k-uh-ree]n., pl. -er•ies.
1. the art, study, or practice of cooking
2. a place equipped for cooking.
1350–1400; Middle English cokerie.
"Good cookery is the food of a pure conscience." Des Essarts (described in Larousse Gastronomique as having "an appetite proportionate to his corpulence." i.e. he was quite fat)
"Those who have a profound indifference to the pleasures of the table are generally gloomy, charmless and unamiable." Lucien Tendret
