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[kook-uh-ree] / ˈkʊk ə ri /






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These includes a food theatre, cookery school, food workshops for children, and a soundtrack stage.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Meghan's appearance on MasterChef Australia comes after her own lifestyle and cookery show, With Love, Meghan, which sees her share cooking and hosting tips with friends and guests.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 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

Born in Kibblesworth, Gateshead, King found fame as one half of the TV duo, appearing with Myers on the BBC cookery series for many years.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026

She had let down the brown shining waterfall of her hair, which was usually kept braided in pigtails for convenience in hunting and cookery, and with the falling waves of this she framed his head.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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




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