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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cookbook
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
write
▪ Prudhomme said the learning process was similar to that he undertook before writing a low-fat cookbook.
▪ Thomas said she would also like to write a cookbook.
▪ She had become editor of the food section and had written a cookbook.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an illustrated cookbook of Mexican recipes
▪ an illustrated cookbook
▪ I got this recipe from the Green's cookbook.
▪ Peters is the author of the popular cookbook 'Doing it in the Kitchen'.
▪ We have several French cookbooks in stock.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this isn't a cookbook.
▪ I collect cookbooks, and I hope this is what she wants.
▪ I went through cookbooks to see what I might do with it.
▪ Prudhomme said the learning process was similar to that he undertook before writing a low-fat cookbook.
▪ The increasing emphasis on meatless meals in restaurants and in cookbooks also provides inspiration to home cooks minding a budget.
▪ There are two ways of tackling this problem: strengthen auditors' independence or have an immensely detailed cookbook of accounting rules.
▪ This series of cookbooks illustrates each stage of every recipe with attractive colour photographs that show you exactly what to do.
▪ We browse through my cookbooks, perusing recipes, not as formulas or prescriptions but as hints and inspirations for impromptu inventions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cookbook

Cookbook \Cook"book`\ (-b[oo^]k`), n. A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book. [U.S.]

``Just How'': a key to the cookbooks.
--Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cookbook

1809, from cook + book (n.). Earlier was cookery book (1630s).

Wiktionary
cookbook

alt. A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips. n. A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.

WordNet
cookbook

n. a book of recipes and cooking directions [syn: cookery book]

Wikipedia
Cookbook

A cookbook (sometimes cookery book in Commonwealth English or cook book) is a kitchen reference publication that typically contains a collection of recipes.

Modern versions may also include colorful illustrations and advice on purchasing quality ingredients or making substitutions. Cookbooks can also cover a wide variety of topics, including cooking techniques for the home, recipes and commentary from famous chefs, institutional kitchen manuals, and cultural commentary.

Usage examples of "cookbook".

He had holly and mistletoe flown in and kept in the refrigerator until it was time to put them up, and Alberta entered into the spirit of the season by scouring cookbooks for traditional Christmas recipes.

In her favorite cookbook, opposite a creamy hollandaise recipe, she kept memories of a less complicated era and the truest connection a man and a woman could possibly share.

He became an expert microbiotic chef, lost eighty pounds and wrote a best-selling celebrity cookbook.

I left Phnom Penh I could have written a Cambodian cookbook called 50 Ways to Wok Your Dog.

Lake Eden potluck cookbook and the head of the cookbook committee, Hannah had the power to accept or reject as she saw fit.

Baudelaire orphans copied the puttanesca recipe from the cookbook onto a piece of scrap paper, and Justice Strauss was kind enough to escort them to the market to buy the necessary ingredients.

She stood one of the folders in the kitchen between the cookbooks that she had used over the years in her efforts to please Doug.

Emily thought of the folder that stood between her cookbooks, and the identical one safely stowed upstairs.

Long division was taught as a set of rules from a cookbook, with no explanation of how this particular sequence of short divisions, multiplications and subtractions got you the right answer.

This cookbook, prepared after several months on Earth sampling its fare and discussing culinary matters with both master chefs and a sampling of ordinary humans is a modest attempt to remedy this unfortunate situation.

We passed a restaurant and a combination news and gift shop selling hard- and paperback books, glossy magazines, newspapers, Texas barbecue sauces, Tex-Mex cookbooks, and T-shirts with Texas logos.

Cobb's personal cookbook from the small desk and looked for his favorite coconut cream cake with apricot filling, but the handwriting defeated him.

In the tradition of the cookbook, he substituted a cup of red peppers for the suggested cup of green peppers.

During the last couple of years there have been several manuals circulating among the subversive underground: bomb cookbooks that make do-it-yourselfing sound easy.

But rather than a moral theology or a cookbook course on getting to heaven, these groups offer their followers a scientific or quasi-scientific method of achieving heightened awareness or a transcendent consciousness in the here and now.