Here the Empress Elizabeth occasionally spent the brief summer days, amusing herself, as we were told, by cooking her own dinner.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
I'm liable to feel, insulted if you pass up my cooking this way.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
His food requires neither salt nor sugar, nor is cooking a matter of necessity.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook