cookery

IPA: kˈʊkɝi

The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
(obsolete) A delicacy; a dainty.
(archaic) Cooking tools or apparatus.
(archaic) A place where cooking is done.
Obsolete form of kukri. [A curved Nepalese knife used especially by Gurkha fighters; many variants exist, but all share recurve as a common theme.]

Examples of "cookery" in Sentences

Vladimir said ... your cookery is glorious and you should marry me
Early examples suggest it arose in cookery, meaning the blending of flavours.
I was going to say I like the term cookery book as well, but someone beat me to it.
He has no misgiving that cookery is not the most sublime and important of professions.
Hi lydia, great additions to the list, doesn't oyster sauce pop up a lot in Chinese cookery?
[He] invented a mobile kitchen, which virtually took military cookery from the Middle Ages into the modern world.
We're beginning to organise courses for the year ahead: in Italian cookery, charcoal burning, chair making, spoon carving, bowl turning and so on.
One of the great fallacies that many Americans hold in regards to Chinese cookery is that there is one over-arching cuisine that is known as Chinese.
The term cookery, as has been explained, means the preparation of both hot and cold dishes for use as food, as well as the selection of the materials or substances that are to be cooked.
No longer the house-boys loafed and did as little as they could; while the cook complained that "head belong him walk about too much," from the strenuous course in cookery which she put him through.