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cookbook

[kook-book] / ˈkʊkˌbʊk /


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"Recently, a university student approached me in a restaurant to tell me my cookbook had helped her through her first year living independently and I was so happy."

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

Her pamphlet was so popular that she expanded it into a cookbook, published in 1901 as “The Way to a Man’s Heart,” also known as “The Settlement Cook Book.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

On Thursday, Grandma and I were in the kitchen getting ready to make fried Oreos, one of the recipes from Ruby Willow’s cookbook.

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

Through her cookbooks, magazines, television shows and retail housewares, Stewart became the personification of gracious living and America's most high-profile lifestyle expert.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

Behind them, cookbooks line the shelves, fruit has been arranged decoratively across the counters and every surface gleams with aspirational domestic ease.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

A pair of cookbooks serve traditional recipes and a dash of history from coastal locales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

“Well, God give y’all cookbooks for thet. Anyhow, when I got to ponderin’ on it last night, the word ast commenced to jump at me like sheep comin' over a fence.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns


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