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THE COOK’S PORTRAIT..
Starts out good, but gets disgusting. He has
fairly decent dishes he makes, and cooking
techniques: he can cook a chicken in spices,
stew, or pie. He knows his London Ale (I’m
assuming this is what he drinks all the time..)
The cook does not run a sanitary kitchen. He
has a gaping, puss-oozing wound on his leg,
which makes them not want to eat anything he
cooks, no matter how good it may be. There are
also a lot of flies loose in his kitchen, and
needless to say, he has given many pilgrims
food poisoning. The Host says the Cook sells
meat-pies regularly.
THE COOK’S TALE
The story starts telling of an apprentice named
Perkyn who is fond of drinking and dancing. Perkyn
is released by his master and moves in with a friend
who also loves to drink, whose wife is a prostitute.
This tale was supposedly “deliberately
unfinished” by Chaucer. Scholars say he meant to
“rewrite” the tale for the Cook.