She started a fire and cooked some vegetables. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The plates are piled high with golden-brown noodles, colorful cooked vegetables with tofu, and deep-fried, orange-glazed chicken. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Smells like sweet corn cooking, only better,” she said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

A long, deep dish held fried fish that had been cooked in what appeared to be onions and...other things Anya had never seen before. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

We also had our own cook, who tried to get us as fat as possible before launch day. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If your cook cannot make the perfect panini, it is not because he is stupid. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

So did I. All I could think about was the first day Jazz and Noodles met, and Jazz asked him if his mom didn't cook. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“What an excellent fish dolphin is to eat cooked,” he said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shake that crab before cook. His legs—droopy. His mouth—wide open, already like a dead person.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would have to use fire again—for cooking, at least. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

There was freedom of movement within the dorms except during the three daily counts; inmates washed their own clothes and could cook their own meals, and there were television rooms. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did they cook it? No. So don’t give me any lip and drop at least a couple of Washingtons in there. You can afford a Lincoln. I know how the lobster market is doing.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Stores of cooked and raw food lay in the makeshift baskets Nhamo had been able to produce. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She almost wished she would run out of the stuff and be forced to either catch a fish and cook it, or simply starve, losing her ugly-fat the hard way. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I thought peanut butter was an especially odd concept: You were supposed to cook with peanuts, not pound them into a cream to put in a jar. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Combining sugar with almonds—as is still done in marzipan—cooks who were serving wealthy Muslims built elaborate, edible sculptures. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Many citizens of Century Village were widows who had once been great family cooks, so they formed a committee to plan the wedding dinner. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He watched his father discuss school with his sisters and cooking with his mother. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Thirty-five huge patties of hamburger already cooked and wrapped in tinfoil. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

What happened after the third pig cooked the wolf in the pot? The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Not only had Dad’s funk disappeared ever since my mood-music playlist, but even his cooking skills seemed to have improved. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

For dinner, he orders wild boar cooked with fresh mushrooms. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I seriously doubt that Maddy would ever like anything Mama cooked. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“No, sah. I am waiting until the war is ending so I am cooking for master.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He refused to allow Shin to eat them until they’d found a furnace or flame where a rat could be spread out on the head of a shovel and cooked properly. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Alba liked to sit with the cook at siesta time, listening to popular singing on the radio, especially the songs of the man she had met in the Japanese Gardens. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally met her gaze, she had the look on her face that she’d give the cooks who didn’t listen to her in the kitchen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I passed around the bottle of brand while the pig cooked over the fire, smoking and dripping fat onto the coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All together, the orbs glowed well enough, but one single orb would provide barely enough light to see with—certainly not enough to cook with or read a book by. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ishmael pushed two slabs of fir heartwood into the fire in the cook stove. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Moon had a condition where she couldn’t work anymore, but she would rather die than eat some Iranian kid’s teenage cooking. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Yesterday Mother felt well enough to cook split-pea soup for the first time, but then she was downstairs talking and forgot all about it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Do you cook at home?” his mother asked. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was written elegantly with shaded letters, and it was well and carefully drawn and witnessed by the cook. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of walking steadily on or even eating, I faded into dreams about the meat meals my mother used to cook, my monk’s food forgotten. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Chew Wong sulked, his cooking suffered, and it finally was decided to allow Bill the run of the kitchen. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the pasta cooked, Grandma and I made the cheese sauce by adding the grated cheeses to milk and heavy cream in a pot. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“That’s disgraceful,” he tells me, but still it’s better than paying for a turkey and going to the effort of cooking. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The slippery, light green leaves had fibrous stalks that did not become tender from cooking and so had to be carefully plucked out. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning Grandma cooks Bill’s dinner and takes it to him at the lime kiln. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They resembled noodles that had been cooked al dente. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the team slowly started moving, but Luke’s brain was cooked. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Since Lightfoot, just being around them was like getting fussed at for wearing shoes in winter and having a cow and a family cook. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Miyax had forgotten there were such good things and her mouth fairly watered as she smelled them cooking. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chronicler’s hopes rose at the sight of a small cook fire with a pot hanging over it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I also thought that if I could get the wall finished, I could build a fire after dark and cook a hot meal. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then I remember that Mama needs her to be happy about the cooking club. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Charles found that he could cook his fried and boiled meals more quickly and efficiently on the forge than he could on the kitchen stove. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

While Jay helped Mama cook dinner, I took out my rootwork book. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As is the Chinese cook’s custom, my mother always made disparaging remarks about her own cooking. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cooked and washed, he bathed the twins and fed them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d explained to her that an Elder was only really required to teach a Care three things—to cook a meal, to swim like a fish, and to read a book. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m late for supper as it is, and you know what the missus will say if I can’t eat a bite of what she’s been cooking.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was worried about his not eating his meals, till she found out he was having old lady Davis to cook for him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Leave it to us,” said the chief cook and the salad master. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We chopped ham and onions for the jambaIaya; then we played cards while the rice cooked. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

That had really surprised Papa, because he had always believed that there were special people—people born special, just like he was born to cook. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She grew up on her mother’s fried pork chops, spare ribs, and meatballs—all cooked with lard—and had become a pizza, hamburger, and french fry enthusiast in the United States. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Even though they could smell the steam from the rice cooking, they noticed the house was strangely dark and quiet. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The cooks carried big steaming pots out of the kitchen to the tables under the pavilion. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They were never on drugs, but they like to help Jay cook breakfast and even make bagged lunches for folks like Ms. Sonja, who may not get a good meal otherwise. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Just in time for supper,” declares the cook, and he begins to ladle pease porridge into the mess pots. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The day before yesterday Jan ate carrots with green peas, yesterday he had the leftovers, today she’s cooking marrowfat peas, and tomorrow she’s planning to mash the remaining carrots with potatoes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need another cook. What do you do?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish my parents could cook like that.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He remembered the cook, the flour on her hands, heavy breasts shot through with dark blue veins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I mean colored cooks know white people don’t want them using their dishes and things. That’s why they all drink out of jars and eat out of old plates or pie pans.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There was a rush to buy the cook drinks and hear more details. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The championship bout is five days away when the public discovers I have a boyfriend, who maybe doesn't look like Hugh but definitely cooks like him. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

From time to time when they cook they set off the fire alarm, which is overly sensitive, and they bang it into silence with the handle of a broom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

While I made a fire and cooked my supper, he watched me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They prepare an elaborate meal, fish and meat bought one bitterly cold morning at Chinatown and Haymarket, cooked as his father liked them best, with extra potatoes and fresh coriander leaves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After two meals of this, the cook frowned and sent up half a loaf of salt bread, as instructed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Last year, she had stayed up all night, cooking the turkey, wrapping surprises and hiding them all over the house for Gerald to find. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cordell Rackley was small and wiry, with skin the color of biscuits that had been cooked for just a minute too long. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Another team worked the pressing machines like cooks at a giant griddle. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Inside it was half-dark, for there was only one window high up on the wall and a thick blue smoke was rising from a corner where a young woman was busy cooking. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, how my father, said how they cooked her alive with radiation treatments. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His father had been a janitor for our apartment high-rise before he died, his late mother a cook at my grade school. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He put his face so close that Roy could smell cooked onions on his breath. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between fits of weeping, she ate cold cooked yams, which were beginning to taste moldy, and peanuts. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least twice a week she’d ask me to cook breakfast long after everyone had eaten and the dishes had been cleared. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The ship’s cook was the loudest, as always. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bernie the pastry cook tried to calm her down, but she wouldn’t be consoled. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then she would cook more dinner than usual, and dinner time would be longer. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

For several days she was busy skinning and cooking. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were cooking it wrong. I added salt to your stuffing too. You never add enough salt.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, she kept cooking my favorite meals, even though she really didn’t have the time. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The cook approached, her mountainous fat and her braids swaying, and picked up the plate without a word. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go anyway through the ankle- deep water of flooded street corners, the brown pools slicked with spectral emulsions of engine oil and cooking grease, soot and sweat. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the months went by, we cooked, worked, laughed, and planned. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The version that my mom cooks for me contains only white beans cooked in chicken broth. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As usual his mother cooks for days beforehand, cramming the refrigerator with stacks of foil-covered trays. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I only been cooking white Thanksgivings since Calvin Coolidge was President. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He was at the stove, flipping hamburgers like a cook at a diner. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then, with wooden scoops and knives, they took out the pumpkin flesh and put it in a cooking pot. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The smell of cooked, seasoned meat fills the air, mixing with the peppery gunpowder from all the fireworks. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jaimito called Lio a troublemaker, accusing him of cooking up plots and then running off to some embassy for asylum, leaving his comrades behind to rot in jail. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mm-hmm. Don’t look like it to me. She probably don’t cook, do she? These young mothers live in drive-thrus. Probably giving you hamburgers every night. A mess!” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Whoever named the fewest foods would have to cook. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I cooked and scrubbed and waited on them in a fury. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Forget the cooking next time,” he told her. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old cook got his kiss on the cheek from the princess, waited for her to leave, and began barking orders. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

‘We are forgetting our family history! These must be the very three that were caught by Gandalf, quarrelling over the right way to cook thirteen dwarves and one hobbit.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The world’s war found Aziz and her mother and the old cook and the harvesters—and put its calloused hand over their mouths. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Out in the kitchen, she saw her mother cooking rice and a seafood stew. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

For people who take in washing and work as cooks, who pick cotton and work at the hot dye vats of the factories. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My complaint was that I did not dare light a fire and cook that wonderful meat. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He honed his cooking routine to free up time for soccer practice. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He held up a big onion triumphantly, but his face fell when he saw the carrots were already cooked. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She looks down at the webby feet of her stockings, says, “I can cook corn pone.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t care how many deals my grandpa cooked up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What time do you want to start cooking?” she asked. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"Because if you want a fire to cook fish or crab, you can jolly well go up the mountain. That way we'll be certain." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I am the behind-the-scenes person, the invisible one who makes their lives run smoothly, the one outside the camera frame, the one in the kitchen cooking food or on the patio washing diapers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He winked at me and said, “I’ve eaten enough of Grandma’s cooking for a lifetime.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Our school is having an international festival, and the cooking club is part of a showcase,” I tell her. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Help yourself. I’m going through a little cooking phase. And certainly bring something back for your mother.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Mom was coming home late, so I knew Dad was cooking today. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The cook opened the oven door and put Bill part way in it, where he could feel the heat on his face. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was living room, dining room and cooking room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the eighth day Kunthi came as I was cooking the rice water. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See, those are the cannibals and these are the missionaries. The aim is for the cannibals to push the missionaries into the cooking pot.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d swim and fish and cook our catch over an open fire. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I said, and was thinking about the pie so much I didn't hear another word the girl said about Amish cooking secrets. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a cook, a driver, and three housekeepers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

That night, after Mom cooked a dinner of macaroni and cheese, we took a walk. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the cook trudged away, Reed shook his head. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She’ll probably want to, once I show her how; as near as I can make out, most women, even young ones like her, like to cook: it’s an instinct. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She’d smell the caramel cooking and cane herself right out the door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I could not help inquiring then how many staff were employed there, and I suppose I was hardly surprised to be told there was only himself and a cook who came in each evening. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I really did have to live near water for cooking and drinking and comfort. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be the last cooked food they would get. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I had my first bath and real home cooking in a long time. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two aunties lugged a large cook pot into the yard. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard shrieks of laughter coming from the other cooks but I can promise you I wasn't laughing myself. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

That was the day I would cook fancy dishes like lamb curry and mess up the whole kitchen. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The cook is off today. I’m starting lunch. Come slice tomatoes.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I gather pine boughs for my bed, cook the frogs legs and cattail tubers, then put out the fire. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ugly ones and Sarah with her big belly were to stay in the kitchen to assist the cook, and wash up. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had laid my fire; now I lit it, got it going—small but enough to cook over—and crept carefully through the bushes halfway down the hill toward the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’ve never seen someone actually wear an apron when they cook. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The church bazaars would leave the air redolent, smoky from mass cooking. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then I'd be sent South again to head the college—just as the mayor's cook had been made principal of the school after she'd become too lame to stand before her stove. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom might cook something vegetarian, while the kids take a pepperoni pizza from the freezer and zap it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In fact, I arranged it so my mother would want to cook a meal especially for him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I knew was that it involved an egg, so I imagined they used a cooked one—likely fried—which left the recipient greasy and smeared with yolk. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Aunty Uju laughed and in her laughter was a certain assent, because his words “Let me see if this is any good” were about her being a good cook, and therefore a good wife. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“They will, Joseph. The house needs to be tended to, cooked for, cleaned, washed, scrubbed. It needs to be loved. It’s not like a book you can just close and put back on a shelf.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was once a cook shack, where his grandmother prepared food on an open fire. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Mom was cooking when I walked into the kitchen. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

At home he sometimes cooked the new dish he had eaten in the jail, and on the streets there was never any knowing just what he would do. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A cooking apple spectacularly exploded on Squelch's head, ten feet away. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Even as I help cook, I bop, snap, do a little two-step, and follow along as Layla and Kayla practice their dance moves for the block party's talent show. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She holds up her hands, messy from cooking, coated with flour and chicken fat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Webb even said they would cook some real meat hamburgers just for me, or I could bring my own. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Well, Mrs. van D. does the cooking and Mother does the dishes and polishes the furniture. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I was just baking cookies, and my mom cooked a lot, so of course we had everything. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“After your mama cooks this,” he said, “tell her to take the marrow out, spread it on a piece of bread with pepper, salt, and make a nice samwish for you.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minerva and El Rayo cooked up this idea that everyone without exception was to wear a crucifix as a symbol of our solidarity. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t mind the cooking if I didn’t have to do the dishes, too,” Julie said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He could smell things cooking, and he heard soft laughter. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

At mealtimes he stood by the cooking pots and rubbed his stomach. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then Lion called the other animals to assist him in carrying Hyena to a place where they would be able to cook him for a feast. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He was slower with the skinning and dressing, the cooking, the fire starting, and even with the stealing, as they got him better-fitting clothes and a blanket of his own. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

If you don’t, she’ll end up as one of those timid maidservants who scarcely dare to raise their heads and whose only purpose is to clean and cook for their ghastly master. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Today we will teach you meat cooked in a special pot called a karhai.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

In the 1920s in the United States, high school girls were given special classes in sewing, cooking, and hygiene, while boys learned woodworking and how to use tools. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Mom must be home and she must be cooking or cleaning, because that’s the only time she goes into gospel music mode. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Louie could feel his feet cooking; the spikes on his shoes were conducting heat up from the track. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, okay. As long as we cook them.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And she would tell Loomis and her cousin Sissyretta and all her friends who did yard work or cooked in white kitchens or took in washing or nursed white children. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He liked the native cooking so much that once he ate eighty-two iguana eggs at one sitting. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He clubbed them to death, cooked them, and ate them with white wine. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Tellwright did, in fact, pay for cooking classes for Joyce, and she took them herself, right alongside the younger woman. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It’s really not that bad here, since we can do our own cooking and can listen to the radio in Daddy’s office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But would they be able to cook it? Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You used to think the cook was a treasure,” returned Edna, indifferently. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

The hardships of washing and cooking in a drought. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began cooking eggs, whistling the Laurel and Hardy theme tune, as if the hurricane that was Aunt Gloria had never been. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had cooked breakfast for my father, I was going to be salty. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

No wonder since we look it, and once more the humiliation of having nothing, not even a cooking pot, smote at me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

In time she created a whole miniature world of household animals and people engaged in every trade: carpenters, laundresses, cooks, each with his or her own tiny tools and furniture. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Eliza could cook real dinners, with turtle soup and joints of beef and mutton. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like my mom used to say, food is better when it’s cooked with love. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“If you find, your baachan cook and you have first bite. Worth many money. Nothing else taste same. Ah, I should not say, since I never eat. But I have many imagination.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She makes me drag a twenty-pound bag of potatoes to cooking class. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“All right, let’s go,” I tell her, mimicking that stern teacher voice she does so well at cooking club. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We butchered it and cooked it over a fire. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pies like mother would of made if mother could of cooked.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mama told my mama all about this brand-new ice cream you cooked up, so I convinced her to bring me. She’s parking the car.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Matt immediately unwrapped the blankets and found a nest of cooking utensils and a metal mug. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them sat in Jack’s parlor and talked into the night while Jack cooked big plates of soul food, macaroni and cheese, sweet potato pies, and biscuits for us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were stalls that sold food and drink already prepared, and stalls that sold vegetables and fish for cooking at home. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Should we start on the rice while the chicken is cooking?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They asked what I was doing cooking hot dogs by myself at the age of three. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Naught to make a fire with, for a start; and naught to cook, not even grass!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Templeton had separate African maids for her cooking, cleaning, and laundry. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later, while Cole was cooking lunch in the fire pit, a rock struck the ground only feet away. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But early in the morning like this, when the janitors and the folks who do the cooking are just making their way in, the door is unlocked. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It was just a little something Mrs. Larkin and I cooked up while having polite conversation. It really gets her dander up when someone insults the late Eugene Larkin.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Grandfather found a small bag of roasted coffee beans the thieves had overlooked, and he cooked a pot for us, army style. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The cooks served up great slabs of fresh horse- meat, charred outside and bloody red within, with roast onions and neeps ... and for once, the common soldiers ate as well as the lords and knights. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I figure my grandmother must be getting ready to cook something, so I move over to the kitchen and stand in the doorway. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Behind them came armorers, cooks, grooms; ranks of spearmen, axemen, archers; grizzled veterans of a hundred battles and green boys off to fight their first. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They ate at a table set up on the lawn, savoring Alice’s turtle soup and mutton and devising compliments for the cook, who would never receive them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A woman was drawing water from the well, and Gage the cook stood in the door of the kitchens. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then one morning, Ma had an I-won’t-even-look-at-you way about her as she cooked breakfast. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was stress cooking because she knew I was upset and wouldn’t talk to her about it. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

