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    Best-Selling Cookbooks of All Time

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    From Mastering the Art of French Cooking to the Joy of Cooking, check out which cookbooks sold the most copies-
    Did you know that Vincent Price wrote a cookbook, or that there's... more 
    Photo by: © Yasmin Fahr
    From Mastering the Art of French Cooking to the Joy of Cooking, check out which cookbooks sold the most copies-
    Did you know that Vincent Price wrote a cookbook, or that there's a Beanie Baby's cookbook? Probably not. That's because for every blockbuster best-seller like the seminal Joy of Cooking, there are thousands of cookbooks like the truly puzzling Eat Your Feelings: Recipes for Self-Loathing that fade into obscurity. But despite the overwhelming odds of becoming a quickly forgotten cookbook, like Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price, a few have managed to overcome these odds, and have gone on to become some of the best-selling cookbooks of all time.

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    - Naa Ako-Adjei, The Daily Meal



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