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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cookery
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 Bibles, cookery books, dictionaries and classics.
▪ Reading a cookery book about how to make a cake is very different from the actual doing of it.
▪ She opened her cookery book, and after a while she boiled a chicken, and she sang.
▪ In 1995 Delia Smith made £3m from three cookery books.
▪ She knew instantly, among the bewildering wall of cookery books, the precise one for me.
▪ De Pomiane's output was immense - some dozen cookery books, countless scores of articles, broadcasts, lectures.
▪ It is not long before this information gets into the newspapers and cookery books.
▪ I won a cookery book!?!
books
▪ Libraries come nowhere, for instance, in the big selling areas of Bibles, cookery books, dictionaries and classics.
▪ In 1995 Delia Smith made £3m from three cookery books.
▪ She knew instantly, among the bewildering wall of cookery books, the precise one for me.
▪ De Pomiane's output was immense - some dozen cookery books, countless scores of articles, broadcasts, lectures.
▪ It is not long before this information gets into the newspapers and cookery books.
▪ Here the old cookery books interrupt the smooth sequence.
▪ Most cookery books class lobsters as fish.
▪ The sale of cookery books and glass-cloths brought in more money, the cookery books producing £746.
writer
▪ National daily and Sunday newspaper cookery writers.
▪ In those days cookery writers weren't just filling out their recipes with ingredients they were being paid to sell.
■ VERB
use
▪ Black beans are used extensively in Cantonese cookery and are usually served with fish or beef.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Annatto is a small seed used in Latin American cookery.
▪ Ken Lowery, a cookery expert, will be giving free demonstrations from 4.30 until 7.00.
▪ My favourite subject at school was cookery.
▪ Puddings are a great speciality of British cookery.
▪ She studied at a vegetarian cookery school in London.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ De Pomiane's output was immense - some dozen cookery books, countless scores of articles, broadcasts, lectures.
▪ In 1995 Delia Smith made £3m from three cookery books.
▪ It is just like saying that the important goal of cookery is the production of recipes.
▪ Lizzie was an expert and Sara knew little about cookery.
▪ Others used jargon of medicine, cookery or religion for describing the tortures.
▪ The store has produced a frozen food recipe leaflet, compiled by magazine cookery experts.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cookery

Cookery \Cook"er*y\ (k[oo^]k"[~e]r*[y^]), n.

  1. The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat; cooking.

  2. A delicacy; a dainty. [Obs.]
    --R. North.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cookery

late 14c.; see cook (n.) + -ery.

Wiktionary
cookery

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 something appear better than it is; altering or falsifying records; 'window dressing'.

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WordNet
cookery

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]

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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.