Word Frequency
cookery (ˈkʊkərɪ
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Definitions
noun
- the art, study, or practice of cooking
- (US) a place for cooking
- (Canadian) a cookhouse at a mining or lumber camp
Quotations including 'cookery'
"Cookery has become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen"
"If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong"
"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all"
"Life is too short to stuff a mushroom"
"The tragedy of English cooking is that `plain' cooking cannot be entrusted to `plain' cooks"
Translations for 'cookery'
- British English: cookery Cookery is the activity of preparing and cooking food.ˈkʊkərɪ NOUN
- Arabic: فَنُّ الطَّبْخ
- Brazilian Portuguese: culinária
- Chinese: 烹调术
- Croatian: kuhanje
- Czech: kuchařství
- Danish: madlavning
- Dutch: kookkunst
- European Spanish: cocinaarte
- Finnish: ruoanlaitto
- French: cuisinenourriture
- German: Kochen
- Greek: μαγειρική
- Italian: gastronomia
- Japanese: 料理法
- Korean: 요리법
- Norwegian: kokekunst
- Polish: sztuka kulinarna
- Portuguese: culinária
- Romanian: gastronomie
- Russian: кулинария
- Spanish: cocina
- Swedish: matlagning
- Thai: การปรุงอาหาร
- Turkish: aşçılık
- Ukrainian: готування
- Vietnamese: nghệ thuật ẩm thực
Example Sentences Including 'cookery'
Dahl cooked the way he wrote, making wildly inventive creations that had never seen the inside of a cookery book.Glasgow Herald (2001)
He was trained at two colleges, Ipswich and Essex, to an advanced level of cookery.A Passion for Food
Her son Matthew and daughter Fiona also continue the family tradition, competing in the junior cookery classes.The Advertiser, Sunday Mail (2004)
Instead, she went into her kitchen, got out a cookery book and began to flick through.In Real Life
It was handwritten, not printed, and had nothing to do with cookery.THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: The Sangreal Trilogy One (2004)
Some of my own early experiments in cookery were over the open fire.The Advertiser, Sunday Mail (2005)
The Roots of Catalan Cooking Few cuisines are as attached to their historical roots as Catalan cookery is.Country Life (2005)
Trump was closely followed by the jailed home cookery guru Martha Stewart (www.Belfast Telegraph (2005)
`Yes, I never cease to bless Mother for sending her on that cookery course.The Gospel Makers
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