"It was my training," he said while chopping leeks at lightning speed.

Folrig busied himself chopping leeks and white turnips into a cauldron, eyeing Sunflash's hornbeam limb as he did.

At midnight she was still outside, chopping leeks.

Mrs. Earnshaw and her helpers labored across the room, chopping lamb and leeks for dinner.

A close cousin, which came hot from the oven on my most recent visit, was a big ball of pillowy steamed bread dough filled with egg, glass noodle, chopped Chinese leeks and tiny dried shrimp.

She was sitting on a tall wooden stool with a cleaver in her hand, chopping leeks.

"I grew up in a family that loved good food, but I was the one who really liked to cook," she said while quickly getting down to business by chopping onions, carrots and leeks for a vegetable soup.