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Flavour vs Cookery - What's the difference?

flavour | cookery |

As nouns the difference between flavour and cookery

is that flavour is the quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect while cookery is the art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.

As a verb flavour

is to add flavouring to something.

flavour

English

(wikipedia flavour)

Alternative forms

* flavor (American spelling)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
    • The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.
  • A substance used to produce a taste. Flavouring.
    • Flavour was added to the pudding.
  • A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
    • What flavour of bubble gum do you enjoy?
  • The characteristic quality of something.
    • the flavour of an experience
  • (informal) A kind or type.
    • Debian is one flavour of the Linux operating system.
  • (physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
  • (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
    • the flavour of a rose

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To add flavouring to something.

    • Derived terms

    * flavoured * flavourful * flavouring * flavourless * flavour of the month * flavour of the week * flavoursome

    See also

    * gustatory * gustation

    cookery

    English

    Noun

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