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cookery

cookery

6 3.2
Skill in making food by mixing and heating ingredients
  • noun
  • /ˈkʊkəri/
  • UK
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  • She enrolled in a cookery course to learn how to prepare gourmet meals.
  • the art of cookery
  • domestic cookery
  • cookery book

You're going to get to see the first performance of my new live cookery show, Cooking with AI.

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Examples

  • Other recreations include reading in the library, pottery, cookery, art, and horticulture for adult and child alike.

    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

  • Both Dan and Aaron are amazingly skilled in wilderness travel, route finding, backcountry cookery, and camp conversation.

    Blog text (25)

  • what I lack in talent for cookery, I make up in speed.

    The Man from Planet X (1951)

  • You know, actually, I'm running late for my cookery exam.

    The Cost of Love (2010)

  • The training of mothers in childcare and nutrition and girls in cookery and physical exercise should be encouraged.

  • And he's currently teaching the guests in the cookery school how to cook dog biscuits for your dog.

  • We even did a cookery class in Chiang Mai to like, learn how to cook Thai food and Asian food.

  • The book grew out of Julia, Simka and Loizet's love of cookery and what Julia called sweet little old France.

    Harvard University

  • The festival featured demonstrations of local cookery by renowned chefs.

  • Many families enjoy sharing recipes that showcase traditional cookery skills.

Synonyms

cooking
vscookery
504 1.0

Preparing food by heating it, for example by boiling, baking, frying or roasting

is broader, covering skill and combining ingredients as well as heating
cooking skill
vscookery
4 1.8

To prepare and cook food well

is the practical activity of preparing food, not only the ability to do it
gastronomy
vscookery
3 7.0

A way of preparing and enjoying good food in a region's style

is the hands-on skill of preparing food rather than cultural enjoyment or style
culinary art
vscookery
  • Specialized
2 3.7

A skill for preparing and presenting food that people use as a job

is the general practice or skill for preparing food beyond professional focus

Compounds

cookery book
  • UK
1 2.8

A book with recipes and steps to cook food

How Skilled

culinary art
  • Specialized
2 3.7
cookery
  • UK
6 3.2

Surface Forms

cookery singular
cookeries plural

Morphology

cookery = cook (transparent) = cook + ery

The noun 'cookery' is a standard nominalization from 'cook' with the productive suffix '-ery' meaning practice or place, so its meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Cookery comes from cook ('to prepare food') plus the ending -ery, which means an activity or place and is the same ending you see in bakery. So, cookery means the skill or art of cooking — the practice of preparing food.