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Healthy Eating Ideas
Posted on 14 March 2024
What we eat is one of the most, maybe even the single most important personal choice we can make for our health – both mental and physical. With the right food, we can help ourselves feel great and live a longer, healthier life. But what is the right food? As the new year brings diet madness – “Eat this! Don’t eat that! Actually, we’ve changed our minds, do eat this!” - it can be hard to work out what the heckles we should be doing. We’ve summarised some of what we consider to be the most important healthy eating strategies of 2024 and paired that with some delicious recipes to help us want to eat what’s good for us, as healthy food is only healthy if it gets eaten.
The power of B Corp...
Posted on 14 March 2024
Back in 2010, COOK had an identity problem. People thought we were crazy and we didn’t have a way to explain why we weren’t. Then, on a trip to the US, we found the B Corp movement: the biggest idea in micro-economics in generations.
Leading the Way
Posted on 14 March 2024
For International Women’s Day, we caught up with Lucy and Jennifer, two inspiring, young dairy farmers who work with Barber’s in Somerset, where we get all our Cheddar. They are both part of the Barber’s Steering Group, elected representatives that help in the evolution of Barber’s relationship with their 150 farmers.
Random Acts Of Kindness
Posted on 16 February 2024
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies … you’ve got to be kind.” - Kurt Vonnegut
Download COOK January Menu
Posted on 4 January 2024
A new menu has landed at COOK! If you can't get to your local COOK shop for a physical copy, you can download the whole thing by clicking the button below.
50 Uses of Ham
Posted on 14 December 2023
Ding dong! That is one serious ham. Big, isn’t it? But so versatile.
Here’s 50 reasons why you’ll be needing one over Christmas. Yes, 50. Count them. Ready?
Life is Sweets
Posted on 30 November 2023
Puddings are a big part of COOK, in fact it could be said that the idea for COOK was borne out of a pudding. Ed and Rosie, who run the business, are brother and sister; their parents, Andrew and Anne, used to run their own small bakery. Their handmade frozen cakes were so popular that Ed started wondering why no-one was making savoury meals in the same way. He persuaded one of his favourite clients, Dale, to quit his job and join him. Even though the original name has changed from the rather prosaic Cakes & Casseroles to COOK, the business’ founding statement remains the same to this day: “To use the same ingredients and techniques a good cook would use at home, so everything looks and tastes homemade.”
Knife Angel
Posted on 17 November 2023
The Cost of Violence
The Knife Angel is quite unlike any other sculpture in Britain. It was created in 2018 by the artist Alfie Bradley and the British Ironworks Centre out of 100,000 knives, either seized by police or handed in during an amnesty. It tours the UK to highlight to young people the terrible cost that violence has on their communities.
Canape Calculator
Posted on 16 November 2023
If you’re serving up canapés at your Christmas or New Year’s party, here’s a good rule of thumb: For pre-dinner drinks, you’ll need four per person per hour; For a drinks party, up that to six.
Click below to watch a video of our chef George presenting our new canapés and how he likes to serve them.
A Visit to Barber’s
Posted on 7 November 2023
Cheddar cheese is the world’s second most popular cheese … “Only second?” I hear you cry. Yes, the growing global appetite for pizza has just pushed mozzarella ahead but at COOK, Cheddar is King. And we couldn’t be prouder of where we get ours from.
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- Leading the Way
- The power of B Corp...
- Healthy Eating Ideas
- Random Acts Of Kindness
- Download COOK January Menu
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