Cook or The Cook may refer to:

Food preparation

Cooking Cooking, cookery, or culinary arts is the art, science and craft of using heat to Outline of food preparation, prepare food for consumption. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric ...

, the preparation of food *

Cook (domestic worker) A cook or private chef is a household staff member responsible for food preparation. Description The term can refer to the head of kitchen staff in a great house or to the cook-housekeeper, a far less prestigious position involving more physical ...

, a household staff member who prepares food *

Cook (professional) Cook or The Cook may refer to: Food preparation * Cooking, the preparation of food * Cook (domestic worker), a household staff member who prepares food * Cook (professional), an individual who prepares food for consumption in the food industry * ...

, an individual who prepares food for consumption in the food industry *

Chef A chef is a trained professional cook and tradesman who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation, often focusing on a particular cuisine. The word "chef" is derived from the term ''chef de cuisine'' (), the director or head of a kitche ...

, a professional proficient in all aspects of food preparation

Geography

U.S.

Cook, Minnesota Cook is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 515 at the 2010 census. U.S. Highway 53 and State Highway 1 (MN 1) are the two main routes through the city. Cook serves as the gateway to the western half o ...

, a city *

Cook, Nebraska Cook is a village in Johnson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 323 at the 2020 census. History Cook was founded in 1888 when the Missouri Pacific Railroad was extended to that point. It was named for Andrew Cook, the original o ...

, a village *

Cook, Ohio Cook is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Madison Township, Fayette County, Ohio, Madison Township, Fayette County, Ohio, Fayette County, Ohio, United States. It is located at , along Cook-Yankeetown Road (Fayette County Highway ...

, an unincorporated community * Cook Hill (disambiguation) * Cook Hollow, Oregon County, Missouri *

Cook Inlet Cook Inlet ( tfn, Tikahtnu; Sugpiaq: ''Cungaaciq'') stretches from the Gulf of Alaska to Anchorage in south-central Alaska. Cook Inlet branches into the Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm at its northern end, almost surrounding Anchorage. On its sou ...

, off the Gulf of Alaska

Australia

Cook, South Australia Cook is a railway station and crossing loop located in the Australian state of South Australia on the Trans-Australian Railway. It is about west by rail from Port Augusta and about north of the Eyre Highway via an unsealed road.(1927)''Trav ...

Cook County, New South Wales Cook County was one of the original Nineteen Counties in New South Wales and is now one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It includes the area to the west of Sydney in the Blue Mountains (Australia), Blue Mountains, between the ...

Cook, Australian Capital Territory Cook ( postcode: 2614) is a suburb of the Belconnen district of Canberra, located within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. At the , Cook had a population of 2,965 people. The suburb of Cook is named after Captain James Cook and th ...

Elsewhere

Cook Peninsula The Cook Peninsula is located on the eastern coast of Ellesmere Island, a part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. North of Princess Marie Bay, it stretches eastward into Nares Strait. The peninsula is approximately in ...

, Nunavut, Canada *

Cook Strait Cook Strait ( mi, Te Moana-o-Raukawa) separates the North and South Islands of New Zealand. The strait connects the Tasman Sea on the northwest with the South Pacific Ocean on the southeast. It is wide at its narrowest point,McLintock, A H, ...

, the strait separating the North and South Islands of New Zealand

Companies

Cook Group Cook Group Incorporated is an American privately held company based in Bloomington, Indiana, and primarily involved in manufacturing of medical devices. It was ranked #324 in Forbes' 2008 America's Largest Private Companies. It has four main divisi ...

, an American manufacturer of medical devices *

Cook Records Cook Records was a record label founded by Emory Cook (1913–2002), an audio engineer and inventor. From 1952 to 1966, Cook used his Sounds of our Times and Cook Laboratories record labels to demonstrate his philosophy about sound, recording equipm ...

, an American record label *

Cook Trading COOK (officially Cook Trading Ltd) is a manufacturer and retailer of frozen ready meals, established in 1997 and based in Sittingbourne, and founded in 1997 by Edward Perry and Dale Penfold. Their founding statement was 'to cook using the same in ...

, a UK manufacturer and retailer of frozen ready meals *

Thomas Cook Group Thomas Cook Group plc was a global travel group, headquartered in the United Kingdom and listed on the London Stock Exchange from its formation on 19 June 2007 by the merger of Thomas Cook AG — successor to Thomas Cook & Son — an ...

, a defunct British travel company

Film

* ''The Cook'', a 1917 animated Krazy Kat film * ''The Cook'' (1918 film), an American comedy film by Fatty Arbuckle, with Buster Keaton * ''The Cook'' (1965 film), a Soviet comedy film

Other

Cook (crater) Cook is a lunar impact crater that lies in the western part of the Mare Fecunditatis, just to the southeast of the prominent crater Colombo. To the southwest is Monge. The interior of this crater has been flooded with lava, leaving only a low rim ...

, a crater on Earth's Moon *

Cook (dog) Cook (11 November 2000 – 19 May 2016) was a Jack Russell Terrier dog actor known for his role as Pancho in the advertisement of Lotería Primitiva of Spain, in which he earned 500 euros per day of shooting. Biography He was born in Castel ...

(2000–2016), a Spanish dog actor *

Cook (surname) Cook is an occupational surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname include: A * Aaron Cook (disambiguation), multiple people * Adam Cook (disambiguation), multiple people *A. J. Cook (born 1978), Canadian actress *A. J. Cook ( ...

* ''Cook'' codec, a lossy audio compression codec developed by RealNetworks * USS ''Cook'', two ships of the U.S. Navy * ''The Cook'' (Arcimboldo), a c. 1570 painting by Giuseppe Arcimboldo *

Division of Cook The Division of Cook is an Australian electoral division in the State of New South Wales. History Cook was created in 1969, mostly out of the Liberal-leaning areas of neighbouring Hughes. It was thus a natural choice for that seat's one-ter ...

, an Australian House of Representatives electoral district *

Electoral district of Cook Cook is an electoral district in Queensland, Australia. Cook covers the vast Cape York Peninsula north of Cairns, including the resort town of Port Douglas and the Torres Strait Islands. It is named after British navigator James Cook, who ch ...

, a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district