These grand homes, with their high, cool rooms, their polished mahogany furniture, their servants flitting between the main house and the separate cooking building, were meant to command attention, to show power and wealth. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

They suggested tactfully that Old Rit had better see to it that this new girl baby was trained as a cook or a weaver or a seamstress. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the next aisle, Mama goes for the biggest bag of rice I’ve ever seen, and I imagine her cooking me magic beans and rice, like in Daddy’s stories. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Most probably they cooked African yams in stews with European spice mixtures and native maize. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Those Dicey cooked and shared out among them, dividing the fish and the two rolls evenly. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one could figure what they were or where they had come from, so eventually Annie Broadbeam threw them into her cooking fire and enjoyed a hot rabbit stew on a cool autumn night. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Khaled said, “She told him he is not invited and he can go cook his own dinner with the other cats on the roof.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I have a grandfather named Scooter. He was a cook in the U.S. Navy.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

They slept in a tent beside the work and cooked over a campfire. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I've got to run over and pick up Mom. Then we'll be back and we can talk, and then maybe cook up some supper together, okay?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He struggles but fails to recall her presence at Pemberton Road; still, he is secretly pleased that she has seen those rooms, tasted his mother’s cooking, washed her hands in the bathroom, however long ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I went out to the kitchen to see if Yang Sze-Fu, the cook, would give me something to eat. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if Mom remembers to pick me up tomorrow, I have no cooking partner. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“In a few months, I reckon. I ought to know how to cook and stuff by then.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I kept thinking,” she whispers, “if I was real still, if I brought somebody in to do the house and the cooking, maybe I could hold on to this one.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I noticed that there was tons of other food lined up on the counters, including a couple of already cooked turkeys, a few hams, and a whole bunch of pies and cakes. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He tried to cook up a good excuse for being there, in case Lonna or Leon noticed him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. could cook, but she was no Big Ma in the kitchen. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, the cook struck the prisoner’s can with the soup ladle, spilling the watery contents on the muddy ground. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She munched, decided the plant might taste better if cooked, and went to the pond for water. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mess hall, and two cooks sitting listening to the radio got coffee for us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alba continued chattering about the cook who had stuck walnuts up the chickens’ tails for the evening meal. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The raft has a little spot where they can cook their food, stairs going up to a loft where they can sleep, and great views of the sunrise. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

For dinner, Sam decides to cook his favorite: sausage and sauerkraut. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Out on the decks, women cook food in clay ovens and converse loudly with their neighbors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You studied cooking in France. You should be running a restaurant.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Mother cleaned the intestines, later to be cooked with spices and rice. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I jerk around to the fry cook, who struggles with his apron. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In the background the news is playing, and the sizzle of something cooking in the kitchen perfumes the entire house. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

After about fifteen minutes he finally gathered enough energy to get up and go to the kitchen and start cooking supper. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I poured the cooked hot chocolate mixture through the strainer and into the bowl. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The meal was delicious, somehow better for being cooked on the old stove. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I bought our food at the market and cooked it as best I could and tried to keep Prim and myself looking presentable. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He had worked briefly as an automotive parts salesman, a janitor, a car wash attendant, and a short-order cook at the local A&W fast-food franchise. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting at the back of an afterschool cooking club I didn’t sign up for is even worse. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

At least when she was home in Soweto, I could picture her cooking in the kitchen or reading in the lounge, I could imagine her waking up in the house I knew so well. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon heard their cries overhead as he accepted a bowl of stew and a heel of black bread from the day's cooks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She cooked their bitter leaves as a vegetable. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll remind him when we cook and do the dishes too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She sang quietly to herself as she cooked, in a voice like a thousand old women all singing at the tops of their voices at once. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I go cook now. I fry carrot in bacon grease! Taste good! Not worry. I will cook, and after dinner, I will make straw sandal for Hana. Not to worry!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As for herself, she’d begun leaving the radio on all day, and cooking big complicated meals involving multiple bowls. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mommy could not cook to save her life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They learned how to cook and prepare those foods and passed all this knowledge on to their children. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“They will return in the evening. They said you should rest, Mama, when you come. I am cooking rice and chicken.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No. Nobody lives here but Capricorn and his men,” whispered Dustfinger, “and the women who cook and clean and so on for them.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I ask her where she’s from and she answers with practice a certain fancy neighborhood in Seoul, and then offers other facts I might want to hear: she’s twenty-two, a college graduate, a good cook. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was hating all of the Christmas cooking and tunes and dumb holiday specials...but this one Christmas gift had slowly grabbed hold of something inside of me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Camping in a clearing that he knew well from previous journeys, Matty sat on a log that he had often used as a seat while he cooked his meal. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I turned off the radio and tried to cook the meal in peace. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought for a while there, when we were eating your food, she really did learn how to cook. Until that Saturday, when you weren’t here, and she tried to make hamburgers.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her cough is nearly gone, and she is growing quite fat with Mrs. Phinney’s cooking. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Gramps cooked dinner at six o'clock most nights. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We settled on 10 a.m. and set up a schedule so that each boy would get a turn at being the cook. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water used for farming, cooking, and washing had to be fetched in buckets from streams and springs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to do my own laundry now, and once a week, Hana and I have to cook dinner. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Sarah and the cook were exchanging heated words in the kitchen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t notice he was talking as if Granny was in her kitchen, fixing to cook us some grits, instead of laid out in a coffin in the parlor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I could cook anything I wished to eat. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the open kitchen of the Amateurs a girl was cooking potato-chips in oil. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

We put pictures from old magazines on the wall and bought two charpoys and a small hot plate to cook on. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

As precarious as her food supply was, she wasn’t even slightly tempted to cook this one. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jolly Roger, for one, began climbing up to the attic window of the track cook’s house to try to catch Seabiscuit working at night. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of it came out of cans—delicious, oily fish, and peas already shelled and cooked. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The patriotism of her young flight crews would be an inspiration to women serving the Motherland in a host of less glamorous roles—as snipers, tank drivers, antiaircraft machine gunners, technicians, cooks, or launderers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I’m betting my mom waited and waited, knowing my dad would eventually have to cook something if he wanted to eat. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

They're old enough to bicycle with their friends to Cuxhaven on the North Sea where they camp overnight and dive for mussels that they cook on the beach. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Gagging sporadically, the volunteer patiently scraped out the corpses, cooked up another sugar solution, and rehung the feeder, although already he was beginning to despair of ever attracting a hummingbird to his humble, accursed digs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Are you cooking a chicken in there?" he says. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“The top one is pastelitos. I learned how to make them from my husband, Beni. Since I ain’t Dominican and all, I had to learn how to cook that food to keep my man!” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Omakayas loved this time of the year and jumped from her blankets eagerly, rolled her sleeping mat and fur blanket, and put them away quickly so that she could help rekindle the outdoor cooking fire. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

At home we had no choices; we ate whatever Mamá cooked. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“We made it, kids, the sun is rising! Come on, Lena cooked hotcakes.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The meal had been turkey and they cooked it in the back yard in the barbecue over charcoal with the lid down tight. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the boys’ room, all that remained were the bolts that had attached the bunk beds to the wall; I guess that wood had built someone a cooking fire. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We sit with Namontack at the communal cook fire as he eats. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I swear, if you didn’t need that scholarship, I’d take you out of that program. I’m not sending you there to be in no cooking class. What that got to do with getting into college?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Enjoy your last meal, Leatherneck,” said the cook who served me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She used school equipment for her catering business, without permission. When she was let go, it was my opinion that the cooking club should be disbanded.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The cook folded some skin over the bone. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Olga was the perfect daughter—cooked, cleaned, and never stayed out late. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Moments later wheeled carts arrive, chock-full of pastries, eggs cooked in every way, grilled meat, petit-pancakes with sugar dust, and bowls of colorful fruit. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I gave her a nice mangrove snapper that I caught, and she had it cleaned and cooking over the flames in five minutes flat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mama spends almost the same amount of time washing her pots and cleaning her blender as she does actually cooking. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

At first, when they tried to cook inside with one of the blubber stoves, the oily smoke nearly suffocated the men. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She continued to cook, with a stubborn look on her face. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Luke kept interrupting the cooking process, so Mr. Ferris helped him unpack the helicopter. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

While it cooked, I cleaned myself up good and proper. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they got the Primus going and boiled down some snow so they could cook their hoosh. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

If anyone in this awful class has an ounce of cooking experience, it’s her. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Since when do you like cooking?” his mother asked. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

People begin to cook as long as they can get a cup of mtdc mam. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Once again the kitchen was all of a bustle with cooks and waiters rushing about everywhere. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

But maybe she doesn’t know how to cook, he thought suddenly. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

So I am here, in the kitchen, to cook him dinner. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quietly she put down her cooking pot and crept to the top of a dome-shaped frost heave, one of the many earth buckles that rise and fall in the crackling cold of the Arctic winter. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were growing impatient, for the cook paid no attention to us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she cooked Thanksgiving, Brooklyn Daisy went on break and Carolina Daisy ran the show. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The smell of cooking, of onions and garlic, rose from the boat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It happens when your brain isn’t even fully done cooking—when you’ve barely experienced anything, really. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of cooking, what do you think of frybread for an early dinner?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

If you have only a room, with a hot plate at best, you can’t save by cooking up huge lentil stews that can be frozen for the week ahead. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, a packet-ship arriving from Nova Scotia with meat, thus alleviating the city’s starvation, I purchased a salted ham-hock with Sally, and, by her side, stripped it for cooking. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She had a young baby, worked full-time as a cook in a cafeteria, and had a husband who was a handful. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we return I slip on a pair of heels and cook dinner, even though I’m still full from Mrs. Mendez’s empanadas. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On the first Thursday of July, at twelve noon, Miss Celia gets up from the bed for her cooking lesson. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Gerald learned to cook and shop with food stamps and wash clothes at the Laundromat. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas couldn’t ignore the way the Keeper of the cooks kept giving him a weird look, eyes darting away whenever Thomas returned the stare. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“So he would cook for you? How adorable.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I could hear laughter and smell barbecue cooking. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

While others build fires, cook food, and talk, we eat our food in silence. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra never had any complaints about her mom’s cooking, but Lena was in a class all her own. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

This sister had in her housing project apartment about fifteen of the maids, cooks, chauffeurs and house men who worked for the Hartford-area white people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reached Big Joe’s you could smell the food cooking. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the heat made her faint, she awoke with her head smeared into a rafter, her neck feeling like a chicken’s after Alice the cook tried to wring it for supper. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The cook said, “I don’t think what’s-his-name is there any more.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he cooked a new batch of chemicals, and took the alkahest over to the north anchor to test it again. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

These are not pots for cooking, I should point out, just decorative pots deployed to catch stray beams of sunlight or reflect the owners’ no doubt expensively buffed and peeled faces. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the blond-haired cafeteria lady joins in on the Oh my, you just got cooked, son. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We’d hired a caterer to add to the food my mom cooked, and a bartender to set up and serve the drinks. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Are you trying to tell me you miss my cooking?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Very softly, she said, “This meat is cooked.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the hot dogs cooked, I followed the path from the gentlemen sign down a sharp ridge, over a dry streambed, up another ridge, and behind a boulder the size of Camillo Junior High. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

So Mary left the other two by the riverbank, where they sat to watch the tide flooding in, and went to join Atal by the cooking fire. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was a terrible cook, an even more limited housekeeper. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, though, in the evening when we are waiting for a little rice to cook, we talk. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through lips as white and brittle as a swallow’s egg, Jacob said, “I suppose someone was careless with their cooking fire.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I feel it in the kitchen, where we jostle for space when cooking our evening meals. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eliza was in the kitchen cooking up a storm, and the room had never been cleaner. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a cooking fire, the flames represented by shards of red glass; a small, roughly made bench; and assorted tools, gourds, and shells. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The blue-green room, the orderly apartment, the meals cooked, and the blankets tucked in cozily at night—all this gave her a feeling of comfort, almost luxury. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She climbed back to the place where she did her cooking. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked down to the rocket, and some of the men were eating a freshly cooked breakfast under a shelter built by Cookie. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dominic had made a fire and was cooking our supper. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m only happy when I’m scrubbing my floors and cooking my food,” Santa told her guests. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had learned to cook some of her fancy dishes when she worked as a maid in white ladies’ kitchens on Park Hill. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You? Why didn’t you say so? If you’re going, I go, too! I’ll sign on as anything from second mate to cook!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hobb had cooked up a venison stew, thick with barley, onions, and carrots. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The cook leaned through his window and rested bare elbows on the serving counter. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama fried it when she cooked, but Anya wasn’t as confident. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“And you picked me, because I’m an awesome cook.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But when the cooking club finds out I stood there and let Mrs. Kluck blame everyone, they’re going to hate me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I thought: after I get the cress and the other greens I will cook breakfast and then go fishing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

That was right after Daisy the cook got sold because she tried to poison Massa Derby. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, when his mother was sick with the coughing, he wished that he, and not Anulika, would cook. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It is cooked in fat and tastes good, I eat it slowly. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madam hired the cook from the City Tavern to prepare the meal. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I am just cooking some. Come in and rest.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only disaster worse than my room was the kitchen after Dad attempted to cook. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When Mom was, well, Mom, she loved cooking. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Inside, the cooks were ladling out beef-and-barley stew, thick with carrots and onions, served in trenchers hollowed from loaves of yesterday’s bread. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought the hot water was for cooking. I never used hot water just for washing before.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as quickly, the waiters, cooks, salad master, souffle maker and dishwashers skidded to a halt. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had given birth to me in the morning and cooked supper for ten that night. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I didn’t know better, I would assume my mom messes up the rice so she can get out of cooking. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“They turn all fever victims away. Your cook can care for your mother. Your grandfather can travel with you. This is the best for all.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now his sister had to team up with his mother to do the cooking, although that didn't create much trouble because people were eadng almost nothing. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t even know how to run a cook. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But see, I couldn’t iron or clean house or cook. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama had cooked a special meal for us. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You want me to go in the kitchen and cook you something?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

And last there was duck cooked with pineapples. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And lastly I talked about all the many things I’d learned from Angelo—things about mushrooms and pigs, about nature and the arts of cooking and eating well, and so much else besides. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“A boy who peeks into the cooking pot will beat his wife when he grows up.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Taking care a white babies, that’s what I do, along with all the cooking and the cleaning. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then we had to check the grocery list against the menu and who was cooking what. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once he quieted down, she asked Roberto and me to clean the beans to cook for supper. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She really wanted me to cook with her. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As night fell, the leader of the captors ordered small fires to be made on the beach, and Amari soon smelled the welcome odor of food cooking. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We haven’t cooked today. We don’t have any tortillas. Try somewhere else.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When she’s thirsty or hungry, she cooks for herself and only herself, not for a husband asking for this and that. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We had a turkey, and Mom cooked it perfectly. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She praised them and told me how to cook them and asked all about my family. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody in school knows she can cook up a storm. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I mean, it’s nice to have someone cook for you,” she says. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She ran the house, looked after the kids, did the cooking and the cleaning. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He worried that she would marry Master and bring her Yoruba-speaking housegirl into the house and destroy his herb garden and tell him what he could and could not cook. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even the cooks and potboys were watched constantly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But I’m making this mostly because I know my father loves this dish and I know how to cook it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we soak the rice, it becomes softer and cooks faster,” I call out loudly. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The cook, placed upon her mettle, served a delicious repast—a luscious tenderloin broiled à point. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

With him in the valley—in the house—I decided I should cook better meals than I did when I was by myself. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I can’t lie—I felt a little deflated when she said that, like cake cooked at the wrong temperature. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They were already cooking and I shared some fish they were grilling. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had an equal responsibility for keeping the apartment clean, for cooking, and for taking care of the boys. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Percy heard the clank of hammers at a forge and smelled meat cooking over a fire. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As poor as they were, the two neighbor women cooked supper and brought it to the Torres house. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Peeked up along the rock, saw down to where shells were bursting along the road, saw cooks and bakers scrambling to escape, horses and wagons wobbling away down the road. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What are you going to cook?" the girl asked. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It really is a whole pig cooking inside a huge metal box covered with a sheet full of coals. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The smell of cooking hangs in the air. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was the clank of cooking, and the mineral smell of coal smoke. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We learned how to find and cook local foods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When she wrote that she was worn out from cleaning and cooking for her father, William said he wanted their marriage to run on different lines. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Dale, your own cooking is good for you,” Mother said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Big Ma cooked the food in the food groups and said, “Kids are starving in Africa, India, and China, so eat every bit.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I learned to cook so well that I could smell if the meat stuffing was too salty before I even tasted it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your girlfriend cooked this? If she did, then now I get why you buggin.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The next day when he came home from work, Mom was cooking at the stove. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not know what Clytie thought, what life she led which the food we raised and cooked in unison, the cloth we spun and wove together, nourished and sheltered. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if you can stand Philomel’s cooking,” he went on, “though I might try to get her mother while you are here. Do you think she would come?” turning to Mariequita. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Don’t like how my tongue starts longing for chicken and gravy the way she used to cook it in the old days. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Franca, the cook, somehow managed to make a cup of coffee for them—despite the wet wood for a fire. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Jhiqui roasted the meat with sweet- grass and firepods, basting it with honey as it cooked, and there were melons and pomegranates and plums and some queer eastern fruit Dany did not know. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I’m always the first one up in the morning because I like to cook breakfast. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

