Sentence examples for had once cooked from inspiring English sources

I had once cooked for a family, too, for a little more than a year while I was in France.

Magid had contacted the family in 2014, inviting them to an extravagant dinner prepared by chefs who had once cooked for Barragán himself, in order to ask for their permission to exhume the ashes.

Viktor had graduated top of his class in culinary school and worked in Praga, the most prestigious Soviet restaurant of its day, alongside octogenarian chefs who had once cooked for the Tsar.

Meanwhile her proud boast to have once cooked a banquet for the late king provides a straight path back to calmer, happier times when no one would have considered dragging a gentleman, let alone a monarch, from his own table.

Francesca Simon confesses to having once cooked fudge with salt instead of sugar (sounds like a Horrid Henry plot) and from Simon Schama's repertoire comes a cheese soufflé that stands up to a day of writing and teaching, and delights his audience of "nature's little conservatives" — children.

A further letter to the Providence Journal stated that a retired English sailor was conducting guided tours of a hulk on the River Thames as late as 1825, claiming that the ship had once been Cook's Endeavour.

Sookie St. James had once tried to cook a staff meal back at the Dragonfly Inn after the lottery, but never repeated the attempt.

He had once worked as a cook, so putting a meal together was no great hardship.

Hunter lived almost all of her 101 years on a plantation outside Natchitoches, La., where she had once worked as a cook, housekeeper and, in her early years, as a field hand.

"She had once been a very good cook, and was particular about food," said Ms. Lowell.

But it's true that my culinary skills deteriorated precipitously while I was living with my former lover, a fabulous cook who had once prepared dinner for the mayor of Bologna and who took over the kitchen the minute he moved in.