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cheffery

noun

Etymology

From chef + -ery. Piecewise doublet of chiefery.

  1. derived from caput
  2. derived from capus
  3. derived from chief
  4. suffixed as cheffery — “chef + ery”

Definitions

  1. The work or art of a chef

    The work or art of a chef; culinary skill.

    • The dishes appear in a flurry of gel cubes, purées, emulsions and other cheffery.
    • Well, when we got together on Saturday for lunch, I started talking to my brother-in-law about cheffery and asking him about how to shop for knives. Somehow we get talking about sauces.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cheffery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA