Stories
- Article
The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
- Article
The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
- Article
Busting myths about turkey-baster babies
The popular idea of sex-free, turkey-baster-led conception has been around since the 1970s. Christine Ro goes beyond the utensils drawer to find out if it’s ever really happened.
- Book extract
Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Catherine Marsh to the Cooks
Date: 1 Aug c.1910(?)Reference: PP/COO/F/12Part of: Cook, Sir Albert Ruskin (1870-1951) and Cook, Lady Katharine (1863-1938)- Digital Images
- Online
Members of the United Cooks' Society preparing plum pudding.
- Books
Keep them out of prison / [Roy Arthur French Cooks].
Cooks, R. A. F. (Roy Arthur French), 1916-Date: [1958]- Books
Cook's suet : recipes / [Donald Cook & Son, Ltd].
Donald Cook & Son, Ltd.Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Ephemera
Cook's pure soaps / Edward Cook & Co., Ltd.
Edward Cook & Co.Date: [1910?]