According to WorldAtlas, Finland is the biggest coffee consumer in the entire world. The average Finn will consume 12 kg of coffee each year.
COOKERY
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
Etymology
Noun
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.
Synonyms
• (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
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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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