cookbook.
A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
Meaning & usage
A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
They inherited an interesting nineteenth-century cookbook from their grandparents. It tells how to render lard.
Any book or set of strategies and tips.
The Anarchist Cookbook
Reading business biographies is interesting, but they are not cookbooks that can teach hacks how to be greats.
Where this word comes from
From cook + book; possibly also a calque of German Kochbuch, from kochen (“cook”) + Buch (“book”).
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