The allure of cookbooks

In this digital age, cracking open a glossy new cookbook still makes my heart beat a little faster. There’s something about holding a heavy cookbook in your hands, opening the spine for the first time, touching the pages and anticipating what’s inside. The recipes and all the glorious food porn. Cookbooks are the best books. You can devour them like a novel from front to back or go straight to a recipe you can’t wait to try. Cookbooks offer a new adventure every time you open one and speak volumes sitting on a kitchen windowsill or coffee table. Yet, basically every recipe is available online. So … what is the allure of hard-copy cookbooks?