Cook vs. Cooke — What's the Difference?

To prepare (food) for eating by applying heat.

Cooke is a surname, derived from the occupation of cook. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Cooke (died 1614), English actor Alfred Tyrone Cooke, of the Indo-Pakistani wars Alistair Cooke KBE (1908–2004), journalist and broadcaster Amos Starr Cooke (1810–1871), found of Royal School and Castle & Cooke in Hawaii Anna Rice Cooke (1853–1934), patron of the arts and founder of the Honolulu Academy of Arts Anthony Cooke (1505–1576), British scholar Baden Cooke (born 1978), Australian cyclist Barrie Cooke (born 1931), Irish painter Bates Cooke, US Representative 1831–1833, and NY State Comptroller 1839–1841 Benjamin Cooke (1734–1793), British musician Beryl Cooke (1906–2001), British actress C. R. Cooke (Conrad Reginald Cooke, 1901–1996), English early Himalayan mountaineer Charles Cooke (disambiguation), several people Chauncey H. Cooke (1846–1919), American soldier in the U.S. Civil War Christian Cooke (born 1986), English actor Clarence Hyde Cooke (1876–1944), businessman in Hawaii Dave Cooke, Canadian politician Denise D'Ascenzo Cooke (1958–2019), American news anchor Deryck Cooke (1919–1975), British musicologist Doc Cook (Charles L. Cooke, 1891–1958), jazz bandleader Dusty Cooke (1907–1987), American professional baseball player Edmund F. Cooke (1885–1967), US congressman from New York Edward William Cooke (1811–1880), English maritime artist Eric Edgar Cooke, murderer Francis Cooke, Passenger on the Mayflower Francis Judd Cooke (1910–1995), American composer Geoff Cooke (disambiguation), several people George Cooke (disambiguation), several people H. Basil S. Cooke (1915–2018), Canadian paleontologist Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikkim Jack Kent Cooke (1912–1997), Canadian entrepreneur Sir James Douglas Cooke (1879–1949), MP for Hammersmith South James J. Cooke, American historian, author, academic and soldier James W. Cooke, American naval officer Janet Cooke (born 1954), American journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated story Jay Cooke (1821–1905), American financier, notable for financing Union effort in Civil War and Northern Pacific Railway Jennifer Cooke, actress John Cooke (disambiguation), several people Joseph Platt Cooke (1730–1816), in American Revolutionary War Keith Cooke, actor L. J. Cooke (Louis Joseph Cooke, 1868–1943), first men's basketball coach at the University of Minnesota Lawrence H. Cooke (1914–2000), Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals 1979–1984 Logan Cooke (born 1995), American football player Lorrin A. Cooke (1831–1902), American politician, governor of Connecticut Martin Cooke (disambiguation), several people Matt Cooke, hockey player Mel Cooke (1934–2013), New Zealand rugby league footballer Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825–1914), British botanist Nathaniel Cooke (19th century), designer of the standard set of chess figures Nelson Cooke (1919–2018), Australian cellist Nicole Cooke (born 1983), British cyclist Peter Cooke (Scouting) Philip St.

To prepare or treat by heating

United States journalist (born in England in 1908)

(Slang) To alter or falsify so as to make a more favorable impression; doctor

United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905)

To prepare food for eating by applying heat.

To undergo application of heat especially for the purpose of later ingestion.

(Slang) To happen, develop, or take place

(Slang) To proceed or perform very well

A person who prepares food for eating.

(cooking) A person who prepares food.

(cooking) The head cook of a manor house.

(cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.

(slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

(slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.

(intransitive) To be cooked.

To be uncomfortably hot.

(slang) To execute by electric chair.

To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.

To concoct or prepare.

To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)

To play music vigorously.

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

To throw.

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

To throw.

To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; - often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.

To prepare food for the table.

One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

A fish, the European striped wrasse.

Someone who cooks food

English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

Prepare a hot meal;

Prepare for eating by applying heat;

Transform and make suitable for consumption by heating;

Transform by heating;

Fake or falsify;