cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"

squid - widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins

seafood - edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc

Italia, Italian Republic, Italy - a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD

decapod - cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones

loligo - somewhat flattened cylindrical squid

ommastrephes - extremely active cylindrical squid with short strong arms and large rhombic terminal fins

architeuthis, giant squid - largest mollusk known about but never seen (to 60 feet long)

calamari, calamary, squid - (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food