Sentence examples for formidable cook from inspiring English sources
He is a formidable cook who will whip up a whole roast pig for a casual lunch.
She was one of TV's first celebrity chefs and remains one of the most famous, flamboyant and formidable cooks ever to grace the small screen.
Directed by Christian Vincent, who also wrote the script, it's based on the experience of Danièle Mazet-Delpeuch, a formidable farmhouse cook from Périgord who was French President François Mitterrand's private cook during the late '80s in the Elysée Palace.
Cook, cook, cook, cook, cook.
Had it been up to "those silly men at Houghton Mifflin," as she describes the publisher who rejected the manuscript of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" as being "formidable to the housewife," American cooks might still be chained to back-of-the-box recipes and canned vegetables.
Meanwhile, the New York Times' formidable Maureen Dowd was asking "Is Rice cooked?" in her op-ed column, stating: "Some have wondered if Rice, who has a bull-in-a-china-shop reputation, is diplomatic enough for the top diplomatic job".
On one side the Culinary Union, representing Lawrence and 55,000 other casino cooks, bell hops and chambermaids, is investing its formidable organisational power in a get-out-the-vote drive for President Barack Obama.
But formidable obstacles remain.
The foes were formidable.