"The cook who works at the house where your father once worked contacted us some time ago," Thatha explains. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I drank the first one and then I thought I’d take advantage of the fact that she was out and cook myself a steak, make a red-onion relish, have it with a green salad. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

While this cooked Baucis set the table with her trembling old hands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And no pheasant buried in coconut leaves for twenty days and stuffed with wild rice and cooked over a wood fire so tender and delicate it make you cry. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t really have a plan beyond finding the fastest way to the Hubbard Glacier, but Percy smelled something cooking nearby— sausage, maybe? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Some cook a little extra for dinner— and bring the leftovers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I could smell the smoke of something cooking while we were still in the woods making our way over to Miss Trotter’s. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

One of the cooks renders cooking fat with herbs to rub into our chapped skin. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On some nights when we really need it, Pa allows Ma to cook a tiny portion of the rice and mask the smell by burning damp, decayed leaves in the fire. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed to warm up to me a little and she was patient with my ignorance of cooking. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the cook’s back Johnny lifted it in trembling hands. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with all the stuff going on at cooking club, this little part is all my own, giving me some comfort. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“She cooks for me from time to time—and she works in the coroner’s office. In my line of work it’s always good to have a friend there.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

That evening, while he was cooking dinner, a quiet voice on the radio announced that Nigeria would embark on a police action to bring back the rebels of Biafra. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The food—fried okra, steamed corn on the cob, and pot roast that was so tender it fell right off the plastic fork—convinced me that Dolores was an even better cook than Maureen. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Some days she cooked biscuits and bacon; some days bacon and biscuits. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Theon hacked a loaf of bread in half, hollowed out a trencher, and summoned a cook to fill it with fish stew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was Hannah who found the bent spoon black from steady cooking. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The young man had built a small fire and was cooking a piece of sausage he had taken from a package. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I figure she gonna tell me I shouldn’t be doing Biddy’s cooking for her or some such. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh, a secret surprise! Will you ask the cook to come in as you go by the kitchen?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You are a good cook for one so young,” he said, laying his hand for a moment on her head. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Mom working so much after he lost his job, he was trying his best, but I sure missed Mom’s cooking. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He brushed his white, brimless cook’s cap back and rubbed his forefinger against his sweaty forehead. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Nielsen, turning to Mrs. Murphy, asks, “And can the young lady cook and clean? Is she hardworking?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He cooked for Cathy, going through recipes used by his mother and his stepmother. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We took their ammunition, sat on their bodies, and started eating the cooked food they had been carrying. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“And,” said Marjory, “from what I’ve heard, he never once came back here until he cooked up his crazy scheme to build a new library in the old bank building as a big publicity stunt.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Their food was dished out from a leafy bower, where Marian and her attendants cooked. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to cook my fish before it spoils!” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

No one is cooking in the kitchen even with the nice stove and refrigerator filled with food. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Vendors hawked strings of Amber orbs the size of pomegranate seeds next to enormous ruby-red orbs big enough to cook soup for an army. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We later discovered that plastic cooking oil caps worked much better as wheels, enabling the trucks to last much longer. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Inside she nearly managed to slip up the back stairs unseen, but the cook spied her from the kitchen and cried, “Aisling! Whatever are you doing? We were certain you had run away.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Thanks," said Jelly, "but I got a girl friend lives around the corner and I promised to do her a favor tonight. She goes to cook and baker's school and I'm gonna check her homework." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cooked a meal for Abuelo every time he dropped her off at home. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But the best thing fire did was cook. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was trying to start the fire and cook all at once, which will never get you anywhere. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fired from the restaurant in Taimani because customers complained about the long waits, Rasheed said the cook was slow and lazy. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nearby was a pile of stove lengths on the circle of burned ground where she cooked down her apples for apple butter. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She does cook when Dad is home, but canned tuna, frozen peas, and mayonnaise tossed over noodles is not my idea of delicious. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Clutching the cooking pot to her breast, Miyax excitedly waited to see her bring back meat for the pups. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I agree. Let’s go see what Grandma’s cooking. After I sneak you in.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She’d cooked up some antelope meat and tried to make fried plantains that turned into something like black horse-hoof glue in the pan. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Son, I always thought I could drive a spike as good as any man and cook as good as any woman. I just figured if everybody else can learn to read, I could too.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An odor of Creole cooking led me to a cafe at the comer. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This soup is delicious, isn’t it? I’ll have to ask for the recipe to give to the cook at our house.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The base people do not eat at communal kitchens but cook for themselves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cook stood there like a shrivelled bootlace, tight-lipped, implacable, disapproving. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I knew Miss Love could make coffee, but after boarding so many years, she might not know how to cook anything else. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Stealing through the morning air came a familiar smell of smoke and something cooking—beckoning irresistibly. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Singer said, “I’m going to cook you and eat you on Halloween, Ryan Dean West.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her cook prepared for Woody a special meal of teriyaki fish, its sauce enriched by the gift of sugar, and Toyo served it on one of her few remaining treasures, a fine set of porcelain. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was a curry. I learned it in cooking club.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

My eye, won’t some cook get a rum start when she sees his green eyes a-shining at her out of the dark! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The cook was past her middle years and homely. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She cooks for herself and sorts through the papers left behind, looking for clues. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Many people were complaining of robberies—basic necessities like sadza and cooking oil were being stolen. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I got up just before dawn and got the fire going in the stove and put water on to boil and cooked our morning rice. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

To tell you the truth, the three orphans were so excited to be out of Count Olaf’s house, and in this pleasant library, that they were a little distracted and unable to concentrate on cooking. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Mama’s killed chickens and all kinds of fish and stuff to cook before. And I bet she would kill any anything if it tried to hurt her or one of us.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I had lots of time to cook and try mixing different plants with different meats to make things taste better— and I must say I originated some excellent meals. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paused before a small white cottage, snuffling ecstatically the wonderful aroma of cooking drifting out mingled with wood smoke. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was cooking ... when they made the announcement on the radio,” recalled Georgia Gilmore. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Then he went into the back and brought out a can each of sulfur and saltpeter and a ten-pound bag of cooking charcoal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’s a regular mom who happens to be our cooking teacher. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The cook’s wiry black fingers were in his hair. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Memories and jokes about how he used to be a better cook than Grandma, but how nowadays she had a leg up on him, or as he put it, “a two-eyed advantage.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She says, “It’s like I can’t even cook without someone pointing out—you pointing out—that I’m exotic. I’m different. And you’re my friend.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When the food was cooked, Vikus made a point of inviting Temp and Tick to join them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Adam said, “I don’t see how you could cook and raise the boys and take care of me and still do all this.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the corridor came the smell of unfamiliar foods cooking. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

As night fell over the hushed, shadowy hills of the countryside, I thought of the women in the camp, spending their days cooking with corn and rice, tending to their children, gossiping about camp life. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Then she cooked, using her daily ration of seven hundred grams of corn meal to make porridge in the one pot she owned. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I made a salad while the steaks cooked, and set the table. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I think they have bandages in the Starlight Room. The cook asked for one after he cut his thumb.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Last week he turned off the gas, too, so we couldn’t cook.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what to do; either way he was cooked. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Queenie fried a chicken and cooked up a mess of vegetables for dinner that day, but I don’t think Papa knew what he was eating. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When the omelette was cooked he folded it over and cut it in half with the spatula. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Omakayas sat near the cooking fire and slowly, with deep inner fury, ate a bowl of cold stew. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to leave them alone together, but Mother needed help with the cooking, so I returned to the stove but devised small errands to bring me back to the table. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t realized how hungry he was, so he held the hot dog in the flames to cook faster. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A chair upholstered in burlap stood before a giant coal-fired cooking range cast from iron. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Nick could see it all: He would get all the kids to bring their lunches from home every day until the ladies who made the lunches cooked better food. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandmother with nine hundred heads killed each ox, skinned it, and tossed it into her enormous cooking pot. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mama then cooked the tortilla on a comal on one of the two burners of our small kerosene stove. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were people that must have cooked all night, because they would get on the morning trains and have food to sell to the passengers. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A star is a kind of cosmic kitchen inside which atoms of hydrogen are cooked into heavier atoms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve a lot of cooking today and there’s cleaning and sewing and all. You evidently wish to see Mr. Ttt; he’s upstairs in his study.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if you can stand Philomel’s cooking," he went on, “though I might try to get her mother while you are here. Do you think she would come?" turning to Mariequita. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The food is nearly ready. It’s nothing much, home cooking, you know.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She insists on staying online while we cook. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

This is what Ralph would have liked to think about instead: a chicken cooked and cooling. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we reached a kitchen staffed by skeletal cooks and servants, I was practically carrying Nico. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Martín was in an especially nasty mood today, and I could hear him yelling orders at the cooks. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I help cook the grains in the big pot over our communal cook fire, and I watch as the mealworms float to the top. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They cooked enough food to cover the dining room and kitchen tables. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So many appetites wake up that Brother Vu just has time to cook rice and serve it with plain fish sauce. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

During the next two weeks, Mama cooked outside on a makeshift stove using rocks and a comal Dona Lupe had given her. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She could use some of the cooked mealie meal and have it ready tomorrow. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I help her cook soup, chopping the potatoes and onions, just wanting to get the visit over with so I can go back to the hotel and school, places where I’m comfortable. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually he complimented the cooking, joked, and told stories about his day. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

At length, she said, “I cook to eat, not to show off.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Pakistani food, like the recipes we cook in club.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I thought of the rare weekends when Appa was away and Amma had enough energy to join us so we could cook a meal together. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Lawes’s children knew the inside of the prison from movies they watched there, and the inmates who worked in his house as cooks, cleaners, and handymen knew his family. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now the food has run out, and three months have passed, and my mom doesn’t look like she plans on walking into the kitchen to cook dinner anytime soon. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“I’d offer to help with dinner,” Uncle Phil says,“but I only know how to grill burgers. I’m useless at cooking anything else.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once, the suffragists were served ginger cakes with a dead fly and a piece of newspaper cooked inside. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

From the truck he sold coffee and pastries, the hot lunches Mami cooked daily, and the bark cider he made by the gallon. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Odors of old stone and Creole cooking and coffee filled the streets. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bath water was steaming on the cooking stove, but Momma was scrubbing the kitchen table for the umpteenth time. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight he brought me my Soup, & said he had cooked it himself. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Now, Minny— “I was real glad to get the recommendation from Missus Walters. She told me all about you. Said your cooking is the best in town.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Without her, the cooking and shopping will be very difficult, not to mention how much we’ll miss her company. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I went downstairs at the crack of dawn this morning and saw Dadi in the kitchen, stress cooking and baking. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some had even uncovered barrels to catch the rain water, which they loved to drink and cook in. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a love that like a pan of syrup kept too long on the stove, had cooked out leaving only its odor and a hard, sweet sludge, impossible to scrape off. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Their ordinary moments—answering the door, cooking in the kitchen, dancing to Adina Howard—assaulted me and expanded my notion of the human spectrum. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He visited the kitchen and had a talk with the cook. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The earlier pleasure over his approval of her cooking had evaporated. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

So a tray was fitted out before anyone began, and taken up with the cook’s compliments. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you want to poke around,” said Brave Orchid, “why don’t you find out what’s in the kitchen drawers so you can help me cook?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farmers supply eight different varieties of dried maize to his shop, Itanoni, where the kernels are carefully ground, hand-pressed into tortillas, and cooked fresh for customers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could still hear Mrs. Baylor in the kitchen, cooking my dinner. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

At mealtimes there was a huge round table, filled with all kinds of southern cooking, baked goods, and cold drinks. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the wind was very cold and I was no longer afraid that the Aleuts would find me, I made a fire in the cave and cooked a supper of shellfish and roots. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like to cook things even more than I like to eat them. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had to strain his brain to remember overhearing Dad or Matthew reporting to Mother, “Ready to cook some steak? Johnston up near Libertyville wants some ham...” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The cook saw that I was looking at it instead of eating it, and she misread my expression. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Makes it nice to have money around Christmas. We could cook a turkey this year.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You Renegades are going to cook out there tomorrow,” Mom says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“I was going to send somebody in to finish cooking, but you can, can’t you?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, during her cooking lesson, she was still shaking so bad, she couldn’t even measure the salt in a spoon. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I like to cook, but when I was alone I frequently just did not bother—it seemed silly just for one. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And when the preacher came out, Mama always cooked extra. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being a cook was the most valued job in the camp. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather and I are in the kitchen the next day after school, and he’s complaining about my mother’s cooking. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Since I could not see well by the dim fire I used for cooking, I made lamps of the dried bodies of little fish which we call sai-sai. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was their front room, and behind was the big kitchen where Antonapoulos had cooked all their meals. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stand hanging around downstairs while Dad cooked the onions for the meatballs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

This I do not mind because both Addie’s parents are good cooks and they always have interesting things to eat there, even if they are vegetarian. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like cooking. I can eat Indomie noodles day and night.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Of course I’d miss them, too. But, you know, who would do the cooking?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I can’t give you all my cooking secrets in one day.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, no one noticed anything until four weeks and four inches went by and our cook, Viola, gave me a hard look one morning. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“The previous leader of the cooking club was ‘borrowing.’” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I felt as if all the fictional ideas I cooked up were nothing compared to what was going on around me in real life. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She watched them clean and gut it and build a cookfire on the far side of the stream, and the smell of cooking meat mingled queerly with the stench of corruption. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A worn footpath brings us into the woods, and soon I smell the smoke from cook fires. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He started to work, summoning fire to dry out materials and do a little cooking that otherwise would have taken days to complete. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The owner of the ape-man finally recaptured it by luring it back into its cage with cooked pork and wine. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scents of wood smoke and cooking drifted up to Tally, smells that made her think of camping and outdoor parties. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s a hard thing to live with in the dark, and I lie awake cooking up plans to go hunt for him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they would think that I hated the cook? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granddad gives me a tour of the house while the cook sets out food and the aunts corral the littles. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Corn oil can be used as a cooking or salad oil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I got to get on home,” she told our cook. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s a lot of dampness trapped because the sun can’t work its way beneath these balconies. Do you cook?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Medwyn’s provisions needed no cooking, but the blaze warmed and cheered them. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Mom’s not cooking and watching renovation shows as much, but now she spends her time hovering around me. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I opened my eyes, I lay for a minute, watching Osh as he stood at the stove, cooking porridge in a scabby pot. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He said that Aina, the cook, had told it him; and that she had heard it from another woman who had lived at the College of Lucidity before Bono had come to reside there. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Now that there were no servants, Helen was learning to cook. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just too hot to cook outside right now, so it would have to be something quick and easy like a sandwich. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I asked her once about it, while she was cooking, so I knew she couldn’t go anywhere. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As the delicious smell of meat cooking drifted through the air, everybody worked together, and soon we had a small house with mud walls and a thatched roof and a garden for vegetables nearby. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prison service provided me with a cook, Warrant Officer Swart, a tall, quiet Afrikaner who had once been a warder on Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two precious months, Jack and Moniek cooked the soup and served the bread from the kitchen. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It cooks up into the sort of tasteless mass one might induce an American child to try once, after a long round of pulled-up noses and double-dog dares. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m exhausted from work. And Jack didn’t make it home early enough to cook anything, either, so we were thinking pizza. How does that sound?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Just add water, it said on the packages, and cook for half an hour or so until everything was normal-size and done. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cook smiled through his beard and sat up straighten “Shank’s got more guts than I’ve fried up from every pig and cow in the last year.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

He kept griping and groaning about losing her cooking—and more important, his ’78 Camaro—for the whole weekend. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I had never had them before we came to live with them, and the first night Momly cooked them I told her I liked them, and that was it. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“You do realize that your sheets are changed, your fires lit, your classrooms cleaned, and your food cooked by a group of magical creatures who are unpaid and enslaved?” she kept saying fiercely. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There were only some books in a pile, a small cooking stove, and the carpets, covered with mysterious designs. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dadi only talked like that, all formal and stuff, when she was cooking up some cockamamie plan that would usually end up with something valuable broken. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Betonie was sitting by the fire, watching the mutton ribs cook over a grill he had salvaged from the front end of a wrecked car in the dump below. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She cried when Papa said she could bring only one cat, but losing the cats was nothing compared to gaining Queenie, who would help with the baby and do their washing and cook their food. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She stares blankly at the pegboard behind the countertop where her cooking utensils hang, all slightly coated with grease. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We married her to a school principal. The rice was cooked in rosewater. The mayor was invited. Everybody washed their fingers in pewter bowls.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I have to admit that it smells amazing, especially mixed with the smell of the breakfast Pop Pop’s got cooking on the stove. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Just be sure to tell her later that her cooking was the best you ever tasted, that it was far better than Auntie Su’s,” I told Rich. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If she loves it so much, she should quit waiting tables and get a job cooking.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

This was the first meal she had cooked for him, and Mariam wished she had been in a better state when she made it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I needed a cooking job since the restaurant I worked at closed,” he said, and paused his chopping again, holding the knife still above the sliced chilies. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t cook very well, so they ate a lot of fast food. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you think about it, even cooks’ white aprons are similar to the white coats that scientists wear. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

