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View synonyms for cookery

cookery

[ kook-uh-ree ]

noun

, Chiefly British.
, plural cook·er·ies.
  1. the art or practice of cooking.
  2. a place equipped for cooking.


cookery

/ ˈkʊkərɪ /

noun

  1. the art, study, or practice of cooking
  2. a place for cooking
  3. a cookhouse at a mining or lumber camp


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cookery1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English cokerie, kokery; cook 1, -ery

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Example Sentences

Price observes a different sort of cookery in her pictures of reclining sunbathers on Brooklyn beaches, made from 2008 to 2015 and published in a 2016 book, “Stranger Lives.”

In Rodney Scott’s World of BBQ, I believe Scott has set down the final word in backyard pig cookery.

In the mid-1700s, “The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy” by Hannah Glasse carried a “Hamburgh sausages” recipe, which was served on toasted bread.

Doubleday became the first house to hire a fulltime editor, Clara Claasen, to fill its stable with cookery authors.

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Ferris credits her books Louisiana Cookery (1954) and New Orleans Cuisine (1969) as exemplars of diligent reporting and research.

How does she find the time to write her cookery column for Waitrose magazine, that's what people will be asking.

John Benbow has started cookery classes in his home in Clerkenwell.

The cookbook that has most inspired me is Escoffier: The Complete Guide to the Art of Modern Cookery.

Jamie Boswell contended that cookery was the criterion of reason; for that no animal but man did cook.

Every thing was excellent in its kind, with only a little more garlic than is used in English cookery.

It reeked with stale tobacco-smoke, the smell of cookery, and the odors of frowsy clothes.

This is a humorous allusion to a manner of serving up pikes which is well illustrated in the Fifteenth-Century Cookery-books, ed.

As early as 1878 payment for the attendance of the workhouse girls at a school of cookery was held to be legal.

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