cookbook
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cookbooks
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“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
Dame Prue's Bake Off predecessor, Dame Mary, will chat to the show's former host, comedian Mel Giedroyc, to discuss her second great love of gardening and her forthcoming cookbook.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 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
One ritual the men looked forward to was hearing a recipe from a small paperback cookbook that Marston had.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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
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
“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
“She works hard in the kitchen. She taught herself by watching videos and getting cookbooks from the library.”
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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