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What does cookery mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cookery? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
  2. (obsolete) A delicacy; a dainty.
  3. (obsolete) Cooking tools or apparatus.
  4. (figuratively) Making something appear better than it is; altering or falsifying records; 'window dressing'.
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The competition tests team-member's abilities in a variety of creative tasks including cookery, woodwork, crafts and computer skills.
In the realm of cheese cookery fondue and raclette are well known internationally.
Then we'll be able to concentrate on other interests, mainly in the wholefood cookery area.
Macaroon recipes have appeared in cookery books since at least the late 17th century.
Thus, a dish of meat and various vegetables stir fried in a wok is not one-pot cookery, because a wok is not a pot.
In French meat cookery, jus is roughly equivalent to honestly made thin gravy in the British tradition.

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