I found a cook book.

我发现了一本烹调书！

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I had been trying to cook eggs, as I had read in some book, by burying them in the earth under a fire of sticks.

我还试过煮鸡蛋——有本书说，把鸡蛋埋在土里，再点上一把火，就可以在洞里煮蛋了。

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One in ten women can cook fewer than three meals without looking at a recipe book or asking for help.

十分之一的女性在不查看食谱书或没有帮助的情况下，连三道菜也做不出。

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They employ them as an amateur chef employs a cook book, believing the recipes will work without understanding why.

ECONOMIST: Scientific publishing

To get her own back at Mr Bernstein, in a way befitting her love of food and her urge to cook, Ms Ephron in her book threw a key lime pie at him.

ECONOMIST: Nora Ephron and Lonesome George