There was a restaurant, too, where cooking was done over an iron stove instead of a fireplace; Jethro had eaten there once when he had come to town with Bill and Shadrach. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was just a joke. We’re going to have potato salad and smearcase and cold chicken and apple pie and lots of other good things. We’ve been cooking ever since your father called.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I be a fine midwife’s apprentice now. I know about babies and birthing, singing songs and cooking chickens, crying and laughing and reading.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, but you know I can smell Jazz's cooking through the wall," Noodles said, slurping and making the face that got him that nickname. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Every flavor of weirdness the human psyche could cook up was being filmed and broadcast online. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But that meant we all had to try to fill the dining room with Abuela’s essence—the thing our customers loved more than her cooking. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Why would I leave when you’re such a good cook?” he asked, smiling. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I knew she was hungry and intended to eat no matter who cooked the food. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

‘My land, boy, don’t you let them cook that pretty horse of yours.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam was building a fire to cook his breakfast of wild cereal grains he had collected. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She finished about twenty paintings in her studio, cleaned the whole house, and cooked enough soup to last all winter. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“If it don’t work out why you’ll have to go back to cooking and cleaning.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet I could not let the cook spit in the food all day. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry, Georges. I should have been around more lately. I should have...been here, cooked for you,” he says. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

That night the Nurmis were having fresh pickerel, cooked in the old-country way with the head still on and surrounded by potatoes. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also hoped she was right about, y’know, cooking being a way to get girls. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They split into two groups, one heading for the police station to free the cook, the other heading for the hospital to finish off Tayama, who had been concealed under a hospital bed. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

On occasion, the foremen would bring a cooking pot out to the fields and everyone could eat his or her fill. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s a milk-based custard I taught the girls to make in my cooking club.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Miyax found the names so nice that, as she took her cooking pot from the fire to offer her guests hot ptarmigan, she hummed and sang. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We end up cooking grilled cheese in the toaster oven and bringing it into the living room to eat in front of the TV. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She enrolled in a cooking course and perfected her considerable skills. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Still, you have your half, don’t you? But where will you cook it?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, waiting for the cook to boil the egg, he was apprehensive. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then Ma did extra cleaning and cooking, and opened the package of store sugar. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of the bacon cooking soon fetched Duck up from the hold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Really?” said Jake, realizing he still didn’t understand Spanish, even if he did now know how to cook Spanish food better than the kids on MasterChef Junior. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

She could already hear Mama and Grandma outside at the cooking fires. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He’d declared September Community Spirit Month, decided everyone at school would be involved and started assigning all the projects he’d cooked up over the summer. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Your daddy and me come from the same part of Gary Holler,” she said as she cooked. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he joked that the supply of food in his freezer, gifts from grateful community members who cooked for his family, might last as long. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Mosca gave Scipio a look of utter contempt: “They probably suspected the maid, or the cook, or another of your thousands of servants.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we got back from church, I went into the kitchen of the manor-house, where Mary was cooking the dinner and John cleaning the knives, and I said— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ll learn plain cooking for my holiday task, and the next dinner party I have shall be a success.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t kill them all, Leah explained, because then we’d have no eggs for omelets—one of the few things we knew how to cook. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun beat down through the trees, mixing its rays in the pale blue smoke of the cooking fires. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Ma, I am always hungry for your cooking, he assures her. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

So that was what Dad and I did for the next hour, him cooking and me measuring ingredients, and it was nice. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hines cooked special food for him and claimed he was growing so fast because of her pureed beets. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The stew was thick with barley, carrot, and onion, with here and there a ragged shred of salt beef, softened in the cooking. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"We want to have everybody over when he gets out. We want to cook some good food, and everybody will want to celebrate. But after that, maybe he should go to Montgomery with you." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We gossiped as we cooked small eggs and sweet potatoes on top of the houlu just to enjoy their smell. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the cook came in he was in a bad mood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, the cook would send the ship’s boy to the hold to fetch a link of sausage or a slab of pork. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But Mom’s not much of a cook, and I don't think anyone’s ever going to get used to the slow cooker spewing out what Daniel refers to as gelatinous goo. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the remains of a fire in an outdoor cooking pit. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I refuse all drinks at restaurants because I figure I can buy a drink anywhere—it’s the food I can’t cook that I’m here for. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Cal said, “We could cook that old rabbit and have him for our supper and stay out all night.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be hard, he said, if Estraven would take a false name and hire out as a cook or farmhand, which would not be pleasant, perhaps, but certainly better than returning to Orgoreyn. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

While I have also improved my reputation as a worker, because she is weak, Chou has been taken out of the garden and demoted to a cook. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most nights the delicious smells of Mrs. Grasso’s cooking wafted under their door. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

‘It isn’t a game, is it? We want a fire because we’re cold, and when you have a fire, you cook things. I’m hungry.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Bubbe usually takes over our kitchen and cooks turkey, chestnut stuffing, mashed potatoes, two types of pie, and Jewish apple cake. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Once it was discovered, cooking became one of the most important tools of the human omnivore. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I built the fire and was cooking the fish and making pancakes when Dad shot out of bed. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Holly, would you mind if I use one of those? Wynn’s been helping out so much, especially with the cooking, I thought I might make him an apron.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

When he was home, Tata was nice to him, prepared him special broths, cooked him creamy rice with milk. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mom wore a black dress and pearls, and she cooked this fancy meal. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the girls got to the porch I heard their laughter crackling and popping like pine logs in a cooking stove. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised to realize that I don’t hate cooking as much as I used to, at least when I’m in the kitchen with a friend. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She’d have to account for the broken glass in any case; but Rita would get surly if she had to cook a second breakfast. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she noticed that the cook was leaping and twirling, waving his knife and trying to reach the flying squirrel. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Kate read it three times, looked back at the date, studied the cook’s signature. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of fried garlic and cooked rice fills our kitchen when the family takes their usual places around a mahogany table where we each have our own high-backed teak chair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With me. We’ll start with the cooks. Good men to know.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It meant that there were some days when she simply could not cook a meal for the two of them when she got home. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Slice the bananas and cook them with the oatmeal,” suggested Francie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a young cook well known for his defiance and contempt for the authorities. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “You don’t have to cook for us.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was more apt to sulk these days, to fault her cooking, to complain about clutter around the yard or point out even minor uncleanliness in the house. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I got everything all cooked up and had just covered the pot when I heard little footsteps behind me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Captain was making tea and cooking potatoes for his supper when we arrived. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he doesn’t have to wonder on that thought too long, because it is about an hour until the release, and Byrd is cooking something in the kitchen. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When the sun set he crouched by the path and cooked a small supper and listened to the fire crack while he put the food in his mouth and chewed thoughtfully. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men in khaki work clothes will pry loose the slats of Reba’s Grill, where the owner cooked in her hat because she couldn’t remember the ingredients without it. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No, really. I mean, you cook, you clean. I’ve never seen the stove so spotless, the refrigerator so...organized,” she says. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And Cuckoo was pleased because he said, “You shall cook what you please in it.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“He must like my cooking too much to get rid of me,” Mandy told me over cold chicken wings and warm bread. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kochu Maria, the cook, still wore the thick gold earrings that had disfigured her earlobes forever. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep an eye on that fish. It cooks quickly. No bell rings when it’s done. “And don’t forget,” he added, “that they traded for that Gaming Machine. It probably came at a high cost.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t cook much, but if his mom had to work late, he’d make dinner sometimes. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t hum or dance the way she often did when she cooked. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had never told anyone this, not even Anulika; she had already told him he spent too much time around women cooking, and he might never grow a beard if he kept doing that. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her mother cooked the chicken’s body with tarragon leaves that had traveled in a plastic bag all the way from St. Louis. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He would learn to cook fried rice and he would have to use less oil and he would take orders from her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

JetBlue now has four hundred reservation agents, like Dolly, working at home in the Salt Lake City area, taking reservations —in between babysitting, exercising, writing novels, and cooking dinner. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

That night, as Omakayas ate the stew of venison that Mama cooked, she felt herself grow stronger with each bite. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then you can pour in your mixed-up eggs and salsa, and very carefully stir them around until the eggs are cooked. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“No—she’s good all the way through. I’ll tell you— if we don’t have meat to cook with the beans, why she just goes ahead and cooks the beans anyhow.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a half-hour walk to a hut made of mud and sticks, a cook shack with a fireplace, and a field of millet. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Are there women who both cook and write? Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen there was cutlery and cooking pans and english china. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was always something to find fault with for Shasta had plenty of work to do, mending and washing the nets, cooking the supper, and cleaning the cottage in which they both lived. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I picked my nose while I was cooking and serving. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The servant cooked the morsels in sesame oil, and the wonderful aroma made Wei laugh. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have to feed the girls—that’s groceries and a cook. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

How could you cook in that kitchen with the memory of what happened there? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

One day, she had her crystal chicken just right, and her red- cooked carp too. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like many others at the church, she volunteers to help cook dinner for the migrants each day. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I order miso soup, shrimp tempura, and California rolls with cooked fake crab. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My parents are away, and my girlfriend has come over to help cook dinner. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

One of the highlights would involve cooking and eating their enemies’ dead bodies. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I wave at Tía and Abuela, who are listening to the radio as they cook in the kitchen. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Big Ma cooked food meant to stick to your insides and keep your belly full. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I wrapped up the remains of the cooked pig in a piece of sackcloth, and Denna made a few trips with the water bottle and doused the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now she had finally taken the ultimate flight into space only to have her fellow cosmonauts joking about her cooking for them? Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Leopard Head was a cook for the demons on some ranch up to the north. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His front door opened into a tiny kitchen with a coffeemaker, a vintage toaster, and an old woodstove with two cooking pots on top, one empty, the other filled with chili. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was wood everywhere: in fences; as cooking spits; laid down in walkways over muddy patches; and in big stacks by the fires. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Families that live too far to go home between services cook their meal there on Sunday, and in the winter they can warm themselves at a fire.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Come, I’ll help you find enough eggs to satisfy the cook, and then we will talk together.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young woman in the house—Shin found out she was the farmer’s mistress—cooked for him and taught him rudimentary Chinese. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Claudia spoke softly to Jamie, “You sure are a fast thinker. Where did you cook up that story about the furnace?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cooks said the food would have a bit more flavor. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

An elderly woman, the resident, was cooking for him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the fire sat a three-legged iron pot in which something cooked. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

We make simple things, dal, rice, spinach cooked with tomatoes, chapatis. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A draught of cooks, from every inn and eating-house for miles around, arrived to supplement the dwarves and other odd folk that were quartered at Bag End. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In some quiet moments, I folded myself in a corner and did sleep, and the cook did not wake me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She plunged through the kitchens and buttery, blind with panic, weaving between cooks and potboys. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All the food that Jack had cooked for us lay on the ground behind us, ruined. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was shaking and saliva dripped out of his mouth as the smell of smoked meat, dried fish, and various stews wafted out from the cooking huts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

While his supper cooked, his mind ran over all the possible answers to his question. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“We’re ready. Next week, when we have time off, we are getting together to cook.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He came as a cook, and sat about in the bar all night looking perfectly miserable. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, Bridge and Tab stood in Tab’s small kitchen, eating mini-marshmallows and waiting for the Stove Top to cook. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The well water is strictly for the gardens and cooking; to wash ourselves and our clothes we must walk a mile to the pond. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never learned to cook as a girl. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you girls are happy with the arrangement, I’m glad to have Quincy cook instead of Biddy.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Amari carefully pierced the meat with a stick Tidbit had triumphantly brought her, and after the fire had been built up again, each girl took turns slowly turning it until it was cooked to perfection. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She usually cooked a pot of beans on the other burner. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was planning to cook breakfast in the morning. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Carefully she shapes a bit of the potato around a spoonful of cooked ground lamb, as uniformly as the white of a hard-boiled egg encases its yolk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Mamie Johnson’s cousin cooks for that school. They called to tell her where she has to check in tomorrow morning to get past the soldiers.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll start the fire now so we have good coals for cooking supper.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

What if their early fire right out in the open was for cooking up a third stranger who wandered across their path? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She looks up at the ceiling and declares, “I always loved your cooking, Grandma.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“We can only fix what they send us, Captain,” the cook said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have to cook perfect pots of things every meal but ate up all the leftovers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

A great blaze was crackling in the center of the camp, and he could smell stew cooking. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mami has cooked a big pot of arroz con pollo, the rice yellow and soupy with pieces of chicken mixed in. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Bye and bye they came to a set of tracks cooked into the tar. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I knew my mother would be cooking food for everybody and that my father would be hiding out in his bedroom again. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cook was so delighted to have someone to cook for, she prepared two eel pies. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Buttercup’s mother glanced up briefly from her cooking. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up in the Temple of Lkossa for the last ten years, the food hadn’t been special, but it’d been all right, prepared by a cook. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Our elders told stories, kids danced, and women cooked an entire cow—at the party, you're supposed to eat a whole cow. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t miss toting water from the well in a bucket for Mama to cook or clean with, or washing up from a basin in the corner of the room. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The smells of incense and sweat mingled with cooking odors from another apartment. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“We come to town as often as we can, but they don’t like to let us out much. What’s your guess about what cooks up there?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our food was barley bread, watered ale, and, from time to time, some cooked dried peas. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She would treat me to traditional cooking and tell me marvellous stories of her youth. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biddy up and tell Ms. D. ’bout how I’m cooking for Lizabeth first pop out the box. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Shackleton turned away to hide a grin and told Frank Wild to turn the lad over to the bo’sun, but added, “Introduce him to the cook first!” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

My mother cooked food in a three-legged iron pot over an open fire in the center of the hut or outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia took one look at his face and hung up her apron.“Finish the soup for me, would you?” she told a junior cook. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The microwave was another enigma: We wondered how it cooked food, since it didn’t grill or fry. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I have an announcement. Poplar Springs Middle has an international festival coming up soon. We have been invited to showcase our cooking club.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We got up early in the morning and dragged ourselves to the kitchen, eating cold porridge that the cook gave us with a scowl. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Then in the middle of her cooking my mother sat and cried, and we all stood by quietly. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain smelled coffee, the lovely smell of cooking chicken. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thank God she hasn't lost her cooking skills, even though her hands aren't as steady these days. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I would make a dressing of oil and vinegar, and cook some fresh biscuits. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Me and Shug cook, talk, dean the house, talk, fix up the tree, talk, wake up in the morning, talk. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean she bought him clothes, cooked and washed for him, and everything, as though he were a baby. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cooked his favorite dish, potato shorwa, though he could scarcely eat more than a few spoonfuls, and took him out every day for a brief walk around the block. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We snuck around to the back entrance and made our way to the kitchen, where cooks, busboys, and servers were all bustling around, getting ready for dinner. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Run out to the garden and get a head of lettuce, Matty, while I finish cleaning the fish. Then you can make a salad while the fish cooks.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She showed Liyana how to slap bread dough into flat rounds and fling them onto a hot black stone to cook. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy odors of Mediterranean cooking floated across the congested neighborhood from the opened kitchen windows in every' apartment building and double house. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And also, as he said she must, Mig tended Uncles sheep and cooked Uncle’s food and scrubbed Uncle’s kettle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I can’t leave you to grow up a cook’s helper. You must be educated.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Myself, I’m just happy to be living among fruit trees and cooking with wood again. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked through the Smoke, past cook fires being extinguished with shovelfuls of dirt; windows coming alight with candles and electric bulbs; and a handful of young uglies pursuing an escaped chicken. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Sarah had managed to overcome my uncertainty, my ignorance of cooking on an open hearth and teach me quite a bit. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The waiters and cooks had begun to call me “Sandwich Red.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the last two weeks lunch has been either spinach or cooked lettuce with huge potatoes that have a rotten, sweetish taste. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We cooked quietly and afterward I spooned the fried vegetables and rice in bowls. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

While the soup cooked, I swept the kitchen floor clean of the broken crockery. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most Eskimo wives were left home these days; with the advent of gussak frozen foods, cooks were no longer needed for the hunt. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd never considered housework or cooking particularly thrilling before—Matthew and Mark always scoffed at it as women's work—but it was better than nothing. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then without warning as the road enters a valley the rain stops and there is a white grease pat of a sun cooking up there in its sky. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ashima had gone to visit her; for the occasion her grandmother had entered the kitchen after over a decade’s retirement, to cook Ashima a light goat and potato stew. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Who knew what brand of mutiny his captives might cook up if they shared a common tongue. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She would let the chili cook for a while, then add red wine, lemon juice, and a pinch of fresh dill, and, finally, measure out and add her chili powders. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When was the last time you went shopping for any food that can’t be cooked using two minutes of radiation? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta had cooked up in her head that she was Pocahontas now that we’d heard the story of Augustus joining into his Indian family. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Why was his wife cooking for another man? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unearth my egg and see that it’s cooked perfectly to a soft boil. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They left near everything- tents, blankets, extra clothing, cook pots, and food. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” Doña Andrea said, “I cooked them for you. You don’t have the time to make them after work.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Please, ma’am,” said Alyce, who had learned that ma’ams and sirs served her well even with cooks and stableboys when asking favors. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him everything in one long sentence, and then said, “And so, can I cook my fish here, because I haven’t eaten in years.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched both of them, the boss lady and the cook, praying that the cook would spit again. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smoking preserved meat far longer than cooking did. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it wasn’t for us servants, the food wouldn’t get cooked, the water wouldn’t get toted, and the wood wouldn’t get chopped for the fires. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Not a sad, tired Uhmma who cooked and cleaned and sometimes yelled, but a stranger who had a friend and a secret language all her own. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Their window overlooked our courtyard, the concrete floor painted peach, where our mother cooked meals when the weather allowed. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As the birds cooked, bits of steam broke through tiny cracks in the mud and scented the air with a delicious fragrance. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The warmth of the thirty or so people inside, the familiar aroma of spices and good cooking, and the hushed play of children was extraordinarily comforting, the way wakes were, or weddings or baptisms. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ma was busy all day long, cooking good things for Christmas. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Earthworms! They’re fat and juicy. You take the dirt off, cut them open, wash them, and cook them. It isn’t bad, cook ’em like you do noodles. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought repulsed me at the time, since we consider mice vermin, unless cooked. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Lupita looked down at the bill, and then sniffed the air, smelling something over the tang of chili powder Aunt Consuelo was putting into her cooking. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

