cookery

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cook=er=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

cookery, n. 

•  The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat; cooking.  [1913 Webster]
•  A delicacy; a dainty.  R. North.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cookery, n. (pl. -ies)
1 the art or practice of cooking.
2 US a place or establishment for cooking.

Idiom

cookery book Brit. a book containing recipes and other information about cooking.

THESAURUS

cookery

bakehouse, bakery, baking, barbecuing, basting, boiling, braising, brewing, broil, broiling, burner, caboose, caliduct, camboose, catering, cooker, cookhouse, cooking, cookroom, cuisine, culinary science, domestic science, element, frying, furnace, galley, gas jet, grilling, heater, heating duct, home economics, jet, kitchen, kitchenette, nutrition, pan-broiling, pilot light, poaching, roasting, sauteing, scullery, searing, shirring, simmering, steam pipe, steeping, stewing, stove, tewel, toasting, tuyere, warmer

ROGET THESAURUS

cookery

Preparation

N preparation, providing, provision, providence, anticipation, precaution, preconcertation, predisposition, forecast, rehearsal, note of preparation, arrangement, clearance, adjustment, tuning, equipment, outfit, accouterment, armament, array, ripening, maturation, evolution, elaboration, concoction, digestion, gestation, batching, incubation, sitting, groundwork, first stone, cradle, stepping-stone, foundation, scaffold, scaffolding, echafaudage, training, inurement, novitiate, cooking, cookery, brewing, culinary art, tilling, plowing sowing, semination, cultivation, preparedness, readiness, ripeness, mellowness, maturity, un impromptu fait a loisir, preparer, trainer, pioneer, trailblazer, avant-courrier, avant-coureur, voortrekker, sappers and miners, pavior, navvy, packer, stevedore, warming pan, preparing, in preparation, in course of preparation, in agitation, in embryo, in hand, in train, afoot, afloat, on foot, on the stocks, on the anvil, under consideration, brewing, batching, forthcoming, brooding, in store for, in reserve, precautionary, provident, preparative, preparatory, provisional, inchoate, under revision, preliminary, prepared, in readiness, ready, ready to one's band, ready made, ready cut and dried: made to one's hand, handy, on the table, in gear, in working order, in working gear, snug, in practice, ripe, mature, mellow, pukka, practiced, labored, elaborate, highly-wrought, smelling of the lamp, worked up, in full feather, in best bib and tucker, in harness, at harness, in the saddle, in arms, in battle array, in war paint, up in arms, armed at all points, armed to the teeth, armed cap a pie, sword in hand, booted and spurred, in utrumque paratus, semper paratus, on the alert, at one's post, in preparation, in anticipation of, against, for, abroach, a bove majori discit arare minor, looking before and after, si vis pacem para bellum.