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cookery

[kook-uh-ree] / ˈkʊk ə ri /






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He once cautioned that “Mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twice as much as nature requires.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 14, 2026

He wants to hang a sheet from the chalet to project films into a summer open air cinema, and open a bistro where they could offer cookery classes.

From BBC Apr. 7, 2026

His success made him part of an exciting arts scene in the 1960s and his cookery skills often saw him hosting dinner parties for celebrities.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2026

Meghan's lifestyle and cookery show - With Love, Meghan - ran for two series and a Christmas special but did not perform well with audiences.

From BBC Mar. 6, 2026

But this was the big day for judging cattle, quilts, and cookery, so the grounds were packed, though it was a nickel to get in.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

The kitchen is one of the world's largest all-electric cookeries, has a refrigerated room to keep all scraps.

From Time Magazine Archive

All meat pies require a hotter and brisker oven than fruit pies, in good cookeries, all raisins should be stoned.—As people differ in their tastes, they may alter to their wishes.

From American Cookery The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables by Amelia Simmons

Well, rejoice in your upholsteries and cookeries if so be they will make you "happy."

From The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

On the contrary, there was a manifest inclination to detect resemblances of taste and flavor to those of very many rare and delicate cookeries; but after awhile there came a pause.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Lewis Gaylord Clark

My grandmother did not leave her room that evening, and we were told that she was ill; while it is scarcely necessary to add that Fred never again interfered with any of Venus' cookeries.

From A Grandmother's Recollections by Ella Rodman Church




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