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part chemist, part general, fully running on tasting spoons and pure spite.
means To prepare food by applying heat — or, as a noun, the person who does the preparing.
from From Old English 'cōc,' borrowed early from Latin 'coquus' (a cook), itself from the verb 'coquere,' to cook or ripen. That same Latin root simmers quietly inside 'kitchen,' 'cuisine,' 'biscuit' (twice-cooked), and even 'precocious' (literally 'cooked too early'). It's a Germanic-Latin loanword so old it arrived before English had its own word for the job — proof that someone has been minding the pot since the very beginning.
- origin
- From Latin coquus, sharing roots with kitchen and biscuit
- heat law
- Maillard browning starts around 285 degrees Fahrenheit
- brain hack
- Cooking food gave humans calories to grow big brains
- pressure
- Restaurant lines run hotter than most corporate jobs
julia child — french chef and tv personality who revolutionized american cooking with 'the french chef' starting in 1963
gordon ramsay — british chef with 16 michelin stars who hosts hell's kitchen and masterchef
thomas keller — chef and owner of the french laundry in napa valley, one of the world's most acclaimed restaurants