the " cooking as a social act " trend, the open kitchen had the advantage that they could be with their guests while cooking, and for the " creative cooks " it might even become a stage for their cooking performance.

Though Dudley did not " delight in banquets ", he had a peculiar taste for exotic fruits and salads — and French cooks.

By the 1660s, cookery had progressed to an art form and good cooks were in demand.

There were four of us, and we always found all the choice bits the cooks had hidden away.

Chili cooks had beauty queens.

Oatmeal cooks had Ms.

After an award is published, there is a period ( typically around three months ) in which individuals may claim honoured problems are anticipated ( that is, that an identical problem, or nearly so, had been published at an earlier date ) or unsound ( i. e., that a problem has cooks or no solution ).

This made sense as cooks simply had to think about making enough onigiri and did not have to concern themselves with serving.

She had the most beautiful headboards, best tapestry, best linen and covers, best dishes, ring goods and jewels, best cooks and best everything.

By the seventh century AD, cooks of the Persian empire had learnt from their forebears the secrets of lightening and enriching bread-based mixtures with eggs, butter, and cream, and sweetening them with fruit and honey.

In return for his support, Ada gave Alexander gifts, and even sent him some of the best cooks in Asia Minor, realizing that Alexander had a sweet tooth.

As commandos were expected to be fighting troops, they had no administrative personnel, such as clerks and cooks for example.

Historian Jerah Johnson notes: “ Because most African slaves brought to Louisiana were males, great numbers married Indian women, whom the French colonials had early enslaved as food growers, cooks, bedfellows, and translators.

An initial report by The Times identified six casualties, including four wounded soldiers and two civilian cooks, and suggested officials believed losses would have been higher had the bomb exploded while hundreds of soldiers watched a film in the canteen.

Because cuneiform was very complex and only scribes who had studied for years could read it, it is unlikely that the tablets were meant for everyday cooks or chefs.

This had long been followed in the United Kingdom for some high-ranking household staff, such as housekeepers, cooks, and nannies, who were called Mrs. as a mark of respect regardless of marital status.

* Lisa's incredibly bad cooking, due mostly to her having had maids, cooks and other domestic help for most of her life.

The second group were those that supplied prepared foods ; bakers, pastry cooks, saucemakers, poulterers, and caterers.

The track laying was divided up into various parts: one gang laid rails on the ties, drove the spikes, and bolted the splice bars ; at the same time, another gang distributed telegraph poles and wire along the grade, while the cooks prepared dinner and the clerks busied themselves with accounts, records, using telegraph wire to tap for more materials and supplies.

In addition to being added to dishes during the cooking process, fish sauce is also used as a base for a dipping condiment that is prepared in many different ways by cooks in each country mentioned for fish, shrimp, pork, and chicken.

Food was prepared by cooks drawn from the prison ranks.

It is a popular menu choice of cooks preparing food for a large number of people, because it is easily made in large quantities, it can be prepared in advance and refrigerated until needed, and requires inexpensive ingredients.

The chickens are placed on skewers which are staked into the ground in close proximity to the fire, so that the radiant heat slowly cooks the prepared chickens.

But at home he creates a terrible fuss, moving from the bedroom Nanny has prepared for him to one with a strong lock and access to the fire escape, refusing to eat anything Nanny cooks and adamant that Nanny shall not come near him.

In the Charleston area, some cooks thought that certain dishes, such as okra soup, could not be prepared properly without a Catawba pot for slow, steady cooking.

The fame of the Four Days Marches grew during the 1930s, thanks to the efforts of the Koloniale Reserve ( Colonial Reserve ) in Nijmegen, and in particular the Indonesian ‘ nasi ’ meal prepared by their cooks.

Chefs and cooks sometimes use the term " shoemaker " as an insult to others who have prepared sub-standard food, possibly by overcooking, implying that the chef in question has made his or her food as tough as shoe leather or hard leather shoe soles, and thus may be in the wrong profession.

Seaman cooks, often members of the mess, prepared the meals and took them, in a tin canteen, to the galley to be cooked by the ship's cooks.

Toasted ravioli can be stored pre-made and frozen which allows it to be easily prepared by fry cooks or bar staff without requiring much special skill or training.

Food is prepared in view of diners in open cooking areas which allows for interaction between chefs, cooks, and patrons.

Though the food is mostly prepared by the cooks of the temple kitchens, the process is now being outsourced to several independent shopkeepers & food-caterers due to the increasing number of offerings everyday.

While some recipes call for a smooth prepared tomato sauce, some cooks prefer to add crushed or diced tomatoes along with tomato paste for a chunkier, more intensely flavored dish.

Many Mexican home cooks make their own instead of purchasing it ; when made for the evening meal, it is often prepared in early afternoon and left to drain until evening.

