Cook (domestic worker)
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A cook or private chef is a household staff member responsible for food preparation.
1855 Illustration of a "Disgruntled Cook"
Great house
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A great house is a large house or mansion with luxurious appointments and great retinues of indoor and outdoor staff. The term is used mainly historically, especially of properties at the turn of the
Cook (domestic worker)
…A cook or private chef is a household staff member responsible for food preparation. The term can refer to the head of kitchen staff in a great house or to the cook-housekeeper, a far less prestigious position involving more physical labour. The cook in an English great house was traditionally female…
Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire is the largest great house in the United Kingdom.
Longleat House in Wiltshire, the seat of the Marquesses of Bath
Rose Hall, a great house in Jamaica