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is a book with a lot of stirring chapters.

A cookbook is a book with a lot of stirring chapters.

is a mystery book, for one can can never tell how it's gonna come out.

I gave my wife one of those mystery books for Christmas-a cookbook. With her, you can never tell how it's gonna come out!

is a kind of book which, for many of us, belongs in the fiction section of the bookstore.

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

 hits one where one lives. It provides comfort, security, and food, in a nice, gentle way that makes one feel loved.

Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only do you want those basic things fixed, you want it done in a really nice, gentle way that makes you feel loved. That's a big desire, and cookbooks say to the person reading them, 'If you will read me, you will be able to do this for yourself and for others. You will make everybody feel better.'

is a book whose only object can conceivably be no other than to increase the happiness of mankind.

in Joseph Conrad's introduction to his wife's 1923, Handbook of Cookery for a Small Home. “Of all the books ever written those only that treat of cooking are, from a moral point of view, above suspicion. The intention of every other piece of prose may be discussed and even mistrusted; but the purpose of a cookery book is one and unmistakable. Its object can conceivably be no other than to increase the happiness of mankind.”

is, no matter how great, no substitute for the poorest of dinners

 must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

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