Examples of cookbook

• She was consulting the pages of her cookbook, as a preliminary to preparing a special dessert for Sunday's dinner, and was humming as she did so. 

• Most publications on the topic put forward an idealised model brief, or offer a 'cookbook' of tips, rarely acknowledging the fundamental problems.

• Like most cookbooks, it is best sampled selectively.

• I agree, for much 'geochemistry' is of the empirical and cookbook varieties.

• Of course, standards of care are not cookbooks to be applied by the numbers.

• Compilers of cookbooks will go to great lengths - some might say absurd lengths to be seen as not endorsing a particular product.

• All in all, it is both a useful textbook and a quick reference book that offers stimulating ideas beyond a 'cookbook' approach.

• This is a good cookbook for modern building.