cookery
Americannoun
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the art or practice of cooking.
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a place equipped for cooking.
noun
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the art, study, or practice of cooking
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a place for cooking
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a cookhouse at a mining or lumber camp
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cookery
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English cokerie, kokery; see origin at cook 1, -ery
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Longone also sourced a copy of the “Jewish Cookery Book,” an 1871 volume that, according to the Forward, is generally believed to the first Jewish cookbook published in the United States.
From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2022
Paul Levy, chairman emeritus of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, of which Ms. Roden was a founding member, said her scholarship on food was part of a growing cultural trend.
From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2021
The prolific author, who co-founded the Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland with her brother, has filled her latest cookbook with 100 recipes that she describes as essential.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2021
The copy of Mrs Balbir Singh's Indian Cookery was posted to the library anonymously, along with a £20 note and a letter apologising for its lateness.
From BBC • Jul. 29, 2021
There is also a kind of shark, called the leiobatus, whose other name is the rhinè; and he is a white-fleshed fish, as Epænetus tells us in his Cookery Book.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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