What's the point of cookbooks?

(genuinely asking)

Earlier this week someone mused to me, “What’s the point of cookbooks?”

I wryly replied that I ask myself that every day. Then I realised that in one way or another I really do spend a lot of my time looking at all the different versions of that answer.

Today’s feature was, therefore, intended to my musings on the point of cookbooks but yesterday I got …