cookery

Noun

Meaning

The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.

A delicacy; a dainty.

Source: Webster's dictionary

preparation cooking culinary art cook jacquard food brewing chef meat feed cuisine boiling kitchen fare nutrition

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browning cuisine boiling baking frying stewing

Kissing don't last: cookery do! George Meredith

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating. Louise Brown

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. Ambrose Bierce

Hunger finds no fault with cookery. Vietnamese Proverb

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery. Dutch Proverb

He who never moves about appreciates only one's mother's cookery skills. African Proverb