cookery
Americannoun
plural
cookeries-
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
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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He once cautioned that “Mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twice as much as nature requires.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Born in Kibblesworth, Gateshead, King found fame as one half of the TV duo, appearing with Myers on the BBC cookery series for many years.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
"First we look at the ingredients -- the bouillon, the vegetables," said Flang Cupido, 63, a cookery teacher taking part as a judge for the fourth time this year.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
Her comments come as her Leiths Education cookery training service launch a new free primary school curriculum to help get children in the kitchen.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
Perhaps the smell of candlefish fat, ubiquitous in later Northwest Coast Indian cookery, even then hovered over the first visitors’ fires.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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