A cookbook is a book that 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.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.

More questionable economic "reporting" from the Wall Street Journal. Everything is wonderful, the economy is doing just fine! What planet do these people live on?

When it comes to eating, what are the seven words to live by? How is cooking like football? And what do nutrition experts get wrong? Find out all this and more as Tom Philpott talks with food author Michael Pollan, who's just wrapping up his latest book. (Like, literally. He had to hang up with Tom to go FedEx his galley proofs.) Then check out the

Yes - a new series of the program that looked at the cooking of Britain today, some 1,500 recipes and the lives of the people who submitted them. The total recipe count was reduced to 60 and they will be printed in The People's Cookbook, to be published on 24th September this year 2007.Details below.

The novel deals with the story of an embittered judge who wants to retie in peace in his crumbling house in a small town Kalimpong in the Himalayas. But his life turns upside down with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter. The book follows the lives the judge, the granddaughter, the cook and the cook's son Bijou who lives in New York. Geogr