COOKBOOKS

• DETAILS on The Compleat I Hate to Cook Book
  by Peg Bracken, Hilary Knight (Illustrator)
  Value Priced at: $9.99
  Hardcover - 288 pages
  
  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
  
  Synopsis:
  26 b&w illus 6 x 9. Orig. $14.95.
  Hundreds of fast, delicious I-hate-to-cook recipes such as Hurry Curry, Stayabed Stew, Sole Survivor, and others fill this essential volume for those with an aversion to the kitchen. Anyone who has mixed feelings about being in the kitchen will appreciate this appealing and humorous collection of clever cooking shortcuts, time-saving tips, and more than 440 simple, easy-to-prepare recipes.
  
  Customer Comments:
  A reader from Elizabeth City, NC , October 1, 1998 * * * *
  Simple recipes and funny!
  This book was a joy to read. I used to wake up my husband laughing and when he'd ask what I was reading and I'd say "a cook book", he'd doubt my sanity. I remember especially "slug-a-bed stew". It's great fun for all cooks, and most of all - lazy ones - like me! --This text refers to the paperback edition of this title.
  
  
• DETAILS on On Getting Old for the First Time
  by Peg Bracken (Editor), Peggy Bracken
  List Price: $14.95
  Our Price: $10.46
  Hardcover - 148 pages
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• DETAILS on Granny's Recipes, Remedies, and Helpful Hints; A Treasury of Country Lore and Wisdom
  by Jean Cross
  Value Priced at: $9.99
  Reading level: Young Adult
  Hardcover - 416 pages
  RATING: * * * *
  REVIEW:
  Synopsis
  An ingenious collection of folk recipes and remedies, providing an intriguing look at how our ancestors lived a century before. Want to whip up an anecdote for snake bites? Get rid of roaches forever? There's no substitute for good old-fashioned know-how.
  
  
• DETAILS on The New Settlement Cookbook
  by Charles Pierce (Editor)
  Value Priced at: $12.98
  Hardcover - 832 pages
  
  REVIEW:
  Synopsis
  The long-awaited, completely revised and updated edition of the classic American cookbook (with over two million copies in print) that marries the spirit and simplicity of the 1900s with the cooking priorities of the 1990s. Each of the 1,200 recipes has been updated for the modern cook--lighter, healthier, easier than ever before. Instructional line art, charts, and boxes throughout. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
  
  
• DETAILS on The Festive Christmas Cookbook : A Treasury of Old Traditions, Recipes and Lore of the Christmas Season
  by Norma Jost Voth
  Value Priced at: $9.99
  Hardcover - 304 pages
  
  REVIEW:
  Amazon.com
  The Festive Christmas Cookbook is more than a compilation of scrumptious holiday recipes--it's a celebration of holiday memories and traditions from throughout the world. The book will leave you feeling warm and tingly with its charming stories of family Christmases and traditions. Fabulous recipes for cakes, breads, scones, and cookies make this a fun, festive treat.
  
  Synopsis:
  Beautiful sketches accent this charming celebration of the many holday traditions, family rituals and baking recipes of Christmases past. A lovely combination of fond memories and delicious baked goods. This treasury of festive Christmas recipes celebrates the foods, traditions and lore of the holiday season from places around the world. With over 90 recipes, this book brings holiday bread, cookie, and cake recipes from Denmark, Germany, Austria, Greece, Switzerland, the United States, and many other countries together with tales of Christmas customs.
  
  
• DETAILS on 1001 Muffins, Biscuits, Doughnuts, Pancakes, Waffles, Popovers, Fritters, Scones and Other Quick Breads
  by Gregg R. Gillespie, Claire Young (Photographer)
  Value Priced at: $19.98
  Hardcover - 487 pages
  RATING: * * * * *
  
  REVIEWS:
  The author, Gregg Gillespie gregoree@worldnet.att.net , August 26, 1998
  Muffins and quick breads are no longer just for breakfast I have gone to great lengths to create over one hundred new muffin recipes and over fifty quick bread (little loaves) recipes for this book. For too long this great baked items has been reserved for a breakfast or snack menu. Now with the creation of the new recipes, these items can be used with any meal of the day. Every item in the book has been kitchen tested twice. The first time to test the recipes for accuracy in the kitchen, and the second by a non-baking, non-cooking person. Then they were also put to the test a third time when every items was prepared so the photographer could take the pictures used in the book. For the first time, starting with this book, an autographed bookplate will be available to everyone who asks for one. Write to the email address below for details.
  
  Customer Comments:
  A reader from Holland, Michigan , October 17, 1998
  A great collection of easy quick breads and muffin recipes. As I write this, a batch of Orange Marmalade Muffins (page 213), are finishing in my oven. I have searched for a very long time for a comprehensive collection of muffin recipes. This collection is a real treat. With recipes ranging from 100 Year Old Muffins to Zucchini-And-Sweet-Rye Muffins with Olives, there truly are recipes in the book for everyone.
  
