(n.) The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.
(n.) A delicacy; a dainty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cookery programmes bloat the television schedules, cookbooks strain the bookshop tables, celebrity chefs hawk their own brands of weird mince pies ( Heston Blumenthal ) or bronze-moulded pasta ( Jamie Oliver ) in the supermarkets, and cooks in super-expensive restaurants from Chicago to Copenhagen are the subject of hagiographic profiles in serious magazines and newspapers.
(2) Her rhetoric hits a modest peak in the introductory remarks: "This book is the result of a long practical experience, a lively curiosity and a real love for cookery.
(3) I make ful cobi with my cookery students: carrot, peas, cauliflower and sweetcorn, gently stir-fried with mustard seeds, ginger, garlic and green chillies, and they're amazed how tasty it is.
(4) She has said she would like to teach courses or write a cookery book.
(5) ITV will hope it does better than its last attempt to tap into the vogue for TV cookery competitions, Food Glorious Food, which flopped two years ago despite the power of the man behind it, Simon Cowell.
(6) They organised painting classes, cookery classes and computer classes, and gave practical help to make sure the poorest prisoners had food, clothing and essentials.
(7) Yes, we all understood that he was the metaphorical Naked Chef because of the pared down bish-bash-bosh style of cookery, but he might as well genuinely have got his kit off for all the difference it made.
(8) She was also honing the cookery skills she had learned from her mother, setting up a crepe business catering for parties and nightclubs.
(9) Ed Balls, the man who was once Gordon Brown’s uomo d’affari (the man sent out to do the business), then a cabinet minister, then a Labour leadership contender, shadow chancellor and now an ex-MP has become ... a cookery writer.
(10) She also wants all the Food Tube cooks to become their own brands that work both on- and offline, selling products from cookery books to pots and pans, and hosting live events.
(11) Now it can come out and take pride of place in our living room.” Previous winners of the programme have gone on to forge careers in baking, releasing recipe books, opening cookery schools or becoming spokespeople for kitchenware brands.
(12) According to the survey, a quarter of those aged between 25 and 34 said that cookery programmes such as GBBO encouraged them to try out their own culinary skills.
(13) He devised boxes of separate recipe cards, instead of ordinary cookery books, and published more than 20 titles, including Great Dishes of the World (1967), which was to sell more than 10m copies, and The Robert Carrier Cookery Book (1970).
(14) But like every article or cookery book published in the Delia era, we did go through a didactic phase when the purpose of the food image was not to amuse but to tell you how the finished recipe should look.
(15) Rose Gray, who has died of cancer aged 71, was the co-founder, along with Ruth Rogers, of the iconic River Cafe in London , and was one of Britain's most influential modern chefs and cookery writers.
(16) One morning at the Cookery School, one of the students was whipping cream for pudding.
(17) Be it his travelling in Italy, his journey across the US or even the current Christmas cookery series on Channel 4, he has avoided the temptation to go all cheffy; most of what he cooks today would have sat comfortably in the Naked Chef books of a decade ago.
(18) The former shadow chancellor Ed Balls has reinvented himself on many levels since losing his parliamentary seat, perhaps most surprisingly as a cookery writer.
(19) • A two-hour cookery lesson and lunch with Faldela costs from £13pp (+27 72 483 4040, faldelatolker@gmail.com)
(20) Meanwhile Bloomsbury's digital media director, Stephanie Duncan, foresaw the Kindle Fire prompting a big leap in e-books for illustrated titles such as cookery books and children's picture books.
Coopery
Definition:
(a.) Relating to a cooper; coopered.
(n.) The occupation of a cooper.
Example Sentences:
(1) From the fresh latex of Euphorbia cooperi N E Br was isolated by partition and chromatographic methods, a diterpene ester 12-deoxyphorbol-16-isobutyrate-13-tigliate.
(2) Theromyzon cooperi increased its body mass after parasitism with a mean of 10.5-fold compared to 6.9-fold for P. garoui.
(3) The anatomy of four skulls of the early Eocene omomyid Shoshonius cooperi--the first cranial material recovered for this genus--strongly suggests that Shoshonius shares a more recent common ancestry with Tarsius than do either anthropoids or other Eocene omomyids for which cranial anatomy is known.
(4) The effects of parasitism by leeches Theromyzon cooperi and Placobdella garoui on the redbilled teal Anas erythrorhyncha were investigated.