The cook ladled the burgoo into Sharpe's cauldron and Jem opened the forecastle door for Sharpe who almost collided with Pohlmann's servant, the elderly man who had been so relaxed on his master's sofa on the first night Sharpe had visited the cabin.

The stew a cook with a dragon tattoo on his forearm ladled into his tin bowl wasn't anything over which a gourmet back in Trapani would have gone into ecstasies, but it was a-lot better than anything he and his pals could have come up with by themselves.

In the storage room the cook ladled pilgrim-pod from a sack.

Big King nodded and the cook ladled about two litres of steaming sugar beans into the bowl, before passing on to the next bin where he again looked for and obtained Big King's approval.

A cook ladled bits of turnip and parsnip and chunks of meat into his mess tin.

"I'll tell you one thing: my wife cannot do it right," the colonel confides as the cook ladles him a glutinous second helping.

Sixty-two cooks from around the nation brought their favorite pans, woks and ladles here last week in search of the title of best beef cook in the nation and the $15,000 grand prize.

The cook was ladling seasonings on the carcass, swearing at having to offer so poor a meal to so many guests, and some of them high-rank.

A cook ladled stew and peas and potatoes on to my plate.