Don't let this happen to your cookbooks. If your stovetop cooking is starting to smell funky, maybe you are cooking the wrong thing, eh? I confess I did this.
So, threee words: stop cookbook abuse
I know and you may know or not know that there are several uses of the word "stop." It's a verb in two classes, a noun and an adjective.
I am not brave enough to look into all the definitions and uses of "abuse". That must be a scary place.
Yet, "cookbook", according to Merriam-Webster dictionary,a noun first used in 1809 has one meaning - "a book of cooking directions and recipes." Why I love it so, really. There is no need to be more here. Merriam-Webster went one more, the dictionary has listed rhymes with cookbook. Examples are: checkbook, bankbook, billhook, -hook, - hook, .... oh, and my favorite, Chinook. WhaaaaT? Stop cookbook abuse.
A cookbook: complicated, mysterious, and beautiful on the inside. No rhymes. Keep them off the stove.
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