Cookbook

:For the 2005 Missy Elliott album, see The Cookbook.

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2005 - Missy Elliott - The Cookbook

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A cookbook contains information on cooking, and a list of recipes. It may also contain information on ingredient origin, freshness, selection and quality, e.g. the Slow Food movement's ark of taste criteria.

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Cooking - List of recipes - Slow Food - Ark of taste

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While western cookbooks usually group recipes for main courses by the main ingredient of the dishes, Japanese cookbooks usually group them by cooking techniques (e.g., fried foods, steamed foods, and grilled foods). Both styles of cookbook have additional recipe groupings such as soups, sweets.

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Japanese - Fried - Steam - Grill - Soup

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Famous cookbooks from the past include:

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• De re coquinaria (The Art of Cooking) (late 4th / early 5th century) by Apicius
• Liber de Coquina (The Book of Cookery) (late 13th / early 14th century) by two unknown authors from France and Italy
• The Forme of Cury (14th century) by the Master Cooks of King Richard II of England
• Viandier (14th century) by Guillaume Tirel alias Taillevent
• Le Cuisinier Royal (1817) by Alexandre Viard
• Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management ... (1861) by Mrs Beeton
• La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene (1891) by Pellegrino Artusi
• Various cookbooks (between 1903 and 1934) by Auguste Escoffier
• The Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer (1931)
• The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook (1954) by Alice B. Toklas
• Helen Gurley Brown's Single Girl's Cookbook (1969) by Helen Gurley Brown
• Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen

The term cookbook is sometimes used metaphorically to refer to any book containg already tried and tested "recipes" that others can use unchanged - for example a set of circuit designs in electronics, or the Anarchist Cookbook, a set of instructions on destruction and living outside the law.

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Electronics - Anarchist Cookbook

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