Get all the ingredients together before you start cooking.

把所有的材料放在一起再开始烹饪。

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Mike, when did you start cooking?

迈克，你什么时候开始做饭的？

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It is important to get the coals white-hot before you start cooking.

很重要的一点是要把煤块烧到白热状再开始做饭。

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Before you start cooking, remove the chard's stems and clean the chopped leaves by dunking them in two or three changes of water.

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Bar staff are also being asked to wear T-shirts encouraging pub and club goers to have a takeaway rather than start cooking at home.

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In the mid-2000s, the Thai Health Promotion Foundation launched a campaign called "Food Safety: Edible Flowers" to push restaurants to start cooking with flowers and persuade farmers to stop using pesticides.

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