(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.
Dainty
Definition:
(n.) That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.
(n.) A term of fondness.
(n.) Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.
(superl.) Rare; valuable; costly.
(superl.) Delicious to the palate; toothsome.
(superl.) Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.
(superl.) Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
(2) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
(3) That was the week when the Bake Off contestants were called on to make dainty biscuits and elaborate gingerbread concoctions, following previous showdowns over who could make the fluffiest muffins and the creamiest custard tarts.
(4) His dainty close control was beautiful and took him past both Pique and Puyol; then, from 10 yards, he deliberately poked the ball wide of Casillas with his right foot, and it came flush off the post.
(5) Ighalo clearly had the beating of Otamendi and Eliaquim Mangala, while Touré, playing in a midfield two alongside Fernandinho, had his ego pricked by a couple of dainty touches from José Manuel Jurado.
(6) Their denial fits perfectly with their support for free market economics, opposition to state intervention and hatred of all those latte-slurping, quinoa-munching liberals, with their arrogant manners and dainty hybrid cars, who presume to tell honest men and women how to live.
(7) From the outset, Arsenal had been the more sprightly and inventive, and that pattern continued when Cesc Fábregas clipped a dainty ball over the Spurs defence for Nasri to chase.
(8) Muamba dinked a deft reverse pass to Cattermole, who slipped a dainty ball behind the German defence in anticipation of a surge by Walcott.
(9) They are laughing at the dainty affectations of the Leawoof toffs.
(10) After a semi-final that saw platters of immaculate choux swans, jewel-coloured macaroons and dainty sponges put before the judges, the technical challenge – a stand of sweet fondant fancies, nestled, pink and delicious as if awaiting a party of angelic children – was a reminder that even a GBBO finalist still needs the guidance of Berry.
(11) Balotelli peeled off his marker to run on to it and then, from 10 yards, tried to lift a dainty lob over the advancing goalkeeper ... but it was the finish of a dilletante rather than a deadly striker and the ball dropped meekly wide.
(12) StickmanLA Life at the old soldiers' hotel In drama, seaside hotels are usually inhabited by retired colonels and majors in blazers, and dainty elderly ladies.
(13) From her oddly dainty presence that voice, a voice that seemed not to come from her but from somewhere beyond even Billie and Ella, from the font of all greatness.
(14) In person she is dainty, almost exaggeratedly ladylike, and much more playfully ambivalent than the public debate about her book.
(15) On Friday, Johnson and Dan Hannan said that in all probability the number of foreigners coming here won’t fall I am not going to be over-dainty about mendacity.
(16) Perhaps now is the time to reach for altogether plainer tableware and glasses, for Kaj Frank bowls at one end of the price range, but more likely to Duralex tumblers at the other as we face a future of, as it were, porridge and tap water rather than the fine wines and dainty dishes it's hard not to associate with Waterford and Wedgwood.
(17) A mong the many strangers to personal daintiness in Game of Thrones is a character called Shagga son of Dolf.
(18) And it was a goal of impressive daintiness, to boot.
(19) 3.00am GMT Packers 21 - 49ers 21, 0:03 2nd quarter Kaepernick is a maniac - there is no dainty QB slide with him.
(20) Jason Puncheon did well to recycle the ball to Yohan Cabaye after Albion cleared a corner and the Frenchman floated a dainty cross over Dawson towards the back post.