For ten years, Mother had been the primary breadwinner, while continuing to cook meals, clean the house, do the laundry, and I had never once heard her express anything like resentment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She had hurried out to the porch from the cooking hut and still carried a large wooden paddle in her hand, which dripped steaming water onto the floor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s cooking dinner—pasta and meat sauce, from the smell of it. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Some scholars believe there is a direct link between the advent of cooking, the shortening of the human intestinal track, and the growth of the human brain. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would deliver some of it to other people on the island who were too sick or elderly to cook for themselves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He hated the food because it reminded him of how wonderful Celia’s cooking had been. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since it makes you happy to have people eat your cooking, I will do my best.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took a lot for black people to let them go, and even if somebody was old and alone, others did the dropping by, die floor washing, the cooking. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine propped herself against the giant cooking range. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They come to the communal cook fire to warm themselves. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

We had hardly begun to cook when the smoke alarm went off. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children laugh and play under streetlights, mothers call from doorways, smells of cooking come at us all the way, through windows we see people around tables, eating. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Way she treat you? How much she paying you to put up with Mister Johnny and the cooking lessons? Must be less than all of em.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One of the cooks urinated in their canteens as they ransacked the cabins. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Behind Titi Generosa’s back we called her Titi Avena, Auntie Oatmeal, because oatmeal was all she cooked for us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But the cook’s expression did not convince her that she would keep quiet, so Ash ran up the stairs to Gwen’s room, not waiting for a response. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she presented herself at the makeshift cooking area to clean dishes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magical flames had formed some kind of fence, and must’ve cooked up all the liquid. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“My father made this food. He's a really good cook. Khan Sahib pays him extra so he won’t go anywhere else. The korma is one of his specialties.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Later my mother surprised all of us by announcing that she was cooking dinner. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Your uncle is a better cook than I am.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The cook was fixing supper and had set out salmon mousse with little floury crackers. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I remember the very loud, very disrespectful remarks Maddy made in the first cooking class. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I asked, suddenly excited that she wanted me to be a line cook or something. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I don't recognize the grain, our own tessera ration cooks down to an unattractive brown mush. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the evening, after I had cooked dinner and washed up, there would be lessons in reading and writing the Tang people’s words and in the use of the abacus for arithmetic. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day Lorena told her mom what happened, but she just said that she was probably dreaming and went back to cooking dinner. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He made sure all of the kids were dressed and ready to go on time, and he cooked breakfast, all jobs normally reserved for Alma. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Since Nancy didn’t have time to cook during the week, she would spend her Saturdays cooking. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hamiltons at the well rig had finished their lunch of Liza’s bread and rat cheese and venomous coffee cooked in a can over the fire. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The leg bones, the tripe, and the white maíz are cooked in a giant pot all night on low heat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Nor are cooks wizards, alas,” said Yarrow on her knees to see if the last batch of cakes baking on the hearth-bricks was getting brown. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

One day, while the two of them went to buy embroidery threads, Celia decided to cook them a savory flank-steak stew. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it would have been better if she put her head down and helped the cook prepare the private meals for her uncles. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Our food ration has been steadily reduced to the point that the cooks are now only getting a small twelve-ounce can of rice for every ten people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was not much now for him to cook. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gray had killed six of the ogres, but judging from the campfires around the property, there were dozens more—all waiting to cook Frank for breakfast. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When I was a child on the ranch near Salinas, California, we had a Chinese cook who regularly made a modest good thing of it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odd, she thought sleepily, that the house should be so dreadful and yet in many respects so physically comfortable—the soft bed, the pleasant lawn, the good fire, the cooking of Mrs. Dudley. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not cooked yet,” Will said, taking it away. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They offered me a bit of rabbit that was cooking on the fire. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the oatmeal was cooked, Katie filled two soup plates full, set them on the table, punched two holes in the can of milk and set a banana by each plate. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below, the Caird was dragged down to the surf and loaded with the bags of ballast, boxes of stores, a hand pump, a cook pot, six reindeer-skin sleeping bags, and the rest of the provisions. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

At lunch I’d help Mother cook and do the dishes, then I’d return, either to the junkyard or to the forklift. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“He likes your cooking, honey,” said their dad. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sister Fenella should have been cooking by now, and there were sisters he didn’t know very well hurrying along the corridors, looking anxious. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Although the sun had barely set, light shone from the kitchen window, and I smelled food cooking. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

So I went to Suffolk looking for Frances and her mother who could cook like the dickens. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I despised most of the meals Gay cooked. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When the onions were cooked to just the right softness, Dr. Bulkeley piled them in a mass on a linen napkin and applied the blistering poultice to Mercy’s chest. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him he heard Juana patting the cakes before she put them down on the clay cooking sheet. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides her, the House of Black and White was home to two serving men, three acolytes, Umma the cook, and the two priests that she called the waif and the kindly man. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“What will she do? What will be her passion?” your aunts would ask when they came over to cook on great holidays, which called for cannon salutes back home but meant nothing at all here. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t my cooking that made it perfect, but the connection we felt with the food, with the place we live and with each other. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

One of my neighbors, Mrs. Carmella Jobson, taught the course, and I loved going into her class to cook and bake things. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For me, Nochebuena meant the smell of onions and garlic cooking while my parents prepared the roasted pig. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I brought groceries from the store; twice he came to the back door as I was leaving the eggs and asked for specific things—he had run out of salt; he needed cooking oil. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Mo cooks very well,” said Meggie, stirring the thin, watery sauce into her spaghetti. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

For my broadcasts, I interviewed my mom about what she cooked for dinner, questioned my dad about work, and did investigations about the origins of various household items. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Salva had his own opinion of how the fire should be built and how long the meat needed to cook, and so did each of the others. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

With those words, Ma goes outside to cook our corn on a fire we started earlier in the evening. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime I cook something extra good and we all smile at one another. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Finally, the cooking done and the house smelling of spices and sauces, Aunty Uju went upstairs to shower. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I have the passion of cooking, pickling, curing salamis, sausage, making wine in the fall. This is my life. I do this with my friends. It’s to my heart.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Others chatted with their neighbors or prepared a bit of food, feeding the cooking fires with leaves and twigs. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The whole week before the event, Don Walter and the cooks and waiters are excitedly planning the menu and ordering fresh lilies and roses for the table in the formal dining room upstairs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gas man had cut the gas off, and I couldn’t cook none. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night, she cooked, making enough for a whole crew of poor motherless boys. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The neglect of the dishes, I discovered, was due to a curious impasse: Sally, the maid, now serving also as cook, refused to clean dishes, despising the lowly office of scullion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t taken off her headdress, even to cook, and now she sat forward and interlaced her fingers and watched us eat. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t get their cooking oil delivered either, other things as well. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just cooked my hands so I can use my fingers to examine the body.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Well, these were cooked with like, but for Love, so...pretty close. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The place was alive with vermin and the smell of cooking hung in the air day and night. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around three o’clock she would start cooking dinner, which was served from six to seven. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We returned to Macún in a rickety truck, our furniture and cooking utensils tied to the sides, our clothes and bedding bundled into cushions. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He glanced at the cook to thank him, but the cook did not look at Jack. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know for sure. But his meat doesn’t look that different from a squirrel’s. He ought to be cooked. . . .” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The small businessmen, government workers, and artisans who lived here could not afford the mansions of the Refined, but most of their homes were equipped with indoor plumbing, electric lights, and gas for cooking. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She was watching a cooking show on television. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

On my boat I had discovered the aluminum, disposable cooking utensils, frying pans and deep dishes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the kitchen door that was opened, they are cooking potato-cakes, the house reeks of it, and to-day of course is Saturday; that will be my sister leaning over. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She supervised while the last of the food was transferred from the iron kettles into great china basins, which the cook and the boy carried from the kitchen to some other part of the house. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised that all them sitting-in-one-spot ducks and gooses hadn’t been took home and cooked. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“They clean and they cook and they make babies and they all live in a big dormitory outside of town where they can’t interfere in men’s business.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Viola killed and plucked and cooked the chickens. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

So the cook and her helpers prepared hundreds of dishes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

How amazing that Weylin had sold her children and still kept her to cook his meals. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to cook our next soup with stockfish.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mama cooked the best dinner that day I ever ate. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you have been good children, and I’ll play anything you like,” says Meg, as she leads her assistant cooks upstairs, when the pudding is safely bouncing in the pot. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

"For a certainty. Perhaps I should ask this cook of yours to enter my service, what do you say?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

While Mother and I cooked meatloaf, they assembled the contents. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The nurse girl cooked a potato over the fire and ate it. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Continuing a Raj-era tradition established by expeditions of yore, every morning Chhongba and his cook boy, Tendi, came to each client’s tent to serve us steaming mugs of Sherpa tea in our sleeping bags. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

While we were cooking dinner, a young southbound thru-hiker—the first of the season—arrived. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I clomped through the kitchen on the way to washing up and said to Viola, “How come I have to learn how to sew and cook? Why? Can you tell me that? Can you?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

That’s why the food committee never asks Sister Daniels to cook for events anymore and now they ask Grandma. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

So if he takes the stand, they can use his own statements against him and he's cooked. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you wash pots out for people before you cook water in them?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have stolen vegetables from the garden I planted myself, and eaten them raw, or cooked them over a fire at night. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Exactly,” Tess said, running the white cloth over each key, spreading the strange scent of cooked flowers. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Are you saying the Indians cooked their hands in hot wax?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“But Grandpa, what happened to Mom? How come she can’t cook?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday afternoons, three of the girls in the class would go to his house where he taught them some of the mysteries of French cooking for extra credit. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she would have to go on shore to cook, but she couldn’t bring herself to face the danger. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first hot bite of freshly cooked rice, plump and nutty, makes me imagine the taste of ripe papaya although one has nothing to do with the other. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But on this day, a Saturday, a "sick day," she decided that she would cook dinner, but she wouldn't tell us what she was going to make. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

We were eating spaghetti and meatballs, only Dad had cooked, so it wasn’t very good, and the air was thick and heavy with July heat. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She didn’t run, per se, but she left the line and did a ridiculously fast walk toward the back of the store, near the clearance section, where they did their cooking classes. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

If my mother didn’t cook, we’d go to a neighbor’s house to get a plate of food in exchange for good neighborhood gossip. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She arrives at an inn and gets hired as assistant to the cook. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Sara says, “I can see how some people think that cooking is fun.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

In Idaho he worked as a valet, a cook, a chauffeur, a mechanic, a general handyman. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and one of the things Abuela would have wanted was for you and me to cook a wonderful meal together for the entire community. So, we need to plan.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But she talked to me in cooking club last week, so I mumble a quick hello. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

My mom is a great cook, but lately she hasn’t felt up to it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was cooking cow feet stew and dirty rice. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

We also learned to cook and how to stretch the food budget. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He pulled a container of cooked spaghetti from the shelf and shoveled the tangled nest into his mouth with his fingers. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I’d be doing a lot better if whoever it is they got fixing the food here knew how to cook!” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that is one way a cook celebrates the ingre-dients, by wasting as little as possible and making the most of whatever the food has to offer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She took the money she had saved—money the missionary lady paid her for cooking—and she stopped by Emma’s to tell them good-bye. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

People were busy visiting, cooking, hauling water, and taking horses to the river to drink. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The ones Mama cooked with, like sage and thyme, I recognized by the shape of their leaves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

That turtle would still he alive, kicking and trying to get away while the man was standing in the store, poring over the vegetables, buying garlics and peppers to cook it up with. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

O-lan had lain herself upon the bed after the cooking of the meal and the child lay beside her—a fat, placid child, well enough, but not so large as the first one. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My mother waited until the very last minute to cross over to Ghetto A, rushing back to our building one last time for a cooking pot, which she wrapped in a sheet. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The cooking pots bubbled on crackling red fires. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

You generally say this when someone has cooked you a meal. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

There was a blind innkeeper and his sighted wife, who was the cook, and their two young daughters, who worked as waitresses and maids. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone said it was the smell of cooking barley. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

We lived on the middle floor, stuck between cooking smells that floated up and feet sounds that drifted down. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t figured him for a deep interest in Greek cooking or French museums. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He smelt food cooking and remembered that one could not smell food cooking in Dalton’s home; pots could not be heard rattling all over the house. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Let him be king over charred bones and cooked meat," he said to a man below him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I knew it was a rude question, but a big house needs a cook and a gardener and someone to tend to the housework. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He turned it, and in this way he found a proper method to cook the bird. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You getting that for lunch,” the cook said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told the lady running it that he had a rare medical condition and couldn’t eat cooked meat so he’d like to buy a raw hamburger. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hold the pizza Mom and I picked up after cooking club out of Robin’s reach. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to serve him leftovers. I’m going to freeze this for the days I don’t have time to cook.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The cook shifted on his feet and rubbed his nose. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Too many Chinese meals cooked in a too small kitchen, too many once fragrant smells compressed onto a thin layer of invisible grease. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

While we wait for the food to cook, Mom adds in lessons on love and tells Maxine the remedy to a broken heart. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I get tired of hearing the waitresses tell the cook that the guests are complaining because the food isn’t hot enough.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

I go out to the kitchen, where my mother is cooking breakfast. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want scones? The cook made bacon, too. They’re both in the warming drawer.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

You’re lucky to have a sister that is one of the best cooks in the county—don’t ever think you’re not.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, his dad’s been in the Residence for three days without incident, and one day Alex catches him in the kitchens with two of the cooks, laughing and dumping peppers into a pot. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The smell was amazing— dozens of different kitchens cooking at once. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I could even smell China, and it was the smell of food cooking, of steam rising from so many rice bowls it hung in a mist over the land. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We high-fived each other as we approached the village market, and our stomachs growled as the smell of palm oil wafted from cooking huts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

After she finished cauterizing one nostril she took a break and cooked her hands again. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was as good as whatever Ugwu cooked, she was sure, but, except for the chalky pills, she had been unable to taste anything in so long. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The orphans called to Circe from the vegetable garden early in the morning as soon as they saw the smoke from the cook stove rising. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have got something cooking and I can’t wait to start. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

"One of the cooks cut off my tail with a carving-knife," I whispered back. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The other cooks and chefs, including Martín, were scheduled to come in a little later, so my mom and I were at the restaurant alone. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A fire burned in front of her house, and the smell of cooked rabbit filled the air. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“American cooking competition shows are nothing like that. They’re all sweaty and, like, dramatic death music and intense camera cuts,” Alex says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Pots and pans are strewn about, filled with partially cooked food. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I’d rather live in the streets than be a submissive Mexican wife who spends all day cooking and cleaning. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ella is absent because she has eloped, taking our cook, with her. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Osage come from all over to attend the dances, which provide a chance to see old family and friends and cook out and reminisce. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Maybe, maybe not. Or maybe I’d cause a flood and people would be killed. That’s the problem with big magic. I only do little magic. Good cooking, my curing soup, my Tonic.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Using these to cook in, I saved the juices of the fish which are good and were wasted before. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would lug the dripping containers back home, where my mother would cook the blood in a large saucepan, let it simmer into a thick, pasty, brownish slush. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the cook scrape the meat off the plate and slap another bit on. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Alone except for my cooks, maids, and gardeners, of course. But they all live here too, so they don’t really count as visitors.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Already cooked enough for you. See? One soup, four dishes. You don’t eat it, only have to throw it away. Wasted!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our cook found them in the market and I wanted to serve them to you, although, frankly, I detest fungi. Try them, Ella.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Red ripples dimpled the water, and the odor of cooking fires stirred on the sluggish morning breeze. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was making lunch for them—his father always, from the time he was six, let him do the cooking—when a heavy knocking came on the hut door. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She reached into her pot for a piece of cooked meat for him and this time he ate from her fingers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the kitchen my mother brought forth the succession of dishes: lentils with fried onions, green beans with coconut, fish cooked with raisins in a yogurt sauce. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Each night his mother cooked something his father had liked, but she was too upset to eat the dishes herself, and her eyes would well up as Shoba stroked her hand. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Stella had generally preferred eating the goodies rather than cooking them, but Mama’s years of gentle lessons were paying off now. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You should come to cooking club today,” I tell Micah as we walk to the cafeteria. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

