Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5973
EAN: 9780452272996
ISBN: 0452272998
Label: Plume
Manufacturer: Plume
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 144
Publication Date: 1994-10
Publisher: Plume
Studio: Plume

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Great choices, but still looking for more!
Review: Every recipe was great--The family really enjoyed the Shoney's Slow-Cooked Pot Roast. Now if anyone could help me find a recipe for Outback's Queensland Chicken and Shrimp, I would be forever grateful. I can't figure out the secret to the fettuccini noodles---oily, not creamy----

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: More Secrets Revealed
Review: I love the Top Secret Recipe books!! Every recipe I have tried have become favorites.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: It's worth your time and $!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I have tried a # of recipies from all of his books, and let me tell you they are great! It is worth the $8 and so much more. I hope that you buy it because you won't be disapointed, the best part is that he gives great directions filled with pictures, for those simple, know nothing cooks, like me. Try it you'll love it.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Great Book
Review: These books are great. I moved from Florida in 1992. There were restaurants that my kids & I absolutely loved, & we never saw then since we moved. Then I found these books and brought back memories. Now my kids & I cook our favorite restaurant recipes.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Buyer beware...
Review: Don't get me wrong: Todd Wilbur's cookbooks are fun with a capital "F", but if you expect to re-create fast foods and chain-restaurant favorites in your own kitchen using his books, you're in for a nasty surprise. Unless, of course, you already possess a fair amount of kitchen common sense. For example, if you try to fry his "Dunkin Donuts" at the recommended temperature of 350 degrees, you WILL end up with pumpernickel bread in less than 2 minutes (try 280 degrees, instead). Should you follow his recipe for the Olive Garden's Soupa Toscana, what you end up with is a muddy kale & potato mess after 2 hours of boiling, with separated cream on top (contrary to his recipe, simmer for just 30 minutes instead of 2 hours, and add the cream at the end instead of the beginning. Also, use half of his recommended amount of red pepper flakes). If you add the 2 cups of water that's called for in his recipe for Wendy's Chili, what you will get is a thin tomato & bean soup, not chili; skip the water, and the chili comes out very good. Enlist the services of a psychic if you try to make Hostess Twinkies, because his list of ingredients at the beginning of the recipe is different from what he describes in the actual recipe itself. I don't regret buying his books, but keep in mind that just as Todd Wilbur had to play detective in "breaking" these recipes, so will the reader who tries to reproduce them, because they serve as loose guidelines at very best. You will have to do some gumshoe work as well, if you expect these recipes to work. But hey, at least he gives us somewhere to start. And it is fun! Oh yeah, the Oreo cookies are pretty close to the real thing, by the way.

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