Big Cook, Little Cook

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"Big Cook, Little Cook" is a television series for nursery school-aged children broadcast on BBC television channels (particularly the CBeebies digital television channel). The programme is set in the kitchen of a café, with two principal characters, Big Cook Ben and Little Cook Small. Ben is a full-sized adult, but Small is only a few centimetres tall and flies around on a wooden spoon. Ben and Small are played by Stephen Marsh and Dan Wright.

The format of a programme generally includes a visit to the café by a nursery rhyme or fairy tale character (such as Little Miss Muffet or Humpty Dumpty). Little Cook tells a story about the visitor which paints himself as the real hero, and then they decide to cook the visitor an appropriate meal from Big's Cook's recipe book. Typically, one vital ingredient is usually missing from the kitchen cupboards, which gives Little Cook an opportunity to fly off on his spoon to retrieve the missing item (leading to a video insert of a farm or a factory where the missing ingredient is made or packaged). Activities within the kitchen, such as washing up and tidying up, are accompanied by catchy song and dance routines.

Both cooks act in an expansive and overblown style, but the show seems intended to encourage children to take an interest in cooking. Little Cook doesn't do much cooking: while Big Cook prepares the meals, Little Cook does a bit of 'prep' or sets the egg timer, and often wanders with his street shoes on the counter precariously close to the egg whisk.

Some of the aerial shots of Little Cook flying were filmed over the town of Skipton in North Yorkshire.

See also

*CBeebies

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/bigcooklittlecook/ CBeebies - "Big Cook, Little Cook"] at bbc.co.uk

Their Song

Big cook, little cook, welcome to our cafe,Big cook, little cook, welcome to our cafe,

We all ready

Wash, wipe scrub and clean,
Make the kitchen sparkle and gleam,
My names Ben,and my names Small,
We've got the cleanest kitchen of all,
Tidy all the bits and bobs,
the things that help us do our jobs,
Ingredients we put away,
Ready for use another day,
Pots and pans will start to smell,
if we don't wash them really well,
now it's clear, let's all smileWe'll be ready in a little whileAll around,up and down,
we've got the cleanest cafe in town!!!