I don’t care if you cook at a country club, a super-cool indie restaurant or in a grocery store, at some point in your career the idea of being featured in a cookbook has crossed your mind. It might have been just for a semester while you were in culinary school. Maybe it's something your mom bugs you about at the holidays. Maybe you lie in bed every night dreaming up potential covers. A book kind of legitimatizes a blue-collar job like cooking.