cookbook

British, cookery book

[kook-book]

noun

1. a book containing recipes and instructions for cooking.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cookbook¹

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10; cook ¹ + book

Example Sentences

The Wi-Fi in my building was spotty at best, so I made the campus library my office, spreading out back issues of “Martha Stewart Living” and stacks of cookbooks across a long wooden table.

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Proud of their roots, cooks and chefs are upholding recipes and techniques passed down over the stove and via old cookbooks that date back centuries.

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But she’s also a certified health coach who has written a cookbook.

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Look deeper at cookbooks and restaurant menus, and you’ll see other more subtle threads.

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When she published her second cookbook, “It’s All Good,” in 2013, The Atlantic called it the “Bible of Laughable Hollywood Neuroticism” and said she “had gone over the edge.”

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Related Words

• guide 
• guidebook 
• handbook 
• reference book 
• text 
• textbook 
• workbook