cookbook

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• cook book

From cook +‎ book; possibly also a calque of German Kochbuch, from kochen (“cook”) + Buch (“book”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊkˌbʊk/

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cookbook (plural cookbooks)

2. A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.

   Synonyms: cookery book, recipe book

   They inherited an interesting nineteenth-century cookbook from their grandparents. It tells how to render lard.

4. (by extension, figurative) Any book or set of strategies and tips.

   Near-synonym: playbook

   The Anarchist Cookbook

   Reading business biographies is interesting, but they are not cookbooks that can teach hacks how to be greats.