CHAPTER. Great importance of the subject under consideration. Probability that water acts a much more important part in nutrition than has hitherto been generally imagined. Surprisingly small quantity of solid food necessary, when properly prepared, for all the purposes of nutrition. Great importance of the art of cookery. Barley remarkably nutritive when properly prepared. The importance of culinary processes for preparing food shown from the known utility of a practice common in some parts of Germany of cooking for cattle. Difficulty of introducing a charge of cookery into common use.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
Will you, who are so desirous to gratify others, afford a slight gratification to me? I will. Will you ask me, what sort of an art is cookery? What sort of an art is cookery? Not an art at all, Polus. What then? I should say an experience. In what?英文原著 · 《Gorgias》
astiring : gymnastic :: cookery : medicine; or rather, astiring : gymnastic :: sophistry : legislation; and as cookery : medicine :: rhetoric : justice.英文原著 · 《Gorgias》
The umbles, with skin, head, chine, and shoulders of the deer, were the keepers' share in the brittling. There was a receipt for "umble pie" in the old cookery. To "eat humble pie" was to dine with the servants instead of from the haunch at the high table. Okerer: usurer. Pace: pass. Pay: satisfaction. The old sense of the word in the phrase "it does not pay"--does not give satisfaction. A man could be served "to his pay," meaning in a way that satisfied or pleased him.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"Dining in company is a divine institution," says Mr. Edward White, in his delightful Minor Moralities of Life. "Let Soyer's art be honoured among all men," he goes on. "Cookery distinguishes mankind from the beasts that perish. Happy is the woman whose daily table is the result of forethought. Her husband shall rise up and call her blessed. It is piteous when the culinary art is neglected in our young women's education. Let them, as St.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-2》
FOLLIOTT. Yes, sir, such science as the learned friend deals in: everything for everybody, science for all, schools for all, rhetoric for all, law for all, physic for all, words for all, and sense for none. I say, sir, law for lawyers, and cookery for cooks: and I wish the learned friend, for all his life, a cook that will pass her time in studying his works; then every dinner he sits down to at home, he will sit on the stool of repentance.英文原著 · 《Crotchet Castle》