cooking, cookery, preparation
(noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; “cooking can be a great art”; “people are needed who have experience in cookery”; “he left the preparation of meals to his wife”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cookery (countable and uncountable, plural cookeries)
The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
Synonym: cooking
(obsolete) A delicacy; a dainty.
(obsolete) Cooking tools or apparatus.
• (art of preparing food): See culinary art
Source: Wiktionary
Cook"er*y, n.
1. The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.
2. A delicacy; a dainty. [Obs.] R. North.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 March 2025
(adjective) without care or thought for others; “the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; ‘Let them eat cake’”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
