(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.
Rookery
Definition:
(n.) The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves.
(n.) A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc.
(n.) The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals.
(n.) A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
(n.) A brothel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spring is in the air here too: in the nearby churchyard at West Huntspill, the rookery is thronged with nesting birds.
(2) An infant northern fur seal (Callhorinus ursinus) died in a rookery on St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska.
(3) I think it will eventually, but at this moment we have to go where we can get the supplies from.” Production staff at the Rookery are working across 11 production lines.
(4) The epizootic primarily affected juvenile or subadult male California sea lions migrating northward from breeding rookeries of southern California's Channel Islands.
(5) On the factory floor at the Rookery, group production manager Nick Speed says the ups and downs of the business, as well as seasonal changes tend not to affect its UK production lines, because the British manufacturing operation is given priority over factories overseas.
(6) The boys' "rookeries" were run by Italian gangmasters in Clerkenwell's Little Italy, but in keeping with contemporary suspicion and hostility to Jews Dickens made Fagin Jewish – something he later regretted.
(7) So our workloads tend to be pretty constant.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest At work on the production line at Mulberry’s Rookery factory in Somerset.
(8) We’ve only got two Mulberry-owned factories – the Rookery and the Willows – and we always make sure that they are filled first.
(9) These results are used to conclude that leptospirosis is not acquired primarily on the breeding rookeries but rather is more frequently acquired subsequent to the purps leaving the rookeries, presumably through the food chain during their first pelagic cycle.
(10) Dozens of state parks and recreation areas line the coast, featuring tide pools, seal rookeries, sea stacks and lighthouses.
(11) Over the past three years, the Rookery has been extended to increase capacity, and the Willows was opened as Mulberry brought its remaining UK production back in-house.
(12) He played in Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache at the Arts theatre and went on tour as Gerald Popkiss in Ben Travers's Rookery Nook, before giving an irresistible Roland Maule, the importunate playwright from Uckfield, in Coward's Present Laughter, at the Vaudeville in 1965.
(13) The Watford fans flooded onto the pitch, and while they were kept to the Rookery Stand half by stewards, this blocked off the route to the tunnel, meaning Knockeart and his team-mates were forced to wait for the undulating ecstasy to subside.
(14) A nearby breeding rookery on the same island was apparently unaffected.
(15) Between 130,000 and 150,000 square feet of leather is cut at the Rookery every month.
(16) About 60% of its products are made in Somerset factories: there’s the Rookery, in the village of Chilcompton in a fold of the Mendip hills, and the Willows, which opened last year about an hour down the road in Bridgwater.
(17) Our data suggest that walking 200 km (from the sea to the rookery and back) requires less than 15% of the energy reserves of a breeding male emperor penguin initially weighing 35 kg.
(18) Genotypic ratios within clutches of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) embryos, from the Mon Repos rookery (Queensland), deviate significantly from the Mendelian ratios expected on the null hypothesis of single paternity.
(19) During the antarctic winter emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) spend up to four mo fasting while they breed at rookeries 80 km or more from the sea, huddling close together in the cold.