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The Cooks

1.0 / 10

2004

1 season

13 episodes

Drama

The Cooks was an Australian television drama series that ran for one season on Network Ten during the summer of 2004/05. It was a co-production with subscription television and screened on the UKTV channel on Foxtel. It was produced by Penny Chapman and Sue Masters. The directors were Tony Tilse, Ian Gilmour, Brendan Maher and Ian Watson. The Cooks was about the love and war involving the staff of two restaurants on the same street. R&R's Restaurant was run by chefs Rita and Ruth, with waitress Argentine Carmelita. Across the road at Snatch and Grab, its chefs are Gabe and Sachin, who's of Indian descent, with Dishpig at the sink. The Cooks was a spin-off of a telemovie called Temptation, which screened in 2003, starring Colin Friels as Roberto Francobelli.

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Cast

Bojana Novaković

Emma Lung

Nicholas Brown

Leon Ford

Rhondda Findleton

Kate Atkinson

Toby Schmitz

Seasons

Ep 1
1.Nights Of Living Dangerously
18-10-2004
Life is pretty good for the staff of R&R restaurant. With no real competition on their strip, their restaurant is now a year old and a success. That is until the arrival of Gabe, t...
Ep 2
2.Desiree
28-10-2004
The competition between the two restaurants hots up, as the new, remodelled Snatch and Grab takes off, and R&Rs business begins to suffer.
Ep 3
3.The Olive Garden
04-11-2004
The passionate relationship between Sachin and Carmelita is tested. Meanwhile, Gabe is beginning to realise that running a restaurant and being a single father might be too much to...
Ep 4
4.Swimming Upstream
11-11-2004
Sexual longing for Gabe and her passion for food combine in Ruth's dreams to produce a new salmon dish. Despite Gabe's denials, Ruth sees this as a move for the two to be reunited...
Ep 5
5.Waltzing Sakamoto
18-11-2004
Dishpig is experiencing something of a meltdown. The combination of Ruth's rejection of his advances and Gabe stealing his girl has flushed out all his deepest insecurities.
Ep 6
6.The Gingerbread Man
25-11-2004
Gabe and Raffa learn that Rosie is being ostracised by her friends because her mother is ""crazy"". In an attempt to cheer her up, everyone pitches in to organise a fabulous karaok...
Ep 7
7.Beef With You
02-12-2004
When, through the influence of Ruth's ""tame"" DJ, R&R begins to edge ahead of Snatch and Grab, Gabe and his team decide they need some publicity of their own. Sachin gets invited...
Ep 8
8.Beer And Skittles
09-12-2004
A former mentor and, it turns out, lover, of Rita's comes to town to conduct a cooking master class. This man, Rita assures everyone, is a food genius, and so R&R will host the cla...
Ep 9
9.Blood And Chocolate
16-12-2004
Inspired by his new found relationship with Carmelita, Dishpig undergoes a transformation.
Ep 10
10.Hole Lotta Love
23-12-2004
R&R restaurant is raided by the Department of Immigration, and terrified of something going wrong, Carmelita brings forward the date of her wedding to Dishpig.
Ep 11
11.Heart Of Marshmallow
30-12-2004
Two influential celebrities have chosen to dine at R&R on their wedding anniversary, and have asked Rita to prepare a heart shaped dessert for the occasion. Gabe is strapped for ca...
Ep 12
12.Honey And Wounds
06-01-2005
Carmelita and Dishpig prepare to face a series of interviews at the Immigration Department, in which they must prove the legitimacy of their marriage.
13.Sticky
13-01-2005
During the ""Cooks of 2000"" cooking school reunion, various relationships come to the boil, and in one long night of very hard partying, some things change forever.

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