Plural of cooking; multiple instances of preparing food with heat, or various methods and styles of cooking.
From 'cook' plus '-ing' (the gerund/present participle suffix) plus '-s' (pluralization). This creates a noun from the verb form, allowing cooking to be counted as discrete instances.
The gerund 'cooking' is special—it's simultaneously a verb (he is cooking) and a noun (cooking is fun), making it do double duty in English grammar. Few languages handle this as elegantly as English does.
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