Example Sentences

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Cookbooks that teach that kind of fluency — sharpening not just your knife skills but your sense of season and taste — are rare.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2025

“She was the doyenne of American cookbook dealers,” said Bonnie Slotnick, the owner of Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks, an out-of-print and antiquarian bookstore in Manhattan.

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2022

Cookbooks are central to the plot — artifacts of Wiggins’ childhood among a family of grocers.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2022

Cookbooks are bringing me great joy, seeing images of the places we loved, and then tasting some of those same flavors.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2022

Cookbooks, slavishly followed, can lead one into voodoo programming, but are useful for hackers trying to monkey up small programs in unknown languages.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.