2. (noun) cooking.
Nō waenganui o ngā te tekau tau mai i 1830, ka taetae mai ngā kaiwhakaako Karaitiana ki Te Māhia. E taki kauwhau ana i te rangimārie; kia whakamutua te tao tangata; kia whakakorehia ngā mahi whawhai (TTR 1990:245). / By the mid 1830s, Christian teachers had arrived at Māhia and were preaching peace, an end to cooking people and an end to fighting.