  One of the many features of this book that is delightful, is the addition of sauces, spreads and toppings to enhance many of the final products. For instance, the Chicken-Rice Muffins with Vegtables (page 91), offers an easy Cucmber Dill Sauce recipe to enhance the flavors of these unusual taste treats.
  
  Along with the easy to make muffin recipes are recipes for scones, cobblers (just like Grandma's), biscuits (try the Patriotic Biscuits with cranberries and blueberries - page 268), waffles, coffes cakes, doughnuts, fritters, traditional quick breads, pancakes and popovers. Quite a piece of work, this!
  
  Each recipe has a color photograph of the finished product to assist you in the very difficult task of actually making a choice of which recipe to bake. Each page contains only two recipes that are easily read, due mainly to the no-nonsense instructional style of the recipes. Anyone can do these recipes.
  
  By the way, the Orange Marmalade muffins have finished and are now cooling on racks - they look and taste fantastic!
  
  Thank you Mr. Gillespie and Ms. Young for this baking treasure.
  
  
• DETAILS on Juice It Up
  by P. Gentry
  Value Priced at: $3.98
  Paperback
  
  REVIEW:
  Synopsis
  Complete with line drawings, this cookbook offers delicious, healthful recipes utilizing the new, lower-priced juice extractors now hitting the market. The book tells how to use the machines to make a whole range of quick, refreshing and healthy beverages in addition to dips, sauces, salad dressings and marinades. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
  
  
• DETAILS on The New Vegetarian Cookbook
  by Gary Null
  Value Priced at: $9.99
  Paperback - 320 pages
  
  Synopsis:
  If your lifestyle is VEGETABLES and NO meat, then this book is for you! Recipes just for the VEGETARIAN!
  
  
• DETAILS on Supercharge Your Health : 150 Easy Ways to Get Strong, Feel Great, and Look Your Best
  by Gary Null
  List Price: $6.99
  Our Price: $5.59
  Paperback - 192 pages
  
  REVIEW:
  Health and Fitness Editor's Recommended Book
  The subtitle to this book--"150 Easy Ways to Get Strong, Feel Great, and Look Your Best"--is a little misleading, especially since author Gary Null actually lists 154 tips; there are no easy ways to get strong; and the strength-training information is the book's weakest section, giving confusing and sometimes inaccurate advice. The book is strongest in nutrition, lifestyle, and aerobic-exercise advice, and will probably be most useful to someone who's trying to break free from a lifetime of bad health habits, rather than a person who regularly eats well and exercises.
  
  From aerobics to zinc, the strategies in this book cover the full range of health and fitness, including diet, nutrition, exercise, vitamins and minerals, body image and alternative health. Each of the entries begins with a basic tip, such as "steam your vegetables to retain vitamins," or "think Bs and Cs (broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage and cauliflower) for cancer-fighting nutrition." Gary Null then explains each tip, showing readers what the benefits are and why its important. Some other topics covered include: proper breathing for energy and calmness, how to satisfy a sweet tooth without sugar, stress-busting techniques and much more.
  
  Synopsis:
  From the proper way to do sit-ups to recommendations on antioxidant supplements, here are 150 quick and easy tips on how to achieve optimal wellness by nutrition guru Gary Null, author of The Joy of Juicing. One of America's leading health experts presents a collection of 150 simple strategies to help readers achieve optimal health and wellness, discussing such topics as diet, exercize, vitamins and other nutrient supplements, interval training, breathing tactics, and more. Original."
  
  
• DETAILS on The Complete Book of Herbs : A Practical Guide to Cultivating, Drying, and Cooking With More Than 50 Herbs
  by Emma Callery
  Value Priced at: $14.98
  Hardcover - 128 pages
  
  REVIEW:
  Synopsis
  Features advice on all aspects of growing herbs--from buying and planting them to caring for and harvesting them--and includes a section on designing an herb garden and information on drying herbs and creating potpourri.
  
  
• DETAILS on Bread Machine Book
  by Marjie Lambert
  Value Priced at: $12.99
  Hardcover - 128 pages
  RATING: * * * * *
  
  Customer REVIEW:
  A reader from United States , February 4, 1998
  This is the best bread book out there I have searched high and low for a good bread machine book and this is by far the best. I have made over a dozen recipes and all of them have turned out wonderful. The photographs accompanying the recipes are beautiful and the variety is unbeatable.
  
  
• DETAILS on The Bread Machine Baker
  by Elizabeth M. Harbison
  Value Priced at: $8.99
  Hardcover
  RATING: * * * *
  
  Comments:
  Recipes designed especially for the Bread Machine.
  
  

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