Worshipful Company of Cooks

Worshipful Company of Cooks
Worshipful Company of Cooks
Vulnerati Non Victi
The Cooks' Company Coat of Arms
Date of formation: 1482
Company association: Cooks and food
Order of precedence: 35
Motto: Vulnerati Non Victi
Website: www.cookslivery.org.uk

The Worshipful Company of Cooks of London is the smallest of the Livery Companies of the City of London.

The Company received its Royal Charter in 1482.

Its origins can be traced back to the 12th Century, founded from two guilds of cooks in medieval London - the Cooks of Eastcheap and the Cooks of Bread Street.

As you would expect from a Company whose roots can be traced back to 1170, the Worshipful Company of Cooks has a rich and colourful history from the earliest records of Cooks in the Middle Ages and their control of the craft until the 19th Century to the Company’s current charitable works.

The Cooks Company is no longer an association of tradesmen in its original sense of control; yet, its membership today still includes craft tradesmen, and its actvities engage with a broad range of organisations associated with cooking.[1] The Company's purpose in contemporary times has come to rest in a public search for the common good, to contribute as effectively as it can to the pursuit of a good society - to be socially useful. It does this through four principal objectives that translate its origins, history, traditions, affiliations, and activities into meaningful outcomes for today's world:

  • To fund a range of charitable activities associated with the welfare and education of the catering trade
  • To support the modern day craft of cooking including catering excellence through competition, scholarly and scientific culinary research, and the development of food policy
  • To support the City of London
  • To pursue a fellowship of association that can mobilise the necessary resource, skill, and wisdom to bring these about

The Cooks' Company ranks thirty-fifth in the order of precedence of Livery Companies.

Its motto is Vulnerati Non Victi, Latin for Wounded not Conquered.

References

1. A new history of the Company, written by Dr Alan Borg, was published in 2011: A History of the Worshipful Company of Cooks of London

External Links

  1. ^ http://bubbl.us/view.php?sid=105731&pw=yaqYUaoRlhDMINjJ1LjZzRm5qLnNKZw

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