cookbook
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cookbooks
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Origin of cookbook
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The ricotta-and-fig-jam toast she made for Sofia Coppola, whom she met in the bathroom of an Air France lounge, comes from her latest cookbook “Simply Ina.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Later in that same conversation, he described the larger project — his cookbook, “The Choi of Cooking” — as learning to have “the courage to be kind to yourself.”
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
“The Settlement Cook Book” was the first mainstream cookbook containing a significant number of Jewish recipes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
They keep trying to give me whatever I look at, and finally I accept a celebrity cookbook.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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
These are inspired by the butter-soaked spiced Saltines that have long floated around Southern church cookbooks, family recipe boxes and bar snack menus.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
“They tucked them into purses, filing cabinets, cookbooks and memory boxes because they believed they would be valuable someday. We think they were right.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
A pair of cookbooks serve traditional recipes and a dash of history from coastal locales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
“Why don’t you get some cookbooks? You have books of every other kind. I’m sure you’d find cookbooks a help.”
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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