The Compleat I Hate to Cook Book

Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780553271300
ISBN: 055327130X
Label: Bantam
Languages:EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: March 01, 1988
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: February 01, 1988
Studio: Bantam

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Do you approach a food processor as of it were a  high-tech guillotine?



Would you  rather hunt for a meal than cook  it?



But, secretely, would you like to somehow,  someway, and very quickly make a meal that would win you  a standing ovation?



Cry no more.  Here's great news for the three million people who  bought Peg Bracken's classic I Hate To  Cook Book and its two successors: Peg is  back with her very best recipe tips and advice. In  a text that is both highly informative and  hilarious, she covers everything from shopping to diets  to kids to parties to picnics to full meals, and  more.

Amazon.com Review:
Some people are born to bake, boil, and lovingly tend to food, and they do it willingly. Then there are those among us who are born to burn, break, and destroy food--and would rather pull out our own wisdom teeth than have to cook a meal. For these anti-cooks, Peg Bracken has been offering advice, and dare it be said, creating recipes since the 1970s. The Compleat I Hate to Cook Book combines Bracken's earlier work, the infamous I Hate to Cook Book along with its two successors. The emphasis is on cheap, simple, "cut as many corners and spend as little time in the kitchen as humanly possible" foods. With such lovely names (Shuttemup Cookies, Fat Man's Shrimp, A Puffy Prune Whip), even naysayers will be curious. Fancy ingredients are replaced by cans of condensed soup, baked beans, and crushed corn flakes. Three-page recipes are traded for short, snappy, and simple instructions. Bracken hasn't forgotten these health-conscious times either: in a chapter entitled "Some of My Best Friends Are Fat," she concocts easy recipes for Skinny Meatloaf and a rather tasty 22 Calorie Banana Whip, which coincidentally contains just 22 calories! This book comes highly recommended for kitchen phobics the world over. --Naomi Gesinger

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