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different
The book is funny at points. I expected more recipes. I listened to the audio version, read by the author herself. She employs liberal use of the callback, so much so that she latches on to a few key phrases and repeats them to the point of browbeating. The recipes are sickening. I could barely stand to listen. If those women actually eat that way, it's no wonder they are all saving for lipsuction. If I heard her say "one runningoverteaspoon of vanilla" one more time, I was gonna find her and punch her in the face. Just say a teaspoon and a half of vanilla! The part about her mother having a stroke makes her seem incredibly selfish and coldhearted. Maybe being dispassionate is just her way of coping.

Delish!
The good thing about this book is that it has alllll of the old standard recipes (Death Chicken, Chocolate Stuff) and a bunch of fabulous new ones... some that wouldn't clog your arteries with the first bite!As always, the side-stories and "financial advice" are hilarious and you'll find yourself wanting a ceee-ment monkey.

The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner)
Jill Conner Browne has done it again. She and the "Tammy's" will take you to laughter city with this one. She couldn't be any funnier!Of course, I love any book about queens, or being the the Queen! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. American cooking    2. Cookery    3. Cookery, American    4. Cooking    5. Cooking / Wine    6. General    7. Humor    8. Regional & Ethnic - American - Southern States    9. Humor / General   

Subjects:  1. American Regional Cookery    2. Cookery, American    3. Cooking    4. Cooking / Wine    5. Meat Cookery    6. Regional & Ethnic - American - General    7. Specific Ingredients - Meat    8. Specific Ingredients - Seafood    9. Cooking / Meat   

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Disgruntled
I did not find this book helpful cooking with SS cookware. The generic recipes are available all over the internet and are not cookware specific. Save your money. It's overpriced and overrated.

Healthy Meat and Potatoes
Healthy, hearty and delightful meals are created with gentle hands and warm hearts. This I learned as a youngster growing up in the wonderful ethnic mix of New York and New Jersey, with home kitchens brimming with incredible dishes brought with care from the Old World. To those around me, good food was the nourishment of both body and soul. This harvest of flavors was the great influence of my boyhood. From the time I was old enough to know my way around the neighborhood family kitchens, I wanted to be a chef. All my dreams came true as I moved into the fascinating culinary world.
Very tasty recipes
I recently purchased a set of waterless cookware and was disappointed by the limited accompanying recipes.I was delighted to find "Healthy Meat & Potatoes" by Charles Knight, and even more delighted once I received it.
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Subjects:  1. Cooking    2. Cooking / Wine    3. Health & Healing - Low Fat    4. Health & Healing - Weight Control    5. Low-fat diet    6. Recipes    7. Cooking / General   

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This is the best of the potato history books.
Redcliffe Salaman chronicles the history of the potato from prehistorythrough modern times with the vehemence and passion of a zealot. This bookcontains a tremendous amount of information about the cultures that havemade use of the potato as well as all you could ask about the noble tuberitself, including dietary and cultivation information.Here, in a bookabout spuds, you'll learn plenty about human nature, the nature ofcivilizations, and even art. ... Read more

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Potatoes Plus
I can't believe all the things that are possible to do with a potato!Recipes look easy to follow and don't have a lot of impossible to find ingredients.Wish there were pictures though.

Creative Ideas
One potato is about 100 calories and is a good source of Vitamin C. While it is a fat-free food to start with, who can resist butter and sour cream?
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Subjects:  1. Cookery (Potatoes)    2. Cooking    3. Cooking / Wine    4. Specific Ingredients - General    5. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables    6. Cookery by ingredient    7. Cooking / Courses & Dishes / General   

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Excellent Variety of Recipes
Let's face it, in America potatos are a traditional sidedish. This book actually teaches you how to use them to make everything from the simplest to most elegant dishes in an easy-to-follow fashion. I actually consider this to be one of my favorites in the collection because it does not require as many specialty ingredients as the other books.

The BEST potato cookbook!
We first checked this book out from the library, but soon it was apparent that no one in our family was going to let it be returned, so here I am to buy it! Read more

Subjects:  1. Cookery (Potatoes)    2. Cooking    3. Cooking / Wine    4. Courses & Dishes - General    5. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables    6. Cooking / Vegetables    7. General cookery   

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Anyone who thinks that they could never give up meat will find true enlightenment in Read more

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Creative, hearty meals
I love this book! Most of the recipes are easy to prepare, and the dishes are different from the typical fare you'll find in the average vegetarian cookbook.(OK.. there is one recipe for hummus...) As other reviewers have pointed out, it often calls for fake meat products, so if you don't care for them, this may not be the book for you. However, if you do enjoy seitan, soy crumbles, faux sausages and the like, this book offers many creative ways to prepare them.My favorite recipes are the Vegetarian Pot Roast (made with seitan and a to-die-for marinade), Tofu and Mushroom Piccata, Red Beans Bourguignon, Maple-Mashed Sweet Potatoes, Plan-Ahead Potato Latkes, Spicy Tofu Po' Boys, and Seitan Cheese Steaks.

