Culinary means to do with cooking and the kitchen. Culinary skills, a culinary tradition, culinary school.
It is a formal word and goes before the noun, so people speak of culinary skills rather than saying the cooking is culinary. Culinary herbs are the ones grown to eat rather than to look at.
1adjectiveculinaryTo do with cooking and the kitchen.
“His culinary skills went no further than toast.”
culinary is a quality.
Latin culinarius comes from culina, a kitchen.
Proto-Indo-European
*pekʷ-
Latin
culīnārius
French
culinaire
English, today
culinary
Built from
French culinaire, itself a borrowing from Latin culīnārius, from culīna (“kitchen”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA