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

To the eye, the Cookery may seem unprepossessing.
The house is now the base for Waters' cookery school.
He was the author of over 30 books on Chinese cookery.
Professional and acclaimed cookery writers concur with the OED.
The village is also the location of 'Pudding Pie Cookery School'
The duo's lifestyle TV show is a mixture of cookery and travelogue.
The channels name is based on the brand of BBC Worldwide cookery magazine.
In 1912, the technical block was built to house cookery and woodwork classes.
The local gastronomy results from the fusing of the Minho and fishing cookery.
The Deipnosophists is an important source of cookery recipes in classical Greek.