There are hot tears cooking on his face, and his eyes bite. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. P., a friend of Miep’s, has been cooking his meals. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The four or five inhabitants took turns cooking for one another, went drinking together, and chased women together, without success. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told the cook that she herself would be greatly occupied during Mr. Pontellier’s absence, and she begged her to take all thought and responsibility of the larder upon her own shoulders. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about ‘He shall be cooked together with the condemned.’” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Every count whose cook added the bite of costly black pepper to his food knew he was getting a taste of far distant lands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When we leave the chapel, we find the soldiers and laborers gathered at the cook fire. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She was glad when Shay and David took her outside to the cooking fire, where a group of younger uglies hung out. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

That’s the principal trick of Congolese cooking: rubbing two leaves together to give color and taste to another day’s translucent, nutritionally blank ball of manioc. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and her father cook a pear tart and burn it by accident, and her father opens all the windows to let out the smoke, and she hears violin music rise from the street below. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"The cook saw you! What's more, she saw you eating it!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

We all crowded around the makeshift stove to smell it cook. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Food is hard enough to come by, without you wasting what I cook,” she said. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And maybe Sarah and Daniel and I should learn to cook. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, Celia cooked over a wood-burning stove when El Patron was visiting because he liked the smell of burning mesquite. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he'd usually bring something for my mother to cook—greens or a bag of chicken feet. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And a valet and a cook and a secretary to travel with you and do everything you say. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spat on his hands, then he split open the hot clay and smelled the sweet flesh of the hedgehog, which had cooked, slowly, in the embers, as he had slept. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

We sit opposite one another, Kat and I, two soldiers in shabby coats, cooking a goose in the middle of the night. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monday loved Ma’s cooking, and being sick for so long, I was sure she could use something sweet. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I missed Grandpa Ted, but Lolo and Lola comforted me with their stories and hugs, and with the dishes they cooked that made their house smell so good. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

They were started by door-to-door salesmen, short-order cooks, orphans, and dropouts, by eternal optimists looking for a piece of the next big thing. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

She was the kind of cook who would heap up your plate with such as ham hock, greens, black-eyed peas, fried fish, cabbage, sweet potatoes, grits and gravy, and combread. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cook would be offended, and perhaps go to Mrs. Danvers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We can keep the house, but we would have to let the cook go.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in Brooklyn, Big Ma wouldn’t stand for cooking without pork on a Sunday. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never fried chicken and cooked greens like my mother did; instead, she collected and made recipes from France. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was satisfied with his place at the manor, the devotion of the cook, and the friendship of Alyce. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Momma’s mad and not cooking, we have to eat Daddy’s struggle meals, like spaghetti with ketchup and hot dogs in it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And at night she cooked these orthodox dishes for Harry and her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

While these discussions go on you are to imagine me bowling along on some little road or pulled up behind a bridge, or cooking a big pot of lima beans and salt pork. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fourth cook, I knew, was just a glorified name for dishwasher, but it wouldn’t be my first time, and just as long as I traveled where I wanted, it didn’t make any difference to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even asked once if I liked her cooking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week later Mrs. Sen began cooking again. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Despite what my father said, I knew that as Safina and I got older, we’d be expected to cook and clean for our brothers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

People are cooking, eating takeaways in the streets. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

How every birthday, we cooked, ate cake, washed dishes, and stayed close like a real family. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

We have a maid who comes to our house every day to do the laundry, cooking, and cleaning. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these fragrant plants I also used in cooking to give a new taste to some not-so-good foods. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning Deborah left the assisted-living facility where she lived, and spent the day cooking and cleaning for the five or six men living in her daughter’s home. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She ran the last few yards, afraid they had gone forever—but there was the chair the woman sat in, and the cooking equipment, and everything else. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At first even the cook's huge fat kitchen cat had been able to elude her, but Syrio had kept her at it day and night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I didn’t remember the last time Ma had cooked for us. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Your cook and our cook meet at the market. She talks about you.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Doing laundry, cooking, cleaning, Mama Ya-Ya keeps teaching me every day. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s the company, not the cooking, that makes the meal.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Conor’s mum was still too tired to cook herself, and though Conor could have made something, it didn’t seem to occur to his grandma that this was even a possibility. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

So we skip the pancakes with all the cooking and measuring, and jump to the eating—by the way, sausage sandwiches are always a quadrillion times better than TV dinners, that's for sure. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

My mom wanted me to cook with her? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It never occurred to her that the woman who had cooked the dinner was also a top code breaker—and Elizebeth saw no reason to tell her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s curved like a cooking pot with a floating dot. You call it bey.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The next day we came to a village, and the people there gave our group a gourd for water, dried kernels of corn to boil for food, and a pot to cook in. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cooking isn’t as good as Mama Ya-Ya’s, but I make do. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

What they don’t say out loud, what they mean, is that time working can be time spent on other activities that they prefer, like homework and learning to cook. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It must have splintered many of the city’s wood-and-plaster buildings; fallen torches and scattered cooking fires would have ignited the debris, burning down most surviving structures. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I picture myself sitting in class, all the kids from cooking club glaring knives at me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

His little cups of fruit, of pudding, of bits of meat, both cooked and raw, continued in the icebox. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about it. Pima doesn’t cook because she’d screw it up. All muscle, no brains.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Our home has two rooms, one for cooking, one for sleeping. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

They are common injuries in the Seam where we cook and heat our homes with coal. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We watched approved documentaries, and cooked vegan cupcakes, and went for lots of walks in the park. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry about your mom. I wish she was here, too. Ma was saying how she was gonna be cooking and cracking jokes. Don’t worry. We’ll figure everything out.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

While he cooked, Lawrence talked about life down in the country. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As the stew cooked, the crackling cold inspired her to dance. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning my uncle cooked food for us over the fire, usually mutton and beans. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all I can think about is what Maddy will say when she finds out who I’m cooking with. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The mud-caked dress and shawl she carried away as soon as Lyddie shed them and plopped them directly in a pot of boiling water on the black iron cook stove. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Made without salt, spices, leavening, or preservatives, masa must be cooked within a few hours of being ground, and the tortilla should be eaten soon after it is cooked. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She stopped trying to unlock doors when she smelled cooking. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Wisely these men choose to represent themselves with useful things—knife, bottle, matches, cooking pot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The porters said that they had a good cook, but the dining car was whites only. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could speak, dance, love, hate, cook, teach, tickle, and even rock babies to sleep at night, but only if Minya let them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They sounded like words that came in a can; the freshness was cooked out of them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could tell we were getting close to Hooperville ’cause we heard somebody playing a mouth organ and the smell of food cooking was getting stronger. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It boiled streams and cooked mud and sent waterfalls disappearing into deep pits, only to reappear miles away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"Come and sit down. Supper'll be cooked in two shakes of a lamb's tail." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This sounds like a job for an engineer. Let me see what I can cook up.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“You do realize that you are cooking your hands down in that big pot?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“They want to cook you and eat you,” she said distastefully, “which is ridiculous. You’d taste terrible.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On the float in front of Washington’s shell house, Evanda May Calimar, the crew’s cook, waved a frying pan over her head, whooping and urging the boys on. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather be anywhere than at home, putting curry in plastic boxes for customers. Mama is cooking up a literal storm this week, much of it Thanksgiving-related.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He used to be a cook in the U.S. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He said, “They just told us you were coming a little while ago. I’ve told the cook to butcher a steer. Hope you like it near to raw; not much time to cook.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And as you can see, it features a stove that will cook if we light the whole thing on fire and cook hot dogs and marshmallows on sticks.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

John Zannikos asked his Mexican cook for a small salmon steak, a little rare. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We let Big Ma sit in her chair with her big Bible while we cooked. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He looks about for something to eat that doesn’t need to be cooked—ready made. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can you send them to Oakland? Oakland’s nothing but a boiling pot of trouble cooking. All them riots.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just now as I drew it to fill this ewer the cook told me.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

They went along a short corridor with doors on the right and a canteen on the left, from which came a clatter of knives and forks, and voices, and more cooking smells. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She kept her back to Toby the entire time she cooked. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The waiters stood guard over them with cooking pots. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Shug cook, talk, clean the house, talk, fix up the tree, talk, wake up in the morning, talk. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When we find the man who did this,” Lord Ramsay promised, “I will flay the skin off him, cook it crisp as crackling, and make him eat it, every bite.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The fire Nathan had started to cook dinner shone brighter than the feeble glow of the setting sun. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the middle was a cooking area with a fireplace and stew pots. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When she is not in the kitchen cooking, she is out in the greenhouse getting it in order. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I started cooking Saturday’s meal on Tuesday morning, when I made the stock and started the wild yeast culture for the bread. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They were rewarded for leaving their firesides when the Riddles’ cook arrived dramatically in their midst and announced to the suddenly silent pub that a man called Frank Bryce had just been arrested. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Great-uncle Edisto always cooked his famous corn bread and good black snap beans and corn on the cob, if it was summer. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If you believe in stereotypes, British cooks fall into two categories. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He had been teaching me how to cook, although I had yet to be allowed to touch anything he was going to serve. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

For supper they ate whatever Mutti could afford to cook that day, usually turnips and potatoes and cabbage. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

In Sunday morning I woke up to the smell of coffee land breakfast cooking. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The truck drives all day and stops only in the evening for us to cook our food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anytime Dimple kvetched about wanting to order a pepperoni pizza because she was tired of eating something Mamma was cooking, Mamma would bust out with that. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Groceries appeared in the refrigerator at regular intervals and reappeared as cooked meals on the table at mealtimes. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And, um...I can cook. And clean and dress hair,” I trail off into a whisper. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You better learn to cook something, too. Freedom gets old after a while.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we came back—long before my father came back from work—she and I began discussing Christianity while she cooked. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tariq reached to sample a morsel of veal cooked with potatoes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Maybe another time. I need to help you carry the groceries now. And maybe I can help you cook?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He’d even formed the habit of helping the caravan’s cook scrub the big soup pot out with sand. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“In fact, tonight, remind me to leave out some cooking ingredients. By morning, they will have baked us a treat.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

"See how she likes it now!" said the cook, handing the plate back to the waiter. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

By the time they had finished settling in, they could smell food cooking. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I have since learned to cook it more, but never have I enjoyed a meal as much as that one, and never have I felt so independent again. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coughing begins soon after and my lungs begin to feel as if they are actually being cooked. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I had been so focused on what I was learning that I hadn't heard my mother come in and begin cooking. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ll teach you to leave snails in the spinach!” roared the cook. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Not as cool as having a garden on your rooftop, and cooking classes.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then these two would cook at the fire, and the other war-sick would gather to eat. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I done laundry while Quincy cooked up something. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The smell of the cooked meat hung on the still evening air. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

All our camping gear—tent, bedding, cooking things. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She cooks for two full days any time Auntie Seema comes to visit. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Because that’s your mission. Your mission is to love the fighter pilot, cook good meals, police up the house, and raise superior children.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every hoot of an owl sent him into a high- pitched fit, and whenever the cooking fire hissed, he threw a bit of aca, maize beer, into the flames to appease their anger. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Gladly. I plan to fit myself into the cookhouse if I can. I’m going to tell Sarah you want me to learn how to cook for you.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d think they’d at least offer to wash up since they had nothing to do with the cooking,” she said in a low voice. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They were building a cook fire, and a legless man, who propelled himself on a little cart, was ferrying vegetables to a large stew pot. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many were there to provide various services to the men who did— doing their laundry, cooking their meals at the mess hall, selling them various sundries, disposing of their trash. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Winter’s daily routine settled into splitting firewood, carrying water from the stream, cooking, reading, and doing schoolwork. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The kind people have, an iron box in which I put a coal left over from cooking. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s buttery with carrots and raisins cooked in it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

There was the slow, fresh, saliva-stimulating smell of cooking cotton seeds. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you truly cook a singer in a stew?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Frank stared up at the northern lights, still cooking across the stars on low heat. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Yet she stayed there a year, cooking, washing dishes and pots and pans, scrubbing the floor. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t expected all this cooking and wanted to help. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

At the end, he substituted a magic cooking pot for the bus that carried them to Resthaven. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kenya’s probably cooking for herself and Lyric tonight. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Nor was she impatient with Corinthians’ undistinguished everyday cooking, for Michael-Mary ate several small plain meals. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twinkle in Grandpa’s eyes reminded me of what my father had said: “Seems like that old man can cook up more deals than anyone in the country.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom used to cook dinner every single night. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Meals are always being cooked, dishes washed, the vacuum or shower running. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Ahead she could see the thatched roofs of the homes of her people, smoky cooking fires, and a chicken or two, scratching in the dirt. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Families light cooking fires across the open air settlement. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dolorous Edd always seemed to know what was cooking. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Malcolm was impressed by that at the time, but he knew now that it was to help them cook all the way through. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mama said, chuckling as she cooked supper on our kerosene stove. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The TV is off, and the air lacks that sweet smell of Mrs. Rodriguez’s cooking. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“When I’m on deadline, I cook. Do you like mustard? Try the dipping sauce. I’ll be right back with some apple cider.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Molly has been cooking quite a bit lately, reasoning that if Dina tries some dishes that don’t have animal protein front and center, she’ll see how many more options are available. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She kissed him back, though for today all she cared was that the calculations laid before her like a nice cooked lunch should turn out digestible. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s been too long since I saw her. She was the best cook out of the three of us. I was always more interested in my studies.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

His cook, an elegant man from Cotonou, made a groundnut stew that she loved. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I think we change cooks periodically,” said Maxim, “but the standard of cooking remains the same. Mrs. Danvers has all the recipes, she tells them what to do.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me guess—your mom got insomnia again and bought that thing that cooks salmon in the microwave.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Bring in a bucket of water from the yard so that Jody can cook in the mornings.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family lived in a modest two-story house with a smaller house in the same compound, which was really just two side-by-side rooms for our cook, an everyday servant, and their families. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she recovered from the shock and managed to regain her voice, she called for the cook and pointed to the plate with a trembling finger. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were cooking implements, and a large wooden cage, currently empty, in another corner. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Each day he kept busy cooking, carving, soaking in the pond, fishing, carrying the ancestor rock, washing clothes, doing schoolwork, and cutting firewood. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Doubtless the boy was cooking inside all that heavy steel . . . but the last thing he needed was some stray arrow punching through his nephew's eye. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My mother finally went to work as a cook and left me and my brother alone in the flat each day with a loaf of bread and a pot of tea. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father has been learning to cook since I stopped eating,” Lourdes says. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s always cooking all kinds of foods, not just Korean food but Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Vietnamese, and even Russian. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“For everything you do with your brother, helpin’ your mama with the cooking and washing. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

If I got finished early in the honey house, I went to the kitchen and watched May and Rosaleen cook, but really I was there to listen to June play the cello. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cooked faster than the rest and she would let us spoon out one each. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I keep my head down, the way I used to before Mama’s cooking club started. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When she had large dinner parties, a Swedish cook was hired and the heavy work was done by the old white rummy she shared with the Goodwill Industries. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under each arm was a cooking pot; whenever the sweat came trickling down—which happened frequently, it was a hot day—I had to stop and put them down before wiping my face. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew my parents cooked nutritious food at home anyway. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was a bonus for my good cooking. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mom says, “You give me cooking lessons. Jewish apple cake, charoset for Passover, challah—the recipe and the prayers. I want to learn. Will you teach me, Nadya?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Uncle Tony had been married to Momly for forever and never knew how to cook much of nothing, which was ridiculous to me. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The dining car was closed to coloreds anyway, except, of course, for the waiters and the cooks back in the kitchen. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had been born colored, not a soul would of hired her to clean up or cook, either one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He throws a large chunk of pork and several pounds of peas with water into the cook pot. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Almost as hot as it got in the kitchen at Genie and Ernie’s house whenever Ma was, cooking. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I knew Granddaddy would be well pleased, plus it helped keep my mind off cooking and mending. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“We could take any of the maids, or cook.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stink of horse dung was heavy in the air, mingled with the woodsmoke and the smell of cooking meat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“And I’ve heard their cook excels at pastries. Don’t give their young Edward a thought. Enjoy yourself. Let your mother enjoy herself. I will direct the replacement troops here at the coffeehouse.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother was from Georgia and still cooked like it. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Their cook heats oatmeal and bacon in the hotel kitchen while the other seven take apart walls on the fourth floor with sledgehammers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I nibble on the last clump of cooked rice from my sack. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Word spread of Abuela’s talent, and soon she was cooking for private events all over town. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Okay, but don’t be late. I’m cooking dinner.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Zion cooks like a wiz. I prefer to be outside. Can’t stand the kitchen.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Empty turtle shells stood drying in the corner, and the cook’s assistant stirred the thick soup bubbling over the fire. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the potatoes are cooking, I mix eggs, tomatoes, a little onion, a sprinkle of salt, and black pepper. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Boys who hung about and eavesdropped on the men’s conversations would be called upon to perform certain tasks—slaughter chickens behind the cooking huts, chop firewood. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He felt around the table, found a knob, pulled it open, and there they were: an assortment of wooden-handled cooks’ knives, all lying ready to hand. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

"Your father loved to help me cook too," Patti tells me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Got some nerve, telling me how to cook my food.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And she said nothing but she worked at her cooking and at the washing at the pool even in the winter when the water was stiff with ice to be broken. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Everything that was cooked had to be eaten immediately, because if it was left on the table for even a few minutes, they arrived in a procession and gobbled it up. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cooking started with a can opener and ended with a microwave—blindfolded or not, it couldn’t get much worse. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

After that, Vivi found us a motel room with a stove, and we learned how to cook macaroni and cheese from the package. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I asked, peering over her shoulder to see what she was cooking. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

