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cookbook

[kook-book] / ˈkʊkˌbʊk /


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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

“We created this cookbook as a resource to help you find your way through the aisles and back home to your kitchen,” Kwon said in a release.

From Salon Jul. 23, 2026

While looking over the proofs for her latest cookbook, she picked up a marker and drew a mermaid.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

She then followed it up with another New York Times best cookbook of the year, "Simple Pasta."

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

The submissions ranged from the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights to a Russian cookbook.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

The bookshelves in the room were a rich mix of cookbooks and psychology books.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 2026

The illustrated recipes that he published in London newspapers in the 1960s and collected into a pair of cookbooks are credited with helping British men get cooking.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

It had been years, but I could picture the tin of dog treats on a shelf next to a stack of cookbooks.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour




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