Ang kahulugan ng diksyunaryo ng salitang "pagluluto" ay ang sining, kasanayan, o kasanayan sa paghahanda at pagluluto ng pagkain. Ito ay ang proseso ng paggamit ng iba't ibang pamamaraan, pamamaraan, at sangkap upang lumikha ng masarap at masustansyang pagkain. Ang termino ay maaari ding tumukoy sa hanay ng mga pagkain, recipe, at istilo ng pagluluto na nauugnay sa isang partikular na kultura o lutuin. Ang pagluluto ay makikita bilang parehong malikhain at praktikal na aktibidad na nangangailangan ng kaalaman, karanasan, at kadalubhasaan sa pagpili, paghahanda, at pagluluto ng mga sangkap.
1. Without any aid from the science of cookery, he was immediately employed, in common with his fellows, in gorging himself with this digestible sustenance.
2. A very summary process completed the simple cookery, when he and the Mohicans commenced their humble meal, with the silence and characteristic diligence of men who ate in order to enable themselves to endure great and unremitting toil.
3. It was silent and gloomy, being tenanted solely by the captive, and lighted by the dying embers of a fire, which had been used for the purposed of cookery.
4. By proper Shelter and Clothing we legitimately retain our own internal heat but with an excess of these, or of Fuel, that is, with an external heat greater than our own internal, may not cookery properly be said to begin?
5. As I preferred some things to others, and especially valued my freedom, as I could fare hard and yet succeed well, I did not wish to spend my time in earning rich carpets or other fine furniture, or delicate cookery, or a house in the Grecian or the Gothic style just yet.
6. It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.
7. With looks of amazement, they accepted the aluminum alloy cooking pots, and it became apparent the tribe would treasure the hard, shiny, cookery.