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cookery

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cookery
cook‧e‧ry /ˈkʊkəri/ noun [uncountable]
 Word Family: noun: cook, cooker, cookery, cooking; adjective: cooked ≠ uncooked, overcooked ≠ UNDERCOOKED, cooking; verb: cook, overcook ≠ UNDERCOOK
British English the art or skill of cooking:
    a one-year cookery course
    French cookery
     
COLLOCATIONS
■ ADJECTIVES/NOUN + cookery
   ▪ French/Italian/Indian etc cookery Chillis are used a lot in Mexican cookery.
   ▪ vegetarian cookery More and more people are taking an interest in vegetarian cookery.
   ▪ microwave cookery (=cooking using a microwave oven) There are many books on microwave cookery.
   ▪ cordon bleu cookery (=in the style of traditional French cooking of a high standard) She did a course in cordon bleu cookery.
■ nouns
   ▪ a cookery book (=telling you how to cook food) She opened her cookery book and chose a recipe.
   ▪ a cookery demonstration (=when someone shows you how to cook something) After the cookery demonstration there is a free buffet.
   ▪ a cookery course I decided to take a three-week cookery course.
   ▪ a cookery class/lesson I had basic cookery lessons at school.
   ▪ a cookery programme (=showing people how to cook on television) There are a huge number of cookery programmes on TV nowadays.
   ▪ a cookery writer (=someone who writes books or articles about cooking) He's a cookery writer for a newspaper.