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cookbooks

  • plural
    of cookbook.
    cookbook
    noun
    a book containing recipes and instructions for cooking.

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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

"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

“That’s for grease fires. They can be hard to put out. Anything about that in those cookbooks you brought?”

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson