A cookbook is a book that contains information on cooking, and a list of recipes. It may also contain information on ingredient origin, freshness, selection and quality, e.g. the Slow Food movement's ark of taste criteria.While western cookbooks usually group recipes for main courses by the main ingredient of the dishes, Japanese cookbooks usually group them by cooking techniques (e.g., fried foods, steamed foods, and grilled foods). Both styles of cookbook have additional recipe groupings such as soups, sweets.

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Despite Beijing's warnings that it would severely punish officials falsifying economic statistics, regional officials continue to cook the books to inflate local economic growth. China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 10.9% in the first half of this year but the average of GDP growth rates of the 31 provinces in China far exceeded 12%.