Citations:cookery


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * I perceived one of them immediately fall; being knocked down, I suppose, with a club or wooden sword, for that was their way; and two or three others were at work immediately, cutting him open for their cookery, while the other victim was left standing by himself, till they should be ready for him.
 * 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...