Cookbook
noun
A book that gives instructions on how to prepare and cook food.
She has a huge collection of Italian cookbooks.
Often appears as...
- bake from a cookbook
- buy a cookbook
noun
A reference book or manual about a specific topic.
You can refer to the JavaScript cookbook for coding solutions.
Often appears as...
- software cookbook
- coding cookbook
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A book that gives instructions on how to prepare and cook food.
She has a huge collection of Italian cookbooks.
Often appears as...
- bake from a cookbook
- buy a cookbook
noun
A reference book or manual about a specific topic.
You can refer to the JavaScript cookbook for coding solutions.
Often appears as...
- software cookbook
- coding cookbook
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Classics
Cookbooks often reflect cultural cuisine and may include interesting historical or family stories alongside recipes.
Her Greek cookbook not only had recipes but also tales of her grandmother's village.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Recipes
Some cookbooks provide cooking tips, techniques, and explanations of ingredients, not just step-by-step recipes.
The cookbook had a whole section on how to knead dough properly.
Pro Tip 3/3Gift Material
Cookbooks can be a common personal gift, especially for someone who enjoys cooking or a particular type of food.
For her birthday, I gave her a cookbook on Indian street food.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Classics
Cookbooks often reflect cultural cuisine and may include interesting historical or family stories alongside recipes.
Her Greek cookbook not only had recipes but also tales of her grandmother's village.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Recipes
Some cookbooks provide cooking tips, techniques, and explanations of ingredients, not just step-by-step recipes.
The cookbook had a whole section on how to knead dough properly.
Pro Tip 3/3Gift Material
Cookbooks can be a common personal gift, especially for someone who enjoys cooking or a particular type of food.
For her birthday, I gave her a cookbook on Indian street food.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Classics
Cookbooks often reflect cultural cuisine and may include interesting historical or family stories alongside recipes.
Her Greek cookbook not only had recipes but also tales of her grandmother's village.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Recipes
Some cookbooks provide cooking tips, techniques, and explanations of ingredients, not just step-by-step recipes.
The cookbook had a whole section on how to knead dough properly.
Pro Tip 3/3Gift Material
Cookbooks can be a common personal gift, especially for someone who enjoys cooking or a particular type of food.
For her birthday, I gave her a cookbook on Indian street food.
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Sean Sherman: Why aren't...
There's so much to explore. There's so much flavor. There's so much health. And it's just super healthy, you know, and it's fun for chefs to create and play with all these flavors. Chefs should be really excited about getting to learn all of these plants that aren't in their diet because they're just going out of a French cookbook.
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Are we in control of our...
I had a sabbatical. I said, "I'll write about my research, if there's no other way. And then I'll get to do my cookbook." So, I wrote a book on my research. And it turned out to be quite fun in two ways. First of all, I enjoyed writing. But the more interesting thing was that I started learning from people.
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How one tree grows 40...
and to recreate centuries-old dishes that many of these varieties were grown specifically for. Extending beyond the physical site of the orchard, it will be a cookbook that compiles all of those recipes. It will be a field guide that talks about the characteristics and traits of those fruit,
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RNAi: Slicing, dicing...
You can think of your cells as the kitchen in a busy restaurant. Sometimes your body orders chicken. Other times, it orders steak. Your cells have to be able to crank out whatever the body needs and quickly. When an order comes in, the chef looks to the cookbook, your DNA,
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Nathan Myhrvold: Cut...
But hey, they grow back. In addition to cutaways, we also explain physics. This is Fourier's law of heat conduction. It's a partial differential equation. We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it. But to make them palatable,
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Curiosity, discovery and...
starts off with the scientific method. You recognize this? Ask a question, form a hypothesis, perform an experiment, collect data, draw conclusions, and then memorize a bunch of facts. This is really boring! Science is not a simple recipe in a cookbook,
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What is your entrepreneur...
only takes about five minutes now what did we find we found first and foremost there is no one singular recipe for entrepreneurial success people want a recipe people want to connect the dots strategy people want a cookbook a
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A forgotten ancient...
I wanted to contribute to that universal civilization Senghor had described. But I didn't know how to make a measurable impact as a cook and writer. While I was writing my first cookbook,
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A Rare Look Into the...
Hangover Chaser Tea I think this one was made for export. Money that was no longer in circulation, a debit card from the bank, sheet music for piano, a cookbook from North Korea.
