Cookbook
Cook Book Paper Mario.png Cookbook TTYD.png Icon of an item from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)
Paper Mario description A book Gourmet Guy dropped. Show it to a good cook.
The Thousand-Year Door description A rather old cookbook penned by Maitre Delish.
“Oh, my! Oh, good heavens!! That book you have! It looks like a Cookbook!♥ I could increase my repertoire in an instant with that book. Mario, if it's okay with you... may I have it?”
Tayce T., Paper Mario

The Cookbook is a special item in the Paper Mario series. It gives a chef the ability to combine various items, creating new items in the process as a discovered recipe.

It is first seen in Paper Mario, in which the book is found in Shy Guy's Toy Box, stolen by a Shy Guy during the events of Chapter 4. When Mario gives Gourmet Guy a Cake (baked by Tayce T. after Mario returns her Frying Pan), Gourmet Guy jumps around the area and flies offscreen, dropping the Cookbook. When Mario visits Tayce T. with the Cookbook in his inventory, she will notice the book and asks Mario if she can have it. After Mario hands her the Cookbook, she gains the ability to increase her repertoire by cooking two items to make a combined recipe.

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the Cookbook is hidden in the Creepy Steeple and is the work of the famous chef Maitre Delish. To obtain this Cookbook, Mario must roll into a tube and enter a small hole near the entrance of the inside of the Steeple. It is given to Zess T. during the "Seeking legendary book!" trouble. It has the same effects as in Paper Mario, allowing Zess T. to cook an item from two ingredients.

Names in other languagesEdit

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese おりょうりのほん[1] Cookbook Paper Mario
おりょうりの本[?]
Oryōri no Hon
The Thousand-Year Door
Chinese (simplified) 食谱[2]
Shípǔ
Cookbook Paper Mario
料理书[?]
Liàolǐ Shū
Cooking Book The Thousand-Year Door remake
Chinese (traditional) 料理書[?]
Liàolǐ Shū
Cooking Book
Dutch Kookboek[?] Cookbook
French Livre cuisine[?] Cookbook
German Kochbuch[?] Cookbook
Italian Ricettario[?] Cookbook
Korean 요리책[?]
Yorichaek
Cookbook
Spanish Libro de Recetas[?] Recipe Book

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ "Paper Mario: From Japanese to English". (June 17, 2013). The Mushroom Kingdom. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
  2. ^ Darth Koopa. (Jan 10, 2022). iQue PAPER MARIO PART 25. YouTube. Retrieved January 14, 2022.