cookbook
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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
But with sneakers strewn in the doorway and a cookbook opened to a specific recipe, the faux house felt lived in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
While looking over the proofs for her latest cookbook, she picked up a marker and drew a mermaid.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
It would make a tasteful addition to any cookbook collection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
I borrowed a cookbook from Mrs. Kanagawa and made a different dinner every night.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
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
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
"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
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
The walls were decorated with shelves of cookbooks but several tables were loaded down with trays of cookies, cakes, ice cream, and fruit!
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
