cookery

IPA: kˈʊkɝi

noun

  • 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.]
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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'
  • Vladimir said ... your cookery is glorious and you should marry me
  • 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.
  • Early examples suggest it arose in cookery, meaning the blending of flavours.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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