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UK
/kˈʊkəɹi/
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NOUN
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the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
people are needed who have experience in cookery
cooking can be a great art
he left the preparation of meals to his wife
How To Use cookery In A Sentence
- Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
- I had a quick flip through my cookery books and found a recipe that sounded quite nice.
- Some cut away after a while to cookery programmes and manga cartoons. Times, Sunday Times
- Dinner parties, cookery demos, oyster shucking championships, plus music and comedy. Times, Sunday Times
- You can also join in with tutored tastings and cookery demonstrations. Times, Sunday Times
- One of the great fallacies that many Americans hold in regards to Chinese cookery is that there is one over-arching cuisine that is known as Chinese. Tigers & Strawberries » Yin and Yang
- American cookery expert known for her books and her instructional television and video series.
- Cookery demonstrations and street theatre will add to the entertainment. Times, Sunday Times
- Sheffer -- who knew what makes business men laugh -- pinned his simple faith to three main subjects, convulsive of the diaphragmatic muscles, building up each series upon the inherent humor to be extracted from physical violence as represented in the perpetrations and punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead and Buttinsky. Success A Novel
- There are free yoga classes, rum tastings and cookery demonstrations. Times, Sunday Times