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The act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
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cookery
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Word definitions for cookery in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a cookery/wildlife/news etc programme ▪ More and more people are watching cookery programmes on TV. cookery book COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN book ▪ Libraries come nowhere, for instance, in the big selling areas of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c.; see cook (n.) + -ery .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking. 2 (context obsolete English) A delicacy; a dainty. 3 (context obsolete English) Cooking tools or apparatus. 4 (context figurative English) Making ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" [syn: cooking , preparation ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cookery \Cook"er*y\ (k[oo^]k"[~e]r*[y^]), n. The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat; cooking. A delicacy; a dainty. [Obs.] --R. North.
Usage examples of cookery.
And Ben came to write the most scin-tillating cookery book ever to set sail through the post in hopes of landing a publisher.
Haskell would enjoy doing a little cookery demonstration for the Hearthside Guild.
Historical Society doing a home tour, and the Hearthside Guild is interested in having your husband put on a cookery demonstration.
I hear he has recently authored a cookery book, laced with herbal nostalgia.
And it was dark in the cave before he peered at his cookery and decided that it was done.
The many bodies, the steam from the cookery, and the reflected heat from bonfire and torches, warmed the courtyard almost unbearably.
The trident was returned to the customer who either ate his prize raw on the spot or took his clam shell to one of the cookery booths.
Their wines are generally abominable, and their cookery often disgusting.
I never yet made a single comfortable meal at an American hotel, or rose from my breakfast or dinner with that feeling of satisfaction which should, I think, be felt at such moments in a civilized land in which cookery prevails as an art.
It is palpable, undisguised grease, floating in rivers--not grease caused by accidental bad cookery, but grease on purpose.
The rest of the ingredients were in the pantry, in neatly labelled pots and sacks: the same roots and barks used in cookery, most of them.
The conversation turned to food and cookery, and the focus shifted off me.
We linked hands so they could follow me to the entrance to the staircase, snaking through this mess of cookery and cooks until we finally escaped.
I went down the street to the Cookery coffee shop, got some dimes and phoned the number I had been given as a contact.
Caribbean cookery, and The Cooking of the Caribbean Islands, Time-Life Books.