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Fun Cookbooks

These cookbooks are especially fun for one reason or another.

These are the fun cookbooks currently reviewed:

125 Best Chocolate Chip Recipes

Chocolate Chips are an American staple. Automatically, we add "cookie" after saying Chocolate Chip. Hasson wants us to broaden our horizons to include these little morsels in other foods.

Her book includes recipes for drinks, cakes, pies and a variety of other things. Of course, cookies are there too. Overall the recipes are pretty quick to make.

Hasson is a pastry chef who is talking to us in language we can all understand in this book. She gives us the benefit of her experience, demonstrating techniques and showing us the tools to get great results every time.

review posted 4 August 2004

Kids Can Cook

Backyard Gatherings

Beyond Burlap

by Junior League of Boise
published in 1997
ISBN 0-913743-97-6
Favorite Recipes Press
2451 Atrium Way, Nashville TN 37214
1-800-358-0560 for ordering
http://www.favoriterecipespress.com

About 200 recipes, all featuring potatoes, fill this book. It's a treasure trove of interesting facts about spuds.

Did you know that Russia grows more potatoes than any other country? Me neither. Marilyn Monroe helped the image of Idaho Potatoes when a photograph of her wearing a potato sack dress was published around the world. It was a skimpy dress but I'm sure Marilyn would have made the original sack look good, anyway. They also say that chewing a piece of raw potato helps cure indigestion.

With this book in hand you'll be able to fashion everything from appetizers to desserts out of this all-American favorite - the potato. Plus, it's a good read.

Order it from Favorite Recipes Press.

Review Posted 17 June 1998

America's Best Cheesecakes

The book is available through Amazon.

Review posted on 28 February 1998

The Politically Correct Cookbook

Quaker Oats Favorite Recipe Collection

This hard cover book is a bargain. The full color photographs and great layout, not to mention the wonderful recipes, make it a nice addition to any cookbook collection. Recipes include some lower fat ones, recipes that have been winners in the Quaker Oatmeal Recipe Contest and classic recipes which have been developed in their kitchens. One of the most requested recipes was developed in the early sixties and is for no-bake fudge clusters. It has the honor of being the last recipe in the book. Quaker Oatmeal is kind enough to share this recipe on the web.

You can also see a photograph of the cookbook on the web at Quaker Oats. Yes, I know this book is a promotional item for Quaker Oats, but it’s a well-done book and I think nice books deserve praise regardless of the reason they were produced. It’s worth the money you’ll spend on it. One final thought -- this book, a box of Quaker Oats and some baking supplies would make a fun and memorable bridal gift.

Review posted January 1997

In the Kitchen with Miss Piggy

by Moi

Time-Life Books -- ISBN: 0-7835-4781-1

$17.95 hardcover

published in April 1996

Celebrity cookbooks are generally flash in the pan items -- much like celebrities. But the inimitable Miss Piggy is a classic and I'm sure her cookbook will be too.

Recipes are from 55 actors, singers, sports stars, models, actresses, musicians, political figures, television personalities, opera singers and fashion designers. The all-star list includes Maya Angelou, Martha Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg, Lauren Bacall, Paul Newman, Tipper Gore, Tim Curry, Yo-Yo Ma, James Taylor, Bryant Gumbel, Kristi Yamaguchi and General Norman Schwarzkopf to name only a few.

Miss Piggy doesn't have any recipes in the book, but we do see her image gracing almost every page and she comments on every recipe save a couple that involve, ummm, how to say this delicately - pork products. The Frog Legs in Cream Sauce recipe also leaves her speechless.

A portion of the proceeds from "In the Kitchen with Miss Piggy" will be donated to Citymeals-on-Wheels, an organization which hand delivers more than one million meals a year to housebound elderly people.

Review posted Fall 1996

The Bride & Groom's First Cookbook

by Abigail Kirsch with Susan M. Greenberg

Doubleday -- ISBN 0-385-47635-3

$26 retail

This is a teaching book designed for couples who do not want to make meatloaf and mashed potatoes. The approximately 125 recipes are geared to today's tastes. One of the best things about the book is the "do ahead" instructions. Very valuable for novice cooks. A nice wedding gift for a "today" kind of couple. The tasks for each recipe are divided so both people get to help with dinner.

Review posted Fall 1996

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