Back when I was developing applications with Microsoft Access, one of my favorite reference books–that I often described as being worth its weight in gold–was the Access Cookbook. I actually learned VBA by going through the chunks of code in the book that were geared towards addressing common problems.

So I was tickled this afternoon when I stumbled upon Gastronomy for Geeks, the O’Reilly Community Cookbook.

An O’Reilly cookbook with actual recipes.

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