Cookery vs Culinary - What's the difference?
cookery | culinary |
The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
* 1475 , Kenelm Digby, The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened , subtitle:
(obsolete) A delicacy; a dainty.
* 1839 , John Espy Lovell, "Fish out of water", Rhetorical Dialogues , page 335:
(obsolete) Cooking tools or apparatus.
* 1800 , Charlotte Yonge, The Little Duke , page 3:
* 1934 , Gray Owl, Pilgrims of the Wild , page 101:
(figurative) Making something appear better than it is; altering or falsifying records; 'window dressing'.
* 1871 [380 BCE], Plato, Gorgias , tr. Benjamin Jowett:
* 1997 , Leon Mayhew, The New Public , page 22–3:
Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.
Of, or relating to a kitchen
As a noun cookery
is the art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.As an adjective culinary is
relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.cookery
English
Noun
- Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.
- together with excellent directions for cookery , as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c.
- I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale.
- She directed the servants, inspected both the cookery and arrangements of the table, held council with an old steward...
- ...and would not be just dead weight, as on the trail it could conveniently be filled with the cookery and other odds and ends...
- Cookery , then, I maintain to be a flattery which takes the form of medicine...
- Yet ever since Plato claimed that rhetoric is only a knack of making the worse appear the better cause – a form of "cookery " – rhetorical theories of social order have been under attack...
culinary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Her culinary skills were excellent.