This book is great
My only complaint with this book is that many of the recipes call for fake meat, which I try to avoid eatting to much of.
Too much lettuce, too little meat-and-potatoes
I can see I am in the minority, but this was the only vegetarian book I've bought that has been a disappointment.
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Interesting
I was attracted to this book from the title of course - in addition my family of six - only one other person than myself eats pasta, rice, etc.How many different ways can you cook potaotes?I don't know that I'll will actually make a lot of the recipes, several are not "kid friendly". Maybe some modified recipes, the book is inspiring and it is very interesting to read about the different kind of potaotes.I would probably check it out at the library first in hind sight.Only I am new in town and don't know where the library is just yet.

Colcannon, Pierogies, Vichysoisse, and Samosas oh my
If this is the kind of book an editor of other food writers can give us, then I wish more of these largely invisible literary yeomen would take up the pen to do their own material more often. This is an excellent example of my favorite kind of book. It deals exclusively with recipes based on a single main ingredient. This makes it the book to go to when you have that last pound of spuds in a ten pound bag or you need some starch recipe to round out a meal and you can't face another rice dish, or you just want to do something a little different for mashed potatoes. Therefore, I am always inclined to give a good rating to this kind of book as long as the authors don't drop the ball between the kitchen and the word processor. These authors, Roy Finamore and Molly Stevens, have kept a firm grasp on the ball throughout the game. Don't Bother
Way too blah...don't bother - better tater books out there. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cookery (Potatoes)    2. Cooking    3. Cooking / Wine    4. Courses & Dishes - General    5. Potatoes    6. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables    7. Cooking / Vegetables   

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One strike and it's out!
I couldn't find my favorite recipe for gingerbread this holiday season, so I tried the one from this book.It was truly awful.I think there must be an ingredient missing, perhaps some baking powder.

Simply the best!!
I have to admit that when I bought this book years ago, I was disaponted because it has no pictures. (And I love pictures). But...something cought my eye: Ann Hodgman says in her book "My feeling is that every main dish is better if you add some bacon" and actually another million funny coments, but that is why I kept reading and reading. A cookbook that fills all the senses
Love all the other 5-star-rating-reviews out there, for me, same same!This and Beat That are two cookbooks that you will want to read right through (and try every recipe)Hodgman is not only super funny, but she also seems to pipe up at exactly the right time during a recipe.You know, when you are asking yourself, "Hmmm, is it supposed to look like *that*??!!"Ann typically has a comment such as, "it's supposed to look like this..."Many of the techniques that she suggests in her recipes are ones that I have used again and again in my cooking without a book experiences.She just know how to tell it so right.Read more

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Amazing BooK!
This cookbook is filled with all of those recipes that you ask for from complete strangers at church suppers.Simple down to earth and even healthy!

Trying to clog your family's arteries? This cookbook is for you!
Having grown up around many Mormon families, I was excited to receive this cookbook and try out some of the recipes at our neighborhood potlucks.The book itself is beautiful, but the recipes are so unhealthy that it would be irresponsible to feed these finished dishes to families and friends.It's easy to make something fattening and unhealthy - which describes nearly everything in this cookbook - and I was hoping that the recipes would at least have been modified to make them healthier for today's lifestyles. I'm not a health food fanatic, and appreciate a fattening meal here and there, but this book is over-the-top in the "what not to eat" category.For me, there isn't much in this cookbook that sounds like it would be worth the trouble making.

A Family Pleaser!
This is definitely a great book for Mormons!The recipes taste great and don't take an entire day to prepare.The average recipe serves 6-8 people.My four kids eat what I make when it is from this cookbook.The other thing I love is that the book aranges the recipes by season, so all the ingredients are in season.Also, the recipes fit the occasions and weather.However, if you are on a diet this would not be the book for you.However, seeing that I lost 30 pounds when I finally quit dieting 6 years ago, and instead focused on eating regular normal meals, I'm not a fan of low-fat, low-carb, low calorie, vegetarian meals.If you aren't either, this is a great little cookbook! ... Read more