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How Schools Can Nurture...
And the sixth-graders use food to learn about each other's cultures. They created cookbooks with recipes and stories from their countries of origin.
Video examples
Sean Sherman: Why aren't...
There's so much to explore. There's so much flavor. There's so much health. And it's just super healthy, you know, and it's fun for chefs to create and play with all these flavors. Chefs should be really excited about getting to learn all of these plants that aren't in their diet because they're just going out of a French cookbook.
Video examples
Are we in control of our...
I had a sabbatical. I said, "I'll write about my research, if there's no other way. And then I'll get to do my cookbook." So, I wrote a book on my research. And it turned out to be quite fun in two ways. First of all, I enjoyed writing. But the more interesting thing was that I started learning from people.
Video examples
How one tree grows 40...
and to recreate centuries-old dishes that many of these varieties were grown specifically for. Extending beyond the physical site of the orchard, it will be a cookbook that compiles all of those recipes. It will be a field guide that talks about the characteristics and traits of those fruit,
Video examples
RNAi: Slicing, dicing...
You can think of your cells as the kitchen in a busy restaurant. Sometimes your body orders chicken. Other times, it orders steak. Your cells have to be able to crank out whatever the body needs and quickly. When an order comes in, the chef looks to the cookbook, your DNA,
Video examples
Nathan Myhrvold: Cut...
But hey, they grow back. In addition to cutaways, we also explain physics. This is Fourier's law of heat conduction. It's a partial differential equation. We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it. But to make them palatable,
Video examples
Curiosity, discovery and...
starts off with the scientific method. You recognize this? Ask a question, form a hypothesis, perform an experiment, collect data, draw conclusions, and then memorize a bunch of facts. This is really boring! Science is not a simple recipe in a cookbook,
Video examples
What is your entrepreneur...
only takes about five minutes now what did we find we found first and foremost there is no one singular recipe for entrepreneurial success people want a recipe people want to connect the dots strategy people want a cookbook a
Video examples
A forgotten ancient...
I wanted to contribute to that universal civilization Senghor had described. But I didn't know how to make a measurable impact as a cook and writer. While I was writing my first cookbook,
Video examples
A Rare Look Into the...
Hangover Chaser Tea I think this one was made for export. Money that was no longer in circulation, a debit card from the bank, sheet music for piano, a cookbook from North Korea.
Video examples
How Schools Can Nurture...
And the sixth-graders use food to learn about each other's cultures. They created cookbooks with recipes and stories from their countries of origin.
Example 1 of 10
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Johnny Mathis
American Musician
I have one room off my kitchen filled with nothing but cookbooks and recipes that are sent to me from around the world. Every two years, I have to go through them and pick out ones to send to the local schools. There's a need for books, especially cookbooks.
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Laurie Colwin
American Author
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.
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Michael Symon
American Chef
Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.
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Daniel Humm
Swiss Chef
A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the meals have been eaten, and the experience is gone.
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Jordin Sparks
American Musician
I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.
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Marcus Samuelsson
Ethiopian Chef
I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.
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Alex Guarnaschelli
American Chef
Once you make a cookbook, you live with it as your own for the rest of your life, like a yearbook.
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Isabel Gillies
American Actress
Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak.
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Rachel Khoo
British Chef
My cookbooks are like a personal journey for me, they're like a chapter in my life.
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Jose Andres
Spanish Chef
Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.
Quote examples
Johnny Mathis
American Musician
I have one room off my kitchen filled with nothing but cookbooks and recipes that are sent to me from around the world. Every two years, I have to go through them and pick out ones to send to the local schools. There's a need for books, especially cookbooks.
Quote examples
Laurie Colwin
American Author
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.
Quote examples
Michael Symon
American Chef
Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.
Quote examples
Daniel Humm
Swiss Chef
A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the meals have been eaten, and the experience is gone.
Quote examples
Jordin Sparks
American Musician
I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.
Quote examples
Marcus Samuelsson
Ethiopian Chef
I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.
Quote examples
Alex Guarnaschelli
American Chef
Once you make a cookbook, you live with it as your own for the rest of your life, like a yearbook.
Quote examples
Isabel Gillies
American Actress
Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak.
Quote examples
Rachel Khoo
British Chef
My cookbooks are like a personal journey for me, they're like a chapter in my life.
Quote examples
Jose Andres
Spanish Chef
Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.
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