@andys_attic
The cookbook category has been reorganized. Unfortunately it was done in a way that makes it particularly difficult to conduct searches.
Previously when you searched for, say:
spanish cookbook
eBay's "smart search" would send you to the "Cookbook" category, and search for items that had "spanish" in the title.
Currently, there is no "Cookbook" category. The same search now sends you to the "Nonfiction" category, and finds every book that contains "spanish" in the title, which is quite a few, the vast majority having nothing at all to do with cookbooks.
To get around the broken search, try either putting one of your search terms in quotes, like this:
spanish "cookbook"
or else try adding a nonsense exclusion term, like this:
spanish cookbook -pterodactyl
Either of those searches will find items with both "spanish" and "cookbook" in the title.
The technique of adding quotes around an individual search word or adding a nonsense exclusion term is useful whenever you encounter a search that is returning results that do not match your keywords, which seems to be happening more and more lately.
