Cooking and Meal

Cooking

Cooking noun - The art or style of preparing food (as in a specified region).

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Meal and cooking are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Meal" instead a noun "Cooking".

Nearby Words: cook, cooked, cookery, cooker

Meal noun - Food eaten or prepared for eating at one time.

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Cooking and meal are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cooking" instead a noun "Meal".

Nearby Words: meat, mealtime, mealed

fancy	fancy cooking	fancy meal
good	good cooking	good meal
nice	nice cooking	nice meal
fine	fine cooking	fine meal
Other adjectives: normal, complete, proper, plain, healthy, actual, real, great, excellent, delicious, traditional, giant, southern, vegetarian.

An episode of The IT Crowd had Moss go to a German cannibal, mistaking the classified ad as being for a cooking class instead of for a volunteer meal.

Source: Invited As Dinner
Even though the person may not be eating the food themselves, many become obsessed with meal planning and cooking food for other people.

Source: Obsessed with Food
She's always cooking for Joshua (to the point where he raves over her pudding), and she also scolds Shader for eating canned food and gives her a home-cooked meal as soon as she sees her again.

Source: Through His Stomach

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