Emily is annoyed to discover that their cook du jour, Florence, won’t be able to come to work because of the storm. At the start of the show Emily seemed to have both a cook and a maid (and couldn’t hang on to either for long), but later episodes show the maid doing the cooking as well as her other duties. For some reason this cook-maid is never referred to as a housekeeper.
The Annotated Gilmore Girls 