cookery

Plural: cookeries

Noun

• The art or practice of preparing and cooking food.
• the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
  • "people are needed who have experience in cookery"
• The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
• A delicacy; a dainty.
• Cooking tools or apparatus.
• A place where cooking is done.
• Obsolete form of kukri.

Examples

• Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.
• His exceptional cookery of rare letters resulted in a grand slam for Words With Friends.

Synonyms

cooking, preparation, culinary art