cookbook
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Chef and cookbook author Claire Thompson remembers her daughter Grace leaving home to go to university, and wondering: "Can she really cook?"
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Without a library, I would not have purchased every cookbook, obscure DVD and book about secretive magicians that caught my eye.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
After Kander died in 1940 at the age of 82, her successors worked to adapt her cookbook to post-World War II food trends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The excerpt below is a scene from a dinner party in which one character launches into a riff about the pervasiveness of Yotam Ottolenghi’s cookbook recipes at social gatherings.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
I hate that there are things—trivial things, like why she needed a newspaper clipping about a cookbook author who’d be visiting the library—that I never knew to ask Lucy about.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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She wrote a number of books, including ones about her life on tour, cookbooks and children’s books about her life and about the dangers of bullying.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
While spice master is an unofficial term—much like “spice therapist,” another that people have given Lev Sercarz, who says it makes him wince—his two cookbooks give the monikers credence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Scattered through old Southern community and church cookbooks are recipes for spiced Saltines: butter-soaked, herb-flecked, oven-baked until they darken to a toastier shade of gold.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
"Ultimately, the recipe has to be good – there are some really awful ones," she says, referencing strange combinations she has seen in cookbooks, including banana and herring and lamb and crab.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
“Why don’t you get some cookbooks? You have books of every other kind. I’m sure you’d find cookbooks a help.”
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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