Cook or The Cook may refer to:

Food preparation

Cooking Cooking, also known as cookery or professionally as the culinary arts, is the art, science and craft of using heat to make food more palatable, digestible, nutritious, or Food safety, safe. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely, from ...

, 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 physica ...

, a household staff member who prepares food *

Cook (profession) A cook is a professional individual who prepares items for consumption in the food industry, especially in settings such as restaurants. A cook is sometimes referred to as a chef, although in the Culinary arts, culinary world, the terms are not int ...

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

Chef A chef is a professional Cook (profession), cook and tradesperson who is proficient in all aspects of outline of food preparation, food preparation, often focusing on a particular cuisine. The word "chef" is derived from the term (), the di ...

, a professional proficient in all aspects of food preparation

Geography

U.S.

* Cook, Minnesota, a city * Cook, Nebraska, a village * Cook, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Cook Hollow, Oregon County, Missouri *

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

, off the Gulf of Alaska

Australia

* Cook, South Australia * Cook County, New South Wales * Cook, Australian Capital Territory *

Division of Cook The Division of Cook is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the States and territories of Australia, State of New South Wales. History Cook was created in 1969, mostly out of the Liberal ...

, an Australian House of Representatives electoral district * Electoral district of Cook, a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district *

Shire of Cook The Shire of Cook (The Shire) is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia. The Shire covers most of the eastern and central parts of Cape York Peninsula, the most northerly section of the Australian mainland. It covers an area ...

, in the far north of Queensland

Elsewhere

* Cook Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada *

Cook Strait Cook Strait () is a strait that separates the North Island, 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, ...

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

Companies

* Cook Group, 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, 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 — and ...

, 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), a crater on Earth's Moon * Cook (dog) (2000–2016), a Spanish dog actor * Cook (surname) * ''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 * An unintended solution in chess problems; see

Glossary of chess problems This glossary of chess problems explains commonly used terms in chess problems, in alphabetical order. For a list of unorthodox pieces used in chess problems, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms used in chess is general, see Glossary of che ...