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Cookbook
Cookbook (cookery book): a book of recipes and food-preparation information, a handbook-genre nonfiction form dating to Mesopotamian clay tablets ca. 1700 BCE, flourishing in late-medieval manuscripts and fifteenth-century printing.
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Mastering the Art of French Cooking, by Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle (Knopf, 1961; Volume Two 1970), is the 524-recipe cookbook that taught Americans classic French technique and, with The French Chef, launched America's food media boom.
Suiyuan shidan
Suiyuan shidan (随园食单, Recipes from the Garden of Contentment) is a Chinese cookbook by the Qing dynasty writer Yuan Mei, first published in 1792 and describing 326 dishes.