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Discover LudwigThe word 'cookbook' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a book that contains recipes, instructions, and information about cooking. For example: My mother gave me her old cookbook filled with family recipes.
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cookbook
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A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
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JW Instagram isn't all overhead shots of people's dinner: Bart Van Olphsen – cookbook author, ex-fish trader and sustainability champion – has an account dedicated to super-short cookery videos.
When I was writing my cookbook, Made in India: Cooked in Britain, the sausage curry was the only thing Mum and I argued about.
Penguin signed her up to write an austerity cookbook (due out in February 2014).
Each week, Jim invites a guest chef, and their success has even inspired a cookbook on group catering, Throw a Great Party: Inspired by Evenings in Paris with Jim Haynes (iUniverse, £9).
The classic Italian cookbook Silver Spoon astounds me by using boiled long-grain rice for its supplì al telefono, a Roman rice croquette similar to arancini, which takes its name from the long "telephone wires" of melted mozzarella that are said to stretch out when you take a bite.
Parla is an experienced critic and writer and is currently working on a Roman cookbook to add to her existing catalogue of guides to the city.
Looking for that cookbook you remember from your childhood?
Claire Thomson's debut cookbook, The Five O'Clock Apron, is published on 19 February by Ebury at £20.
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Books by K.M. Mathew, Kerala's premier cookbook-writer, are full of injunctions such as: "fry it little by little" and "do not use your hand to take flour".
If Britons have heard of Martha Stewart it is more for her dodgy financial dealings than for her gingerbread.Britain and America are the two great cookbook-writing nations, which is not the same as being nations of great cooks.
I thought I had the perfect recipe for the deadliest chocolate cake until I read Claire Ptak's The Violet Bakery Cookbook, and discovered how well rye works in the mix.
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