My mom’s relatives tended to gather at Southside’s house around the corner—drawn by my grandfather’s cooking, the ongoing games of bid whist, and the exuberant blasting of jazz. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Medium rare. Keeps it juicy and tender. If you cook it all the way through, you might as well eat shoe leather.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I rushed over to help him with the groceries and he held a finger to his lips and whispered, “Help me set some things up. I’m going to trick Nan into a cooking lesson.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“She couldn’t cook. She burned everything, including water. She had a hard time opening a can of beans. She couldn’t make head nor tail of a piece of meat. Six.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Mong claimed the wood was perfect, we cooked the hot dogs and ate and drank more. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I said I knew she was a good cook. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s changed the channel on the television, from the cooking show to Nova, which she and Malcolm both love. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

After cooking, I put them back out on the surface to freeze. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you ordered some food and I cooked it and Marlene brought it to you. Right?” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I was starving and Sarah was cooking meat—probably a stew. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

If I want chicken curry for dinner, I simply say to the cooks: Chicken curry! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s on the rag again”—a condition occasioned, in this instance, by the fact that the cook on the morning shift had forgotten to thaw out the steaks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother and the cook talked in a civil way, even joked. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They entered a dark, surprisingly clean kitchen, its walls lined with huge vats that looked better suited to laundry than cooking. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I am not cooking in my home, madam. My wife is cooking native food.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We cook it and everyone wants a taste of warm soup there. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cook had always greeted him cheerfully when he returned from the hunt, to ask whether he'd brought anything choice for the table, but he had nothing to say now. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I woke at dawn as usual, moved my blanket and sleeping bag to the cave, and ate the rest of the fish for breakfast—cold, but cooked, not so bad. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I ate the same food that was cooked for all the miners, and I had forbidden the drinking of alcoholic beverages within the mine. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at night, after Grandma cooked our dinner and cleaned up too, she sat by the bed, brushing and plaiting Mama’s hair, and singing songs so sweet my eyes filled with water. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He cooked it and I enjoyed it very much. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight while we’re eating the chicken cooked too long and rice not cooked enough, I’m missing Mama’s neckbones, gravy, and cornbread bad. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

His dad was always the cook of the family. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

One tribe even tricked us by first trading goats to us for some empty cooking oil cans we had, then sneaking up on us to steal their goats back. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using us, ordering us, and judging us: how we cook your food; how we keep your house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we grow hungry, we go to the communal cook fire. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She spent half the day cooking before the meal was finally served. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“But, sah, I am cooking the food of your country; all the food you are eating as children I cook. In fact, I’m not cooking Nigerian foods, only foreign recipe.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

What Mama usually cooked was food with lots of dumplings or rich, heavy stews. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just one more thing to add to the work of cooking and cleaning and tending the twins and trying to buy food. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The House of Gasho is a restaurant where chefs cook the food on the table right in front of you. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There would be no more standing in chow lines; now Mama had a stove to cook on. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

"American chickens are very hard. They take a long time to cook." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That fat would be turned into oil that made a rich cream for skin, and could also be used for cooking. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“A bath is an excellent idea, younger sister, and they need fresh clothes, too. Those rags can be fed to the metal worker’s furnace. I wouldn’t dare use them in a cook fire.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Maddy isn’t that bad. We’ve been friends a long time, but she’s only in one of my classes this year, so I hardly ever see her. I hope she comes back to cooking class.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She did not like the look of the ground—too many pitfalls and boiling pots and steamy depths that might cook her alive. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Before we leave the next morning, and when my brothers and sister aren’t looking, I grab some of our cooked rice and wrap it up in banana leaves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All week, I try to persuade Maddy to stay in cooking club. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Dad didn’t drive and I didn’t have a license yet, so I did more cooking and cleaning and shopping and laundry while Mom drove. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The apartment smells strongly of cooking; on the stove, a few large pieces of chicken are browning in a pan full of oil. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They’re followed by another group of men, this time with a handful of wild onions and another with a rabbit, cleaned and ready to be cooked. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was this woman’s fault, this woman that Master considered too special even for him to cook for. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I look at my clay fireplace, which I now use only for heat and cheeriness, not cooking. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light from cooking fires in derelict buildings softens the dense dark. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You're graduating from college next year; why don't you cook a meal for a change?” she points out, twisting the cap back onto her bottle of nail polish. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He built the fire and cooked the eggs. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some are cooking breakfast, others are just waking up, and many are still asleep on the side of the road or in the grass. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama scooped less rice than usual into the cook pot that night. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She allowed no one else into the house, not even a servant or a cook. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

After dark, these people settled in alleys, where they built cook fires and where they sang and danced. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was where Ralph spent his free time too, learning to cook. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But also many houses where nothing was cooking, where no one was laughing or even talking, dark rooms full of weary faces and scroungy dogs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been watching too many cooking shows,” I tell her, and laugh. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, not too far away, were human beings—his world: he could not mistake their message—or refuse their invitation—they were undoubtedly cooking something. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was cooking a soup, pouring herbs and medicines into the steaming pot. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men seemed to avoid it as they built a fire and cooked dinner, going out of their way to keep a good distance between it and themselves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Summer’s the best time for cooking outside. The smells make everyone come and talk to me. I make people happiest in summer. There’s nothing wrong with wanting that feeling to last.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She learned to cook, so that she’d have Chinese food to eat. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

One evening, Hugo and I were waiting for our cook, Anyango, to walk over with supper. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

First, the holidays came and Aibileen had to work late almost every night, wrapping presents and cooking for Elizabeth’s Christmas party. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Same cook I suppose, Maxim?” he said, when Robert had offered him the cold soufflé for the second time. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I am, perhaps, overgreedy, but I sense a good cook instinctively. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Thanksgiving Day, there’s no way Mom will let us cook in the house. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The fragrance of cooking rice wafted down the hospital hall. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me he knows how to cook all kinds of fish all kinds of different ways. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

They actually have to send a cook to one of their stores a few miles away for ingredients. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

You, though... several of my best are locked up in the queen’s dungeons thanks to that lying tongue of yours, and I doubt that you can even cook.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And now their plan was well and truly cooked. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lucky Palace had a cook, a prep cook, a busboy, and one full-time waitress, Bebe, who had started a few months before Mia. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That night her cooks roasted her a kid with dates and carrots, but Dany could only eat a bite of it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She enjoyed taking apart clocks and putting them back together again, cooking experiments, and horticulture, especially growing bonsai trees. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

These people did not look at all agricultural; she was a large, matronly woman who rather reminded me of Mrs Mortimer, the cook at Darlington Hall through much of the twenties and thirties. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Little has changed for Peralta, a cook who has worked at menial jobs in the United States for fifteen years. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We lug buckets of water from the river for cooking and washing and drinking. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He could never leave Ma and her delicious cooking; his sister, Rupa, who coddled and teased him; and Baba, who protected and provided for all of them. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the hard-packed dirt she sat as if planted there, in front of a little fire that licked at her dented cooking can. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What do you want, Weasel?" the chief cook asked when he saw her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He placed a pot of ground millet, a packet of snuff, cooking utensils, and a calabash of beer at the top. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the heat I would cook in there. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then I would pray namaz, cook something, eat, read some more, pray again, and go to bed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her cooks had promised her to serve the noble Hizdahr’s favorite meal, dog in honey, stuffed with prunes and peppers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I learned how to cook early on because I was alone so much, and I was an expert on macaroni and cheese from the box. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The pancakes could have been cooked shoes for all he could taste, and the sweet smell of the syrup was making him feel sick. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks delicious, Biddy. How did you ever learn to cook like this?” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Foods that humans cannot digest in their natural forms—such as wheat, rice and potatoes—became staples of our diet thanks to cooking. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m starving. My sister is hardly home to cook, so I’ve been living on delivery pizza and microwave popcorn.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The cook, placed upon her mettle, served a delicious repast—a luscious tenderloin broiled k point The wine tasted good; the marron glac£ seemed to be just what she wanted. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roy hadn’t thought of that detail when he was cooking up the phony story. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually when she cooked, the food had the house smelling some-kind-of-good, and they’d scheme ways to get an early spoonful of banana pudding or sneak a slice of sweet potato pie. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Smoke of the first fires seeped out through the walls of the brush houses, and the first smell of cooking corn- cakes was in the air. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When we get back, I’ll throw that boy in his mother’s cooking pot and make her watch him die!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found fresh whole wheat pasta and cooked it with turkey sausage and broccoli rabe. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I didn't tell him that I didn't know how to cook and that I'd never bought my own groceries. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She knew how to pack, just as she knew how to cook and clean and do all kinds of things no one had ever felt the need to teach Alex. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Ahead of him, prisoners thrust their cans toward the cook, who filled them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

For dinner we have the leftovers from the meal I cooked yesterday, and again, nobody thanks me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I bought some meat for my mother after asking the cook to fry it once more and then sprinkle it with spiced cabbage. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Before I could start cooking, I heard a voice and froze. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“He has married. He has someone to sew and cook for him. But I can still help him with the oxen.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am well, very well. I have been helping the wives of our umunna with the cooking.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a girl who cleans and cooks so I have a lot of stew in my freezer and jollof rice in my fridge. We can have lunch here. Would you like something to drink?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After her visit to Hopkins, Henrietta went about life as usual, cleaning and cooking for Day, their children, and the many cousins who stopped by. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mother and I held his arms while the cook sat on his good leg. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the prisoner in front of Jack held out his can, the cook eyed him and then put some thin soup from the top of the kettle in it. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom’s cooking and her hands are full of guck, but she says can Georges stay for dinner?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She cooked his meals and absorbed his barrage of complaints and said nothing in her own defense. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"Sadly your father died some years ago, Kabir. And all these years, we never knew he had a wife. Or a son. Not until the cook called us looking for your father." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“In my mother’s house the kitchen was dark and narrow, and nothing you cooked there ever had any taste or color.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

This morning the cook had refused to spare her enough water even for a decent bath. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She got up and went back to cooking, while I wandered away, bewildered. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Serenity says, “Then why don’t you learn how to cook?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our mother should have cooked real food for us—at the very least baked a chicken. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a horrible cook and never would have stood for some white lady telling her what to do all day. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Do you think we can cook it now?” she asks. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

After Henrietta’s funeral, cousins came from Clover and all over Turner Station to help cook for her family and care for the babies. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Judge Rumpff ate a few spoonfuls and pronounced the food well cooked and tasty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Sunday, I would supply vegetables to the kitchen so that they could cook a special meal for the common-law prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That he was gonna cook up a fancy supper for Mama with candles on the table and Willie Nelson on the radio and maybe she’d wear that red dress he loved so much. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“I knew how to repair those windows, and how to clean the chimney, because those sorts of things interest me. But I don’t know how to cook anything except toast.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

His mother cooks an am>i con polio and leaves the plantains warming in the oven for their dinner. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what went wrong. We both taught her over and over again, but she always messes up rice. If you can’t make rice, you can’t cook.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The cook, Morris Mulatya, dumped a sack of charcoal on the ground and built a fire, and put a metal teapot on it to heat water for tea. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nguyen’s father told her to kill, pluck, and cook one of their chickens, so everyone could have rice and a little meat. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She lived alone in a little house tucked back in the woods, not far from us, and came every day to cook, clean, and be my stand-in mother. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong could smell the sizzle of food cooking back in Mark’s restaurant. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Rabiya thinks cooked carrots are disgusting and picked them all out, but I love the way the slightly sweet rice mixes with salty ground beef kabobs and chunks of juicy chicken. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I begin cooking up some lake vine soup, boiling in a 500 ml beaker. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I had some of Mama’s Hoppin’ John, a dish of peas and rice cooked together. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They wanted to know where their bed was, what had been done with their rocking horse; and where did Joe sleep, and where had Ellen gone, and the cook? The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He covered a pot with a metal lid and rested his cooking spoon to the side. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“And he cooked dinner, and did the dishes, and took out the trash,” she went on. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

In my new house she cooked on a stove with a hot top, but no flames. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father would marry two or three more wives, who would spatter cooking oil on our bare toes and lie that we were crying for naughtiness. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I'm not gonna pretend like it wasn't amazing living in a house that always smelled like cooked sugar—which smelled like him. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Viola’s job was to cook the mountains of food; SanJuanna’s was to keep it coming. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Tellwright took one bite, made a slight grimace, put her fork down, and said, chirpily, “Well, dear, perhaps a cooking class would be in order.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I'd cook all my own food, and later on, if I wanted to get married or something, I'd meet this beautiful girl that was also a deaf-mute and we'd get married. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Seeing the men eye the plates, she remembers the story that Trujillo forces his cooks to taste his food before he eats. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The boy finished cooking and pushed the cooked bamboo, like thinly sliced pieces of yellow wood, onto a plate. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Viola can cook for my family,” I said. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They could room together, paint together, cook together. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As Thanksgiving nears, the cooking competition is all I want to talk about. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Around my house if a giant cockroach turns up someone will either tame it for a pet or cook it for dinner.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the hair as mine had been for years, conked by cooking it with lye until it lay limp, looking straight like the white man’s hair. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to cook, but I’m gonna be eating real good. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My mother told Huang Taitai I had made this dumpling especially for her, even though I had only poked its steamy sides with my finger when the cook poured it onto the serving plate. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally we’re done cooking and everything is ready to go into aluminum containers. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“They are unaccustomed to eating cooked meats,” Penelope answered, trying not to sound defensive. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She set the fish package down on the wall, where it would stay chilled until she was ready to cook it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

People were standing over them cooking hot dogs on sticks and what looked like skinned possum or some other source of protein not usually found in butcher shops. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

By shortening the intestines and decreasing their energy consumption, cooking inadvertently opened the way to the jumbo brains of Neanderthals and Sapiens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milagro itself was almost hidden in a lax bluish gauze of pinon smoke coming from all the fireplaces and cook stoves of its old adobe houses. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe had cooked it at home the night before and brought it in a milk carton. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

By six that evening, my mother was in the kitchen with Nikki, holding Shani as she cooked potato pancakes for our dinner. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s because I’m in training to be a cook. Or a wife, I guess.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I think I like that one. May our enemies be cooked with the condemned.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She was going to sell it, then use the money to buy food for the charity dinners she cooked. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Andeg returned that evening to sit just outside the circle of the outdoor cooking fire. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

His wife, Angelina, round and short-haired in a tight plaid dress, was cooking tortillas in an outdoor shed with corrugated aluminum walls. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was usually past two by the time they got out of their Sunday clothes, cooked dinner, and finally sat down to their long, lazy meal. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was all in his mind now, though, wanting to cook. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps we could find a cookbook, and read about how to cook,” Klaus said. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I burst into the kitchen and found Jeffrey doing his “cooking” thing on the floor. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just cook it and bum it, and forget it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time, Mama would sing while washing laundry or cooking dinner or any of a million chores that had to be done around the house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I did just what you showed me, and had cooked catfish for dinner. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Bobby ate every meal out—he never cooked—it was important that he live within minutes of a variety of dining establishments. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At first light blowing their fire up, they cooked their breakfast and sent their lads out, driving herds to root in the tall timber. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon, I decide to build a small fire to cook the meat, betting that dusk will help conceal the smoke and I can quench the fire by nightfall. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

"I am. And always ready for your fabulous cooking." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

While the rabbit cooks, I grind up part of a charred branch and set about camouflaging my orange pack. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

"One of the Mountain's men fell off a wallwalk last night and broke his fool neck," she heard Weese tell a cook. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Adina stacked pieces of fish on her stick and twirled it over the fire to cook them, as she’d learned to do. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The chief cook and salad master gave each other the high sign. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he was hungry he went to the icebox, or to the store, or sat down at a meal his mother cooked. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since he had never had any, one night I was going to show Richard how to cook some buffalo fish. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He described how a woman had been cooking in his tent when the killers came. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

One day, I said to him, “You know, I would like you to cook me some brown rice.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All we do at my house is cook.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

