Here's what's most remarkable about Cook's appearance that day last winter: Steve Jobs wouldn't have bothered.
But unlike most early risers it was not to turn on the television to watch the remarkable Alastair Cook create another piece of history.
Eric is usually there (with sidekicks Marilu and Liv) ribbing us or making jokes as his remarkable staff cook and serve.
As one friend, a regular, tells me, Alessio is essentially a remarkable seafood cook, and if you veer away from that you may be in trouble.
In Kingsolver's capacious historical novel, Harrison Shepherd, the son of a Mexican flirt and a stolid American bureaucrat, has a remarkable life: cook for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, secretary to Trotsky, and acclaimed author denounced as a Communist by HUAC.
Cook, cook, cook, cook, cook.
It's remarkable how cooks have ignored them, even in the region where the tomato was first eaten.
Two Basques -- Andoni Luis Aduriz of Mugaritz and Isaac Salaberria of Fagollaga -- struck me as most impressive, but I also had several remarkable meals cooked by young chefs in Barcelona.
But parents (or "mums", if the BFF insists) are still, to a remarkable degree, cooking what was cooked for them.
Harold McGee, for instance, discovered that the practice of whisking egg whites in copper bowls takes advantage of the fact that copper ions have a stabilizing effect on the resultant foam — a remarkable thing for cooks to have figured out by the eighteenth century.
