Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cookery
1 sense of cookery
Sense 1
cooking, cookery, preparation -- (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")
=> change of state -- (the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics)