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Title: Cooking for Dummies by Bryan Miller, Marie Rama ISBN: 0-7645-5250-3 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (11 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: An excellent book for beginners and a nice basic reference
Comment: Of all the cooking books out there, this would be the one book I would recommend for anyone who wants to learn to cook, but has no kitchen experience at all. It explains basic kitchen terminology and methods in very basic terms....even a child could understand them. If you have much kitchen experience at all, you probably won't learn a whole lot from this book, but it does serve me well as a reference book. For example, if I can't remember exactly how long or how hot to bake a potato, I turn to Cooking for Dummies. It's recipes also serve as a wonderful jumping off point for developing your own cooking creativity. The recipes are very basic, and can always be changed or doctored up to your own tastes.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Dummies' Guide on how to Get it Done in the Kitchen.
Comment: Cooking for Dummies is funny, informative, and like all it's "For Dummies" cousins, immediately hands on.
I'll take away one star, only because the opening can be intimidating to a rank beginner who doesn't know the difference between a soufle or a sauce pan. Moreover, as has been pointed out earlier, "Cooking for Dummies" seems to say that one must have or obtain a kitchen far beyond the reach of most new cooks. If that's overly intimidating, it's made up for later, as the book gives simple steps that are all but foolproof. If the beginner cannot afford the costly equipment recommended, the beginner should make do with what can be obtained. However, cooking is like any other craft--the better the equipment, the better the results.
But the recipes and techniques are the highlight and soul of the book. Written with humor, insight, and a firm remembering of the intended audience (e.g. "dummies in the kitchen"), "Cooking for Dummies" is sure to please. The recipes are complete and easy to follow; the techniques are explained so that even a klutz like myself won't lose his fingers while chopping herbs or hard vegetables; and the results are uniformly satisfying.
"Cooking for Dummies" is great reading, easy to use, and will be a favorite for many new cooks learning to use the kitchen for more than storage of beer and chips.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disorganized, badly edited
Comment: This book should have been organized such that a beginner can read through the book in linear chapter order. The beginner should be taught techniques and lessons that can be built upon in later chapters. The text is written like it was teaching someone how to cook, but it is organized by food type!
One chapter lists all the tools, pots, and pans a well stocked kitchen should have -- it even lists tools that appear to not be used in any recipes given. However, a few pages later, a recipe is presented that uses tools not mentioned previously. It presents recipes using techniques not explained until many chapters later -- the forward references (if any) refer only to the chapter thus forcing the reader to peruse that whole future chapter to find the technique referenced. Simpler, one-pot-meals appear later in the book and simultaneous recipe preparation meals appear earlier. C'mon. The title of the book has the word "Dummies" in it. It is not friendly to someone who actually wants to learn how to cook.
The writing, even though it was badly organized, was good. The problem was the book's editor. If you are a "dummy" in the kitchen, look elsewhere for instruction.
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Title: Quick & Healthy Cooking for Dummies by Lynn Fischer ISBN: 0764552147 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 18 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Absolute Beginner's Cookbook, Revised 3rd Edition: Or How Long Do I Cook a 3 Minute Egg? by Jackie Eddy, Eleanor Clark, Eleanor Clark, Jackie Eddy ISBN: 0761535462 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 26 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Italian Cooking for Dummies by Cesare Casella, Jack Bishop ISBN: 0764550985 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 02 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Grilling for Dummies by Marie Rama, John Mariani ISBN: 0764550764 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 15 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Betty Crocker's Cooking Basics : Learning to Cook with Confidence by Betty Crocker Editors ISBN: 0028624513 Publisher: Betty Crocker Pub. Date: 02 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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