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cookery

[kook-uh-ree] / ˈkʊk ə ri /






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The festival is a not-for-profit event, hosting entertainment, crafts, food and cookery demos, with any money made being donated to charities, with children's cancer charity Abby's Heroes the main beneficiary.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

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

A lover of good food, he wrote and illustrated a cartoon cookery strip for the Daily Express, which transferred to The Observer in 1962.

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

Perhaps the smell of candlefish fat, ubiquitous in later Northwest Coast Indian cookery, even then hovered over the first visitors’ fires.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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