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potatoes for dinner!
I bought this book because I owned others in this series (ultimate shrimp, ultimate ice cream)--and I'm not disappointed.All the recipes are for main courses with potatoes, so this is a book for real potato lovers.Great soups, really yummy stews, and some cool new things I've never seen before--potato casseroles that are way great.I love all the international dishes, Japanese, Chinese, Irish, French, German, African.It's so cool to make potatoes from around the world.

spud-tastic
Here's a great set of recipes for every spud-lover in your life.Every recipe is a main course--some fudge a little, like "steak frites," but the authors claim it's not steak frites without the frites.Fair enough.But beyond those, there are a terrific set of international dishes, from Congolese to Japanese, from Chinese to Chilean.Who knew the spud was such an international favorite?And there are plenty of home-spun, American recipes, too.From latkes to hash, here's a book that will make the potato the centerpiece of any plate. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cookery (Potatoes)    2. Cooking    3. Cooking / Wine    4. Courses & Dishes - General    5. Potatoes    6. Specific Ingredients - General    7. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables    8. Vegetable Cookery    9. Cooking / General   

Editorial Review

Consider the homely potato. A simple tuber--most often servedbaked, fried, or mashed--it inspires little passion, belonging insteadto that same culinary family of comfort foods as macaroni and cheese oroatmeal. But with Sarah Reynold's Read more

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50 ways to make mashed potatoes
This was not the book worth for the money.Some of the recipes were pretty good, but I was expecting different types of potatoes and more unique types of recipes.

50 Best Mashed Potatoes (365 Ways Series)
Being a mashed potato lover 50 Best Mashed Potatoes (365 Ways Series) was a great help. I found new and exciting ways to create a favorite side dish. My family loves all the new creations. And the great tips from how to cook mash potatoes to the mechanics of mashing were helpful. A simple little book to help spruce up mealtime. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cooking / Wine    2. Regional & Ethnic - American - General    3. Cookery by ingredient    4. Cooking / American / General    5. Cookery (Potatoes)    6. Potatoes    7. Cooking   

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Gorgeous series
I own this and all the Country Garden series of cookbooks.They are all visually gorgeous, and all written by professional chefs.Each book surrounds a featured ingredient which is seasonal.I must admit that many of the recipes could be considered "chi-chi," but for cookbook collectors, this series is really wonderful.I'm sorry they stopped adding to these books, and very sorry that they are going out of print. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cookery    2. Cookery (Potatoes)    3. Cooking    4. Cooking / Wine    5. Potatoes    6. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables    7. Cookery by ingredient   

Reviews (5)

Southern baking
Bakers who have exhausted BILL NEAL'S SOUTHERN COOKING will find a mother lode of Southern baking recipes in BISCUITS, SPOONBREAD, and SWEET POTATO PIE. I agree with another reviewer who praises the recipe for "A Good White Loaf." It's one of the recipes I return to when I absolutely want to be sure that the bread is going to come out perfectly (Thanksgiving, e.g.).

Interesting, But Mediocre
It seems that all of the best American baking recipes are from the deep South: sweet potato pie, pecan pie, baking powder biscuits, cornbreads, and fruit cobblers. Any baking book full of southern recipes is promising, but this one is disappointing and nothing more than another, run-of-the-mill baking book, although it is a rather interesting collection of recipe clippings.The author's intention seems to be that of capturing the state of southern baking before disappearing before a tidal wave of supermarket breads and nation-wide coffee chain stores; he makes a good but not entirely successful run at it.It is a fascinating collection of ideas, principles, and anecdotes, but prospective home bakers searching for old fashioned, simple, hearty, and fool proof recipes will be disappointed.There is plenty of sizzle (a potentially valuable collection of old fashioned baking recipes), but little steak (solid, good, reliable recipes along with many helpful hints that you will want to do).
A Real Keeper
I have a several thousand cookbook collection - spanning some 40+ years.I have read each one and KNOW them.This book grabs your attention and holds it. I have a Top 100 Cookbooks (my very, very favorite ones) bookcase.A book has to pass rigid cooking/baking tests to get there. This book is there!!Read more

Subjects:  1. Baking    2. Confectionery    3. Cookery, American    4. Cooking    5. Cooking / Wine    6. Courses & Dishes - Bread    7. Methods - Baking    8. Regional & Ethnic - American - Southern States    9. Southern style    10. Cakes, baking, icing & sugarcraft    11. Central Southern states    12. Cooking / American / Southern States    13. National & regional cuisine    14. Southeastern & South Atlantic states   

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Who would have guessed the sweet potato was so versatile!
This book is a pure joy to read, and covers an amazing array of culinary styles.The recipes offered range from the classic sweet potato pie to an asian stir-fry that would delight