If I had stopped the night and bears had gathered to my cooking, I dare not think what would have happened. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of siphoning off food for themselves or to bribe the warders, the new cooks used all the food allotted us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cleaned the bathroom, cooked dinner, and even cut the grass. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I set a plate on the table while I tried to think of something to make without cooking. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The cook names the other things they bring: mangoes, papayas, plantains, potatoes, tobacco. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Why not think of it instead as a form of pleasurable mastery, like cooking or photography? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He has lost much weight and I wish he would eat a little of the shorwa and rice that Farzana jan cooks for him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That evening she stopped early, built a bright fire and cooked a stew, adding to it a sweet-leather lichen from the tundra. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her internal heat, the heat of anger, was cooking that accumulated carbon dioxide. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I barely have an appetite, partly because Mom’s cooking isn’t as good as Dad’s. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But Nelson had gone to get water before dark so Rachel was trying to cook all alone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On at least one occasion, the cook in question had given Bebe a ride home at the end of the night. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The women were cooking supper but all of them stopped and gathered around her, waiting for her to speak. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Probably somebody done your cooking for you, once." Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We should eat. I cooked pork chops and asparagus for dinner. It’s getting cold.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I got home from the library, my mother was cooking everything in sight. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She woke early, sometimes even before Papi, cooked the beans and rice for our supper, ironed our school uniforms and her work clothes, and bathed, powdered, and stuffed herself into her tortuous undergarments. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then he smiled again cautiously and turned back to his cooking, before adding, “Besides, he looks like you, you know. Loo.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I had been taken there as a guest, and someone said the only blacks allowed there were the cooks. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Elliot cooked extra food for me because I was only eating waffles.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Tendai smelled a cook fire and a sauce of tomatoes and onions. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The aroma from the cave really caught his attention—like beef stew cooking. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In fact, cooking probably was a turning point in human evolution. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The thought of rabbits being killed, skinned, and cooked suited her mood. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Why’d you cook it if you knew it was already dead?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cook, having heard about our bears, said this blessing: “Lawd, hep us an’ feed us, an’ keep our en’mies from us, cause some’ll come upon us, an’ take our rations from us. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I tell you what. I’m going to cut your nails extra-pointy tonight. And I promise you that someday you can have everything you want to eat. I’ll cook...spaghetti and ice cream for you!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Was that why she held so tightly to railings, why she wouldn’t cook with me watching, or change her clothes with me watching, or open doors? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s still good. Just cook it well done.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It’s funny, because a few years ago I would have hated the idea of staying in and cooking on my birthday, but now it’s perfect, it’s the way it should be. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, especially when we have to eat Dad’s cooking,” added Fadi. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t have heard what the cook said from where he was. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Tillie, the Finnish cook, was a tall, ageless, red-faced, raw- boned woman with long, snow-white hair which she balled in a knot at the nape of her neck. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was tacitly understood in the Moller family that the less one knew about his cooking methods and what he put into the food, the better for all concerned. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Folks on Stella’s side of town worked as maids and cooks, janitors and sharecropping farmers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It didn’t really get cold, but by dusk a fire was going and some stew was cooking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The Red Keep has sufficient cooks. Butchers and bakers too. You'd need to pose as a scullion." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“But he tells me you can do stuff like, cook.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The hams and the venison hung in their paper wrappings, and all the bunches of dried herbs, the spicy herbs for cooking and the bitter herbs for medicine, gave the place a dusty-spicy smell. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steep decline of these numbers over the centuries suggests that, for one of the gravest human concerns—getting murdered—- the incentives that we collectively cook up are working better and better. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

We can’t have our tea till he’s home and that’s very hard because you smell the cooking of other families in the lane. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He would have been less alarmed if Harrison had cooked with the orange itself, but to cook with the peels was like choosing the hairy skin of a goat rather than the meat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ash opened her eyes, blinking in the morning light, and saw the cook looking at her with her hands on her hips. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cook said, “If he can stay on a road he can’t get lost. You’re on Fifty-two. Cross over at St. Cloud and stay on Fifty- two.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rats, turtles, and snakes caught in our traps are not wasted as we cook and eat their brains, tails, hides, and blood. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you rather it be more difficult? I can cook up some algebraic equations if you’d like.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We went to fetch water together, and we played with empty tuna and tomato paste cans, pretending to cook and be housewives. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just asking about cooking club. It’s not like we're friends or anything.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He said eagerly, “You have spaghetti and onions. Let me cook for you.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Oh why did I have to put down that coarse, filthy sarcasm about choosing between the cook and the inquisitor? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Foods such as these, which are eaten on holidays, often preserve tastes and ways of cooking from earlier times. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It takes me a moment to realize she is talking about the cooking club. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Wasted, kwa? I will boil it well with spices and cook away the spoilage.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then Mrs. Shears came over and cooked supper for us. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Groups of young men—mostly immigrants, a few blacks—roamed the docks, looking for jobs as cooks and sailors on ships, or work as stevedores loading and unloading goods on the docks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Except that it only cooked on one side and all the juice dripped off. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What have you cooked us, my good man?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then she would bring other foods—like hash brown potatoes, bacon, and sausage—out of the refrigerator and place it all near the grill as well, ready to be cooked when an order was placed. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His nephew Tim, the cook, leans against the wall and wipes sleep from his eyes. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

As she prepares dinner, I try to finalize the edits to my oral history project, but Mom finishes cooking before I’m done. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I missed you the most this morning, when Mom cooked the special blueberry pancakes she makes at the beginning of every school year. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They skewered hot dogs on green branches, and when they were cooked wrapped them in slices of bread. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is how you and I will honor her. By cooking together.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We carried them home in pots and bags to cook in an egg soup. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course I ruled out the jolly sissies who sometimes stayed at our house and cooked whopping eight-course dinners while the perspiration made paths down their made-up faces. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the festivities, the cook from the inn makes the wedding meal. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Or,” he added, “we don’t even need to cook it. But then our breath stinks. There’s a girl promised she’d kiss me if I have sweet breath. But I think she’s teasing.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

There was a mostly thawed block of chicken on the countertop that Dad might have cooked had he stayed home that evening. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He’d been hungry, tried to heat up some food on the stove, and passed out on the couch while it was cooking. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Lily was gone, my mother was gone, Mrs. Baylor was in the kitchen cooking. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I was promised the first available Boston-to-New York fourth- cook job. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was cooking something and I could see the fire shining on her hair. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There isn’t enough coal to cook the dinner, the water isn’t boiling anymore and she says she’s demented with worry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Our bodies, from our teeth to our brains, evolved to help us hunt, cook, and eat meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They knew what they wanted, but I had no idea what to get or what the names of the foods were that the cooks were making. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They lived in one of the pickers’ cabins at first: she could smell the perch they cooked there. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He made a small fire and cooked chicken breasts and vegetables he’d thawed that day. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I figured it would save me the trouble of having to cook for myself, so I accepted. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

‘You need sleep, too. I’ll take first watch and cook some grub. Those ghosts shouldn’t be too dangerous now that the sun’s coming up.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She told me Sisi had forgotten we were away and cooked lunch for four. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And do you cook this in your home?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They should cook their first dinner in Illinois, a proper one, to mark the occasion. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sah? I can plant the herbs in a small garden. To cook more stews like this.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cleaning, decorating, and cooking proceeded around the clock. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, he found three bowls of cooked rice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“We were cooking purloined steaks and lobster we stole from the officer’s club and the mess hall,” said Kelley. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Others tended to kettles hanging over cooking fires. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I could cook in it and eat out of it and would not have to search for bowl-shaped rocks or tortoiseshells. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father seems to notice my reaction to his cooking. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found a cooked fly in my soup not long ago. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Since it was impossible to eat wild grains without first winnowing, grinding and cooking them, people who gathered these grains carried them back to their temporary campsites for processing. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Same thing, I eat the common food, always have. Growing up, my mother always cooked just regular food.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad will cook you a huge breakfast, obviously,” Taryn went on. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One morning Mami cooked our dinner, left everything ready for Gloria, dressed, and got us off to school one at a time. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The wall brought to my mind the bleeding slabs of meat Rosaleen used to cook, the gashes she made up and down them, stuffing them with pieces of wild, bitter garlic. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to him, I learned veiy quickly dozens of little things that could really ingratiate a new waiter with the cooks and bartenders. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m good on Dickens, cooking, current events, politics...let’s see, oh, and cats.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

From the kitchen came the sounds and smells of Gramma cooking. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

They ain’t pretty, but you slice off some filets, and they cook just fine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I were a teacher I would cook up some real scorchers for the children of doting parents. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cole mumbled as he returned to the fire and began cooking again. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“The life of a scythe would be dreadful if we didn’t allow ourselves the guilty pleasure of a hobby. Mine is cooking.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Park's mom was very businesslike, like someone with a cooking show on PBS. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The cooking vessels were unwashed and a blanket thrown across a chair was stained and in need of mending. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When I first told Maddy there was a South Asian cooking club, she crinkled her freckled nose and said, “No. Thank. You.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

At night, she cooked soup and sausage and pierogi on a small hot plate she’d smuggled into the dorm room. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really know how to cook, but his recipe hadn’t seemed too hard. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“We need to put cooking on your biodata,” my mom yells after me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She relented when she was cooking something like curry or a casserole, because she knew I would not even taste foods when she combined them in some disgusting way. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Overhearing this, the friend’s wife insisted on cooking Alex a big dinner, which he wolfed down, and then he fell asleep at the table. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Needing to change the subject, she asked, “How you get to be cook here?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saucepan Lynn is also a volunteer firefighter, so she cooks in her suspenders in case she has to run off. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

My husband cooked better than I did, and when I stayed home after our first baby I had to learn to cook from my black friends Susie Belton and Irene Johnson. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was in the kitchen chopping mushrooms and dill for a chicken soup she was cooking for the old ladies. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A small fire with a metal grate slid overtop where they were cooking beans in a tin pot. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

His wife, whom we called Gogo, was warm, affectionate, and a splendid cook who was liberal with her helpings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fireplace not only provided heat in winter, it was the source of light, and it was used for cooking. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Over there by the cooking fire. Be quick about it.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I worked in the kitchen at Viola’s elbow, which I think she found more aggravating than usual, as she had to cook and teach me at the same time. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The only light came from a burning wick in a tiny bowl of cooking oil. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The laughter spread up and down the benches, until even the cooks joined in. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She moved to Philadelphia and cooked for us, saving her wages to set her husband free. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inej remembered him leaving little bouquets of wild geraniums for her mother to find everywhere, in the cupboards, the camp cook pots, the sleeves of her costumes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I will the microwave to cook faster—the water’s not bubbling yet, but my stomach is. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I could no longer pay the cook and the harper, and Lynesse grew wild when I spoke of pawning her jewels. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Missus Walters said you were a real good cook.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"Maybe. My husband wasn't handsome, but he was a good man, Darnell. He loved my cooking more than you do." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much in the garden yet beyond spring onions and baby kale, but she still had some potatoes and carrots in the root cellar, and cooking had brought them back to life. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It’s like cooking: If you put in sugar and apples and oranges and lemons, when you eat it it’s going to be sweet. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Penny’s lot was even worse, since the cook had put about the notion that squeezing a dwarf girl’s breast might be just the thing to win their luck back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The first time I saw him, he was asleep in his crib during one of those dinners where Marcy cooked pasta and we all talked about books. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

One way we have overcome the bitterness of some plants is by cooking. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He let them out, then cooked and ate his solitary breakfast. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I doubted Mrs. could cook like Big Ma, but I knew she could scramble some eggs and fry bacon without burning them. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I know how to cook,” I said stoutly. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe more than wanting to cook, he was born wanting to see the future. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She made the fires that cooked their meals and heated their baths, and Minya, well, she was responsible for the ghosts, who did most of the work. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And there were advertisements for gadgets, fascinating things, for cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, furniture and beds and cribs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. I don’t think he’s going to be working in the kitchen for quite a while. Why? Are you afraid I’ll fire Mrs. Linfont and start cooking myself?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

If you treated a colored cook like you do him, she’d quit.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Mother and Granny did not have anything to cook but potatoes, three meals a day. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room smelled like cooking meat, and then like feces. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were black and the cook was white. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave Rahel a cooking ladle made of a wooden handle stuck through the polished half of a coconut shell. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I imagine that your mother is hoping you learn cookery, as well. We had to cook for ourselves, too.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Granddad's cook does the shopping and preps the meals, but the aunties plan all the menus. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Some of them were dancing, and others merely ran around cooking, as if nakedness were nothing special. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Betsy’s parents were dead, but there was an uncle in Maine who was always glad for her to come and help with the cooking. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Portia left the supper to cook on the stove and sat silently with her long hands dropping down limp between her knees. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, we don’t need to cook,” I told her. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Most livestock was shipped live to be butchered in branch houses located near the households where the meat would be cooked and eaten. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The women were cooking and I could smell onions frying already, could hear the phht-phht of a pressure cooker, music, laughter. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And one of the things that had happened was that now he loved to cook. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was a lovely cook, and when he went home at four, he would leave me supper to heat up in the microwave oven, a device that was new to me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cooked so much that the Polish girls started to call her “Mama.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The next night he might say, “Well, this is a bit better than yesterday, but far from well prepared. Mandela, you know your wife just cannot cook.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Sam cooked cornmeal mush for breakfast, Frightful came to the front of the box and scanned the skies, looking for 426. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

JimmyTrotter winked at me and said to Ma Charles, “Miss Trotter’s far from her deathbed, Auntie. She gets around and cooks plenty. I know because I eat plenty.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The cook at the Radio Grill has two other jobs. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Aunt Ivy had been reluctant to trade in her wood cookstove, I was well versed in how to use one, at least for cooking; baking was beyond me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Not those,” she said, and turned back to her cooking. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The cook glanced over her shoulder to take in the newcomer, and before she turned away there was time to see the fury in eyes that cheek fat had narrowed to gelatinous slices. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There are normally twelve girls in the house, counting the old ones, a Greek cook, and a man who is known as a watchman but who undertakes all manner of delicate and dangerous tasks. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was part of a ritual our cooks followed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Except the stove hasn’t worked in weeks. Bri’s done all the cooking in the microwave when there’s been electricity. Which there isn’t anymore, in case you hadn’t noticed.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I know somebody real good. She known for her cooking and she look after you kids too. She even got her own car to drive out to you house.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We poured a stream of the white crystals into our palms, just like Mama taught us in cooking. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was no one at home to explain the fearsome racket, but she satisfied herself that the iron cook stove had not blown up, and returned to her sweltering bedroom to continue reading and copying. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Leave supper to us. Livia's cooking up a lasagna for you guys. Halal, of course." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The thought of going right up to my paternal grandmother’s residence, sitting down at her table, and tasting her cooking more than saddened me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Since neither of us knew how to cook, baloney sandwiches replaced Mamá’s delicious taquitos. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But add either an article, as in A daughter cooked dinner, or a genitive, as in Jenny’s daughter cooked dinner, and the sentence is complete. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I poured milk Into him, let him Lick chunks of Cheese from my palms, And cooked huevo After huevo Until his purring Engine kicked in And he cuddled Up to my father’s slippers. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Mama and I cooked six tuna casseroles six different ways, and we baked four chocolate cakes and dusted them with confectioners’ sugar. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you try cooking again? You could easily snag a good job.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The group of children I lived with pooled our camp food rations and boiled them in a large metal cooking oil container we had cut in two to make a pot. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not having your dead body on my conscience,” the cook said. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the hours not devoted to cooking, cleaning, love-making, rope skipping and trying to get into the baseball game with the boys, Sissy made plans for the coming baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a hearth fire you could depend on, you could draw up to and get warm by if you were cold, or cook something on that would feed the emptiness in you. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa Joe nodded, picked up the money, and tucked it behind his cooking apron. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The murky smell of incense and ramen noodles at the landing meant Timothy Boyd was home and trying to cook. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

All those delicious goodies would cook that way for a time and then she would add the meat to the collard greens left over from last night’s dinner. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

You grew up knowing what to eat and how to cook it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“If you cook it just right, folks can’t shake the memory of it and long for another taste. That’s what brings them back.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She cleaned the house, made sure he always had a supply of clean shirts, cooked him his favorite dishes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The house was festive, and we were surrounded by the aroma of mincemeat and sweet potato pies cooking in the oven. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can hear her shower, and cook, and talk to her friends about how crazy he is. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“We’re having chicken and dumplings,” Mama beamed, “and I cooked them especially for you.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How old you?” asked the old cook with crescent-shaped eyes and night spreading his two front teeth. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She said she had “34 kittys in my cooking class and 18 kittys in my drawing class.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I was in the kitchen and had almost finished cooking. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised she’s forgiven that girl for choosing someone else as her cooking showcase partner. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When I got to Syracuse, John’s mother and sister cooked for me for the first few weeks, to welcome me to the family. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cooked dinner every night, drove herself to the supermarket, washed their clothes, put them away. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When she returned to us, she brought a lot of our belongings with her—things like clothes and cooking pots and utensils. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She'd cooked for us with care, putting broccoli and Brussels sprouts on our plates and requiring that we eat them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Most were attached to labor battalions, as cooks and stevedores, laborers and gravediggers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“The boys were hungry. I probably should’ve asked before I cooked your stuff.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“They have brought bamboo beds and cooking utensils already. And the new Director for Mobilization is coming next week.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Only later did he learn the cooking was actually done by Terryl’s roommate. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But as she turned around, Blanca could have sworn she caught a wink of complicity between her husband and the cook. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You deserve better than a cook. Better than a ditch digger.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lily pulls out a board game she’s been too cool to play since she was like ten, and the three of us play while the grown-ups finish cooking. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Chronicler quickly decided that whatever the man was cooking in the iron pot, he wanted none of it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He explained that they didn't really cook and usually fended for themselves for dinner. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But they worked there cooking, serving, and cleaning up. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Theo stood, turned to the man he was about to accuse, and saw the scene in the soup kitchen, saw Otis Amber cooking soup for the dirty, hungry men. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He did most of the cooking. And not only that, the whole evening was his idea.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I did not want them to, but the two of them did all the cook­ing, all the cleaning. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was endless work to feed our cast-iron stove just for boiling the water, let alone cooking. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s got a pretty smile, white straight teeth, but she is the worst cook I have ever seen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then, when she was firmly tied up, he went to a place nearby and began to make a fire so that he could cook the girl and eat her. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Harry was hungry enough even for Hagrid’s cooking, and took one at once. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The advent of cooking enabled humans to eat more kinds of food, to devote less time to eating, and to make do with smaller teeth and shorter intestines. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dragged the fry cook out from the kitchen to see. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mama thanked him—it was then that I realized Gran wasn’t here to cook for us in the mornings like she would before school. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You can still paint, and cook, and do all sorts of things.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was not easy, but Zannikos worked his way up to short-order cook, learning English as he went along. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The cook was as busy as the mistress and not eager to involve herself with a dirty new servant just when she was putting the meal on the table. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z