head-cook

Fancy a charming dinner, in a charming room, and the head-cook, concerned for the honour of every dish, superintending in his clean white jacket and cap.

Mugby Junction 2007

Fancy a charming dinner, in a charming room, and the head-cook, concerned for the honour of every dish, superintending in his clean white jacket and cap.

Mugby Junction 2007

Court taste, remained in fashion, and are included in receipt-books, even in that published by Joseph Cooper, who had been head-cook to Charles I, and who styles his 1654 volume

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

The head-cook was to have a little apartment, where he could prepare condiments and dressings; and a sink was to be provided for the viscera and other offal of poultry.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

A few days of polite skirmishing with Madame Vionnet, the head-cook, had left it clear who was in charge of the household, and it wasn't me.

Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

The head-cook was beating the eggs in a great yellow bowl.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

Rich proprietors, who keep a head-cook, a roaster, a pastry-cook, and two or three assistant-cooks, would perhaps despise so moderate a repast; but from a little manual of cookery which

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

When she reached the palace, she rushed breathlessly into the kitchen and said to the head-cook:

Roumanian Fairy Tales Various

If it would hardly produce so dire an effect on a head-cook, it certainly gave supreme satisfaction to the partakers; for in the tin kitchen, which seemed to prying Molly like some Fortunatus box, was a dear little pot of baked beans, some steaming rolls, and potatoes baked in their jackets, while from a cooler place came a dainty glass of jam, and some cake.

Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry

Was it Nitouche, the head-cook, who was grumbling because the kitchen-wench had not scoured the brass saucepans to the last point of mirrory brightness?

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd