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In a market increasingly dominated by "content" created by inexperienced and undercompensated writers or spat forth from AI, THE COOKBOOK TEST is a human voice speaking in communion with other human voices. It's an attempt to interrogate, explore, understand, deconstruct, and play with the heart and soul of other people's cookery, with an aim to opening new windows, discovering new techniques, and generally just messing around in the kitchen. THE COOKBOOK TEST puts a premium on hospitality: are these recipes that help make people (including the cook) happy? Are they flawed bits of genius? Are they mostly rubbish? We'll find out, together, one book at a time.