Hereabouts we do not give them such high-sounding names as you apply to them, we call them hashes or stews.

Ofatulena, the wife of my villa-farm bailiff, devised them and prepared them.

She is famous hereabouts for her cooking." "What," cried Tanno, "a woman cook! Never saw a woman cook, never heard of one, never read of one.

Egypt, Babylonia, Lydia, Persia, Greece and Italy, all cooks have always been men.

I ought to know all about cookery, what with my library on cookery and my travels to all the cities famous for cookery.