cook ‧ e ‧ ry /ˈkʊk ə ri/ BrE AmE 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
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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.