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Printed cookbooks will never go away. We all have them...sitting in a kitchen drawer with their front covers riddled with stains of grease spots with pages that were once white and are now a sort of peach-orange or just a grayish-brown color falling out. The printed cookbook can be viewed in the same light as that Family Bible that sits on the coffee table in the living room reserved for holidays or as the family album that you loved to look at as a child, that holds all the memories of your life.

Family is the keyword to use when talking about the printed cookbook, because how many families do you think a printed cookbook has brought together? From its crisp pages have come countless recipes that have had their fragrant scents engulf households, dishes that were so good that they seemed sublime and desserts that were so delightful that it felt as if it would be a sin before God to take that last bite!

They are like opened treasure chests filled with precious gems waiting for their chance to shine; they hold secrets passed from one generation to the next partaking in their own legacies. Printed cookbooks contain recipes that you will NEVER find on any website, appetizers and entrees that are filled with love and soul because that is what they were made with. Before most recipes made it to the pages of a cookbook, they were made for something much more important, for the creator of each recipe must have had someone special in mind, someone who was closest to their heart as they created each delectable dish.

They help to comfort the weary and the mourning, the sick and the downtrodden; this is something that a recipe printed off of a website could never do. Moreover, there is something very powerful about the bound pages of a book, for when you open its cover it is as if you are opening a doorway into a new realm of possibilities. Like an encyclopedia, it can captivate your mind with all of the uniquely named dishes, dishes that can take you on a journey across the globe learning more about different culture.

With every flip of the page you can almost smell each savory meat roasting in the ovens of Italy, every vegetable being steamed to perfection in China, every frosted fruit sliced and diced to create a melody of colors in Brazil. The printed cookbook gives life to the foods even before they are put to a stove...and that means something to many people, that the printed cookbook constitutes life and patience, resilience and timelessness. It is a book of proverbs without the proverbs, but the precepts are no less wise.

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