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A **cook**, or Template:Nihongo, is an individual skilled in preparing raw foodstuffs for consumption.

Since their skills are needed for virtually any enterprise, cooks may be found among pirates and other criminals, law enforcers such as the Marines, or any number of civilian establishments.

## Overview

While basic cooking skills are common to most past adolescence, those specifically recognized as *cooks* are generally more skilled than the average, and may have professional training. As part of an organization or business, cooks are expected to provide most if not all meals, regardless of who else might possess cooking skills.Template:Qref

Since most of the world consists of ocean, Template:Nihongo that primarily serve aboard ships are highly prominent. In addition to standard duties, these cooks are expected to efficiently ration and use a ship's limited resources during voyages, and maintain nutrition for the entire crew.Template:Qref If the ship frequently explores new areas, they may also analyze and catalogue which plants and animals are safe to eat (particularly on the Grand Line, where even the most innocuous-seeming species can harbor deadly poison).Template:Qref

Given the general unpredictability of sea travel, experienced cooks tend to look down on those who waste or mistreat food, and are often reluctant to throw away any food materials that have not become genuinely, dangerously inedible.

### Head Chef

A Template:Nihongo is the leader of a group of chefs in a single establishment. They are in charge of the other cooks within the organization, having the highest authority within its kitchen. Head chefs normally have exceptional culinary skills which are far superior to the cooking skills of normal chefs.

Known head chefs are Zeff of Baratie,Template:Qref Thatch of the fourth division of the Whitebeard Pirates,Template:Qref Cosette of the Germa Kingdom,Template:Qref the WCI 31 of Whole Cake IslandTemplate:Qref and non-canonically Jessica of G-8.Template:Qref

Large scale institutions with multiple kitchens can also have multiple head chefs, as seen with the WCI 31, consisting of the thirty-one head chefs of Whole Cake Island.Template:Qref

#### Executive Chef

An Template:Nihongo is a rank that may be assigned to a chef who oversees everything in cases where an organization has multiple head chefs. The only known executive chef in the series is Streusen of the Big Mom Pirates.Template:Qref Streusen was able to give precise commands to all his subordinate chefs of the Big Mom Pirates to prepare a gigantic wedding cake of brilliant culinary craftsmanship without personally making it.

#### Sous Chef

A Template:Nihongo is essentially the second-in-command of a group of chefs of a single establishment, under the Head Chef. Sanji was the sous chef of Baratie, under Zeff. Sanji used to bicker with Zeff and the many other chefs there, which made it hard for many to believe that he was ever connected to the restaurant. Still, Sanji was greatly respected by his colleagues there, a sentiment shared both ways. Trained by Zeff himself, Sanji proved to be a great chef, and once intended to succeed Zeff as Head Chef of Baratie, although he wanted so more out of a duty of repaying Zeff for saving his life.Template:Qref

### Other Specialties and Positions

There are other types of chefs, including those which choose to specialize in certain fields, examples being artisans and pâtissiers.

An artisan is one who is able to not only make delicious treats, but also arrange it in a certain way to make it pleasing to the eye, like a piece of art. Though aided by their Devil Fruit powers, Charlotte Perospero and Cracker both claim to be artisans in their field of candy and biscuits respectively.

As for pâtissier's, or pastry chefs, they specialize in making baked sweets, such as cakes. Charlotte Pudding claims to be a master in chocolate, while Charlotte Chiffon is specialized with cakes, specifically chiffon cakes.

Wanze is a chef who specialized in ramen, though his method of preparing it is considered disgusting by all, as he ingests flour and exudes it as noodles through his nose, which he cuts with his nose hair. None who see how he creates his dishes are willing to eat it, and along with his fighting style of using ramen and cooking utensils as fighting, Sanji saw Wanze's wasteful nature of food as unworthy of being a cook at all.

Hatchan's dream, alongside Kuroobi and Chew, was to open a takoyaki stand. After the arrest of the Arlong Pirates, Hatchan, being the sole escapee, was able to live up to this dream, becoming a chef specializing in takoyaki.

Ganzo is a chef who specializes in oden, with his grandson Tobio helping him. It was part of their dream to serve oden to the people of the world.