Definition of "cooking" []

• In progress, happening. (adjective)
• The process of preparing food by using heat. (noun)
• The process of preparing food. (noun)
• The result of that process, a meal. (noun)
• The style or genre of food preparation; cookery. (noun)

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• "Though he has made his name cooking Italian food, he occasionally calls upon his French training, he said, "to just make a dish better.""
• "MasterChef has given us so much: the idea that shouting at each other from close proximity is a reasonable way to debate, the phrase "cooking doesn't get tougher than this", and now the chance to take part in a holiday 'cook-off' in the style of the TV show."
• "But the big money in cooking is on the corporate side, where multi-national corporations do a big volume of prepared and pre-cooked foods, in addition to their restaurant chains."