Cookery Books

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I have so many cookbooks as my daughter did a professional chef's course, but why would anyone buy them?
You can just Google a recipe for the ingredients you have.
She does this and I do this.
Cookbooks are nice for the pictures but nothing else.

Why would anyone buy cookery books?     Well the reason I buy them is that I value cultural context when it comes to cookery and I enjoy reading about the background and development of recipes.   I also appreciate that good cookery books are edited and the recipes tested.   

 I rarely look up recipes on the internet, partly because they cannot be relied on, partly because so many are in blogs that have a financial interest in being as wordy as possible and I can't be bothered wading through pages of poorly written and repetitive trivia to get to the actual recipe.