They prepared variations on traditional Cantonese food that were well received by local patrons and they were prized as cooks in wealthier households.

It can be prepared using a baked or refrigerated method, with the latter being the more popular, particularly among home cooks.

This system meant that instead of one person preparing a dish on one's own, now multiple cooks would prepare the different components for the dish.

Suspicious of the amount in their pot, suspecting more of their friends will be arriving, he remarks " there's an awful lot of sofkey ", to which one of the men replies " sofkey always cooks up bigger than you think ".

In 1946 Gates and Sons Bar-B-Q was opened by one of Perry's cooks.

Two of the figurines are cooks, and another one is a farmer.

The cooks, one for every 12 prisoners, were paid a small allowance by the British government.

Among his changes were fixes to the daily diet of the troops, camp sanitary changes, improvements and accountability of the quartermaster system, addition of and monitoring of company cooks, several hospital reforms, and an improved furlough system ( one man per company by turn, 10 days each ).

Besides the camel-pullers the caravan would also include a xiansheng ( 先生, literally, " Sir ", " Mister ") ( typically, an older man with a long experience as a camel-puller, now playing the role of a general manager ), one or two cooks, and the caravan master, whose authority over the caravan and its people was as absolute as that of a captain on a ship.

Cooked on a rangetop, one frying method involves pouring a small amount of liquid batter made with boiling water and self-rising cornmeal ( cornmeal with soda or some other chemical leavener added ) into a skillet of hot oil, and allowing the crust to turn golden and crunchy while the center of the batter cooks into a crumbly, mushy bread.

Camp cooks making pancakes in a moderate-size pan often simplify their work and speed up their service by pouring enough batter to make one large, moderate-thickness pancake that takes up the entire pan and then cutting the final product with the spatula to serve individual portions.

Outnumbered five to one, with its infantry rifles companies surrounded for most of the time, clerks, cooks, mechanics, drivers and others manned the 10. 000 yard final defensive line.

It may simply be an adaption of " Shepherd's Pie ", but one possible explanation for the ' Chinese ' reference is that it was introduced to Canadian railway workers by Chinese cooks during the building of the North American railroads in the late 19th century.

The easiest ( if somewhat laborious ) way is simply to make them by hand ; many cooks use specialized " pelmeni makers ", which are essentially molds that resemble muffin pans or ravioli molds, allowing one to quickly make a few dozen pelmeni out of two sheets of dough and a quantity of ground meat.

Publishers Weekly reviewed it as "... The author's imagination runs wild as he conjures some striking imagery (" Dark threads of energy moved through her veins and leaped from her fingertips " says one of the three women in the opening scene ) and cooks up a surreal stew of character portraits ( rendered in bold colors and brushwork, they resemble some of Van Gogh's later work ).

According to McDonald all the waitresses were members of the IWW, and one of the cooks was a woman who had served a year in a Finnish prison for her activities on behalf of the Reds during the Finnish Revolution of 1918.

Aurangzeb ’ s army on the move included camels bearing treasure, one hundred loaded with gold, two hundred with silver ; the emperor ’ s hunting establishment, with hawks and cheetahs ; official records, on eighty camels, thirty elephants and twenty carts, these could never be parted from the emperor ; a hundred camels carried water and kitchen utensils ; fifty milch-cows, a hundred cooks, each a specialist in a dish ; fifty camels and a hundred carts carried the emperor ’ s and his ladies wardrobe ; thirty elephants carried the women ’ s jewellery and presents for successful commanders.

They go to his restaurant, where he cooks for Flor and they enjoy the " conversation of their lives ," feeling love for one another.

At any rate, Philotas, the physician of Amphissa, used to tell my grandfather, Lamprias, that he was in Alexandria at the time, studying his profession, and that having got well acquainted with one of the royal cooks, he was easily persuaded by him ( young man that he was ) to take a view of the extravagant preparations for a royal supper.

Some communities hold cook-offs during festivals, where cooks compete against one another for prize money.

Born as Madeleine Angela Clinton-Baddeley in London in 1904 into a wealthy family, she would later base the character of Mrs. Bridges on one of the cooks her family employed.

# Episode 3: " Chinatown Chat "-This lesson will address some of the issues one must face to successfully grease your noodle without disturbing the other cooks in the kitchen.

Byeon Jin-sub ( hangul: 변진섭 ), a popular male singer in the late 1980s, sang a song titled " Wishes " ( hangul: 희망사항 ) in which he stated that the singer's ideal girlfriend would be one who cooks good kimchi bokkeumbap.

At least one restaurant in San Francisco, the eponymous Cioppino's, describes an apocryphal story in which the name derived from the heavily Italian-accented cry of the wharf cooks for the fishermen to " chip in " some of their catch to the collective soup pot.