On Cook & Cooking
Cook can be many  a  thing. Cook can be a name, such as in Captain James Cook (1728 -79), British navigator and explorer. He went on expeditions to S. Pacific, Australia and New Zealand. There are many places in that part of the world named after him.

Cook Strait, a strait between N. and S. islands in New Zealand, is one such place, another being Mount Cook, mountain in New Zealand, on South Island ( 12,349 feet = approx 4,200 m).

Now cooking as most of us know it, has to do with preparing food by the action of heat, or to subject anything to the action of heat. This should be a definition which is true in most instances.

Cooking is also found in the word  cooking-range, meaning stove on which you cook.

Cook can be the one who prepares the meals, whose occupation it is to cook and prepare food for the table. However, the French word "chef" (=male head cook) is used quite frequently, especially so in the U.S. Note that the Swedish word "chef" has absolutely nothing to do with the English "chef" and don't confuse it with the mechanical and nautical term "chief". The Swedish word "chef" is more closely related to "chief" as in Indian Chief.

Cook can also be found in the word cook-house which is a nautical term referring to the ship's galley. A cook-shop, originally cook's shop, is an older expression meaning an eating-house. This almost sounds like Swenglish, which it is not.

When a new restaurant is built, one can sometimes see ads, saying things like  "We've cooked up a new location" meaning they've built and designed a new place, including  e.g.  an "All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Court" where you help yourself. Doesn't  this make you hungry ?

"Some falsified printed accounts, artfully cooked up." (by Smollett)

"We cooked up a bill for that purpose."  (by Chesterfield)

You hear cook and cooking frequently in old blues and love songs, e.g.

The fact is of course, as food and food-related words are all something positive, favorable, and nice to us, so are love, food and language basically.

A cooker is a stove. Cooker is primarily used in Great Britain, including of course some of the old colonies.

A cooker can also mean a vessel in which food is cooked. Sometimes  there's also been a fruit etc. that cooks well  referred to as a cooker.

Cookery is the art of cooking So is the practice of cooking, cookery.

Cookery can also be the product of the cook's art, and it could also be a place for cooking, a kitchen.

You are so cookish meaning you are so much like a cook. This is a rather rare expression.

A cookie in Scotland means a baker's plain bun, and in the U.S.A. it is a small flat cake, with or without sweetening. Please, take your time and look into biscuits and cookies.  

A bun could be what you put your hotdog into, apart from what can be found in saucy remarks and various other references not mentioned here.

Together with a cup of coffee, or a cup of tea, it will make wonderful conversation during breaks, just like discussing the difference in the way "cucumber" is dealt with in English compared to in Scandinavian languages. Once you've cut a cucumber it isn't a cucumber any longer, in English that is. Try to find a simple item such as "saltgurka", outside Sweden, and you will realize what I mean. Good luck to you, and enjoy your meal!

...och vad säger du om den gula löken utanför Sverige?

Whoever heard of a yellow onion?

Fortunately, some of us remember Booker T & the MGs (Green Onions).

Ever heard of Sam Cooke?

If not, it's about time...

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