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cookbook

[kook-book] / ˈkʊkˌbʊk /


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“The Settlement Cook Book” was the first mainstream cookbook containing a significant number of Jewish recipes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

We tend to assume the next clever kitchen system will come from a new cookbook, a viral freezer hack or somebody else’s meticulously labeled meal-prep containers.

From Salon Aug. 25, 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

Dame Prue's Bake Off predecessor, Dame Mary, will chat to the show's former host, comedian Mel Giedroyc, to discuss her second great love of gardening and her forthcoming cookbook.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Then my eyes landed on the Ruby Willow cookbook sitting on my nightstand.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks

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

Spend enough time cooking — or leafing through cookbooks in bed — and you notice certain ingredients keep reaching for one another.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

“I do not understand people who say they read cookbooks like novels,” writes Ms. Bush, now the pastry chef at a Brooklyn restaurant.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 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

He combed through her cookbooks every afternoon, following her penciled instructions to use two teaspoons of ground coriander seeds instead of one, or red lentils instead of yellow.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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