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cookery

[kook-uh-ree] / ˈkʊk ə ri /






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Grant is one of many people across the UK marking the 250th anniversary of American independence by holding special events - whether walks like this, a parade, or even cookery.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Meghan's appearance comes off the back of her own lifestyle and cookery show, With Love, Meghan, which seeds her share cooking and hosting tips with friends and guests.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 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

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

A small treasure of a book hidden inside a big common one—like...spells printed on dragonfly wings, discovered tucked inside a cookery book, right between the recipes for cabbages and corn.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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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