Whois & Analysis for mastercook.com

A cookbook (sometimes cookery book in Commonwealth English or cook book) is a kitchen reference publication that typically contains a collection of recipes.

Cooking or cookery is the art, technology and craft of preparing food for consumption with the use of heat.

Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in various types of ovens, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions and trends.

The ways or types of cooking also depend on the skill and type of training an individual cook has.

Cooking is done both by people in their own dwellings and by professional cooks and chefs in restaurants and other food establishments.

Cooking can also occur through chemical reactions without the presence of heat, such as in ceviche, a traditional South American dish where fish is cooked with the acids in lemon or lime juice.

A recipe is a set of instructions that describes how to prepare or make something, especially a culinary dish.

It is also used in medicine or in information technology (user acceptance).

A doctor will usually begin a prescription with recipe, Latin for take, usually abbreviated to Rx or an equivalent symbol.

In a restaurant, there is a menu of food and beverage offerings.

A menu may be à la carte – which guests use to choose from a list of options – or table d'hôte, in which case a pre-established sequence of courses is served.

A meal is an eating occasion that takes place at a certain time and includes specific, prepared food, or the food eaten on that occasion.

The names used for specific meals in English vary greatly, depending on the speaker's culture, the time of day, or the size of the meal.