11.   Cook as in the Vegetarian Rice Noodles With Basil recipes on this page.

12.   Do not eat refrigerated smoked seafood, such as salmon or trout, unless it will be cooked as part of a dish such as a casserole.

13.   Grilling chores at cookouts are most often performed by Dad, who at other times keeps as far away from cooking as possible.

14.   He describes his cooking as casual, local Hawaiian style and believes in making it simple, using the freshest ingredients available.

15.   He disdains those critics who mock some elements of fusion cooking as trendy or pretentious and lacking in the codified traditions of, say, French cuisine.

16.   Heat until butter foam subsides and then cook as above.

17.   His site says he began cooking as a way to relieve stress built up after a day in a Wall Street office.

18.   I am amazed that, given the number of diners, each dish arrives cooked exactly as specified and, when appropriate, still hot.

19.   It is the same kind of cooking as in her cookbooks.

20.   It was the first time it occurred to me that cooking as a profession might be as cool as being a hired assassin or the new fifth Beatle.