Cook Books Published as Recipe Cards

What I wouldn’t give to have some popular cookbooks like Rombauer’s The Joy of Cooking, Bittman’s How to Cook Everything, Better Homes & Gardens’ New Cook Book, Brown’s Good Eats, America’s Test Kitchen books, or Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street published as recipe cards in 4 x 6 inch index card format. While their book formats are lovely and lend themselves to lean back aspirational food content, they’re not so great in an actual kitchen. If all the content was on the front of the card, perhaps with those aspirational photos on the back, and a reasonable tabbed index and packaged for sale in a nice cardboard card index box , I’m sure my kitchen life would be far better. Can one of the recipe giants produce something as functional for use in the kitchen as their recipes? If they wanted to go crazy, they could also: offer a deluxe wooden card index with a thin, angled notch on the top to hold the recipe as an easy display while cooking; print the cards in high quality in such a manner…