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"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

Among this season’s new crop of cookbooks are two that open windows into cultures that deserve to be better known for their culinary culture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

I have a big pile of old cookbooks that inspired a lot of the specific dishes in the book, but the best resource was the New York magazine archives, particularly Gael Greene’s old columns.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

It was like her way of passing the cooking torch so that I could do my thing in the kitchen without having to open up one of those lame, thick, usually way too girly cookbooks.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds