Yes, says Slate.
From the piece...
I’m not exactly objective about this. When I was a teenager, my idea
of a relaxing after-school activity was to read cookbooks in my family’s
La-Z-Boy, salivating over the photography, relishing droll turns of
phrase, and dog-earing recipes I wanted to try. My first job out of
college was as an assistant for a successful cookbook author, a position
for which I spent thousands of hours writing, testing, and editing
recipes. Cookbooks dominate my bookshelves. A good friend ghostwrites
cookbooks for famous chefs. You’d be hard-pressed to imagine someone
more predisposed to be sentimental about cookbooks than me.
And yet I’m not only certain of the imminent demise of the print
cookbook—I’m fine with it. That’s because print cookbooks offer nothing
that apps, e-books, and websites can’t, despite print enthusiasts’
efforts to recast them as objets d’art.
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