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On Cook & Cooking
Cook
can be many a
thing. Cook can be a
name, such as in Captain James Cook
(1728 -79), British navigator and explorer.
He went on expeditions to S.
Pacific, Australia and New Zealand. There are many places in that part of
the world named after him.
Cook
Strait, a strait between
N. and S. islands in New Zealand, is one such place, another being Mount Cook,
mountain in New Zealand,
on South Island ( 12,349 feet = approx 4,200 m).
Now
cooking as most of us know it, has to do with preparing food by the action
of heat,
or to subject anything to the action of heat.
This should be a
definition which is true in most instances.
Cooking
is also found in the word
cooking-range,
meaning stove on which you cook.
Cook
can be the one who prepares the meals,
whose occupation it is to cook and
prepare food for the table.
However, the French word "chef"
(=male head cook)
is used quite frequently,
especially so in the U.S.
Note
that the Swedish word "chef" has absolutely nothing to do with
the English "chef"
and don't confuse it with the mechanical and
nautical term "chief".
The Swedish word "chef" is more closely related to
"chief"
as in the
North American
Indian Chief.
Cook
can also be found in the word cook-house
which is a nautical term referring to the ship's galley.
A cook-shop, originally cook's shop, is
an older expression meaning an eating-house.
This almost sounds like Swenglish, which it is not.
It's
truly British. The verb cook means to act as cook,
to prepare food,
to make fit for eating by application of heat,
as by
boiling, baking, roasting, broiling etc.
When
a new restaurant is built, one can sometimes see ads,
saying things like
"We've cooked up a new location"
meaning they've built
and designed a new place,
including e.g. an "All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Court"
where you help
yourself.
Doesn't this make you hungry ?
"Some
falsified printed accounts, artfully cooked
up." (by
Smollett)
"We
cooked up a
bill for that purpose." (by
Chesterfield)
You
hear both 'cook' and
'cooking'
quite frequently in old blues and love songs,
and not necessarily having to do with food at
all.
The
fact is of course, as food and food-related words are all something positive, favorable, and nice to us,
so are
love, food and language basically.
like having lunch
together.
A
cooker is a
stove.
Cooker is primarily used in Great Britain,
including of course some of the
old colonies.
A
cooker can also mean a vessel in which food is
cooked.
Sometimes there's also been a fruit etc. that cooks well
referred to as a cooker.
Cookery
is the art of cooking So is the
practice of cooking, cookery.
Cookery
can also be the product of the cook's art, and it could also be a place
for cooking, a kitchen.
You
are so
cookish meaning you are
so much like a cook. This is a rather rare expression.
BBQ
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Weber
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Smokers
and in the U.S.A. it is a small
flat cake, with or without sweetening.
Please, take your time and look
into biscuits and
cookies.
A
bun could be what you put your hotdog into, apart from what can be found
in saucy remarks
and various other references not mentioned here.
This is what
one of our regular visitors just had to say about bun & buns:
-"Yeah,
but why not tell students what "buns" also can mean?
The anatomical
word buttocks is completely decent to use in this situation,
and there would be nothing wrong in explaining what part of the body
is called "buns".
Together
with a cup of coffee, or a cup of tea, it will make wonderful conversation
during breaks,
just like discussing the difference in the way
"cucumber" is dealt with in English compared to in Scandinavian
languages.
Once you've cut a cucumber it isn't a cucumber any longer, in
English that is.
Try to find a simple item such as "saltgurka",
outside Sweden, and you will realize what I mean.
Good luck to you, and
enjoy
your meal!
One major problem to
Swedes is the similarity between Sw 'koka' ('kokning') and
Engl 'cook' ('cooking').
The Swedish word 'koka' means 'to boil',
such as causing water to pass above 100 degrees centigrades
(Celsius),
where in English 'cook' means preparing food, or heat
up food, to subject to the action of heat.
This language confusion between cultures
never stops causing difficulties,
and not focusing enough upon
major issues like this one in schools make things even worse.
... and
what
about cook and
cock?
Are they related
somehow?
...och
vad säger du om den gula löken utanför
Sverige?
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heard of a yellow onion?
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James Cook
along with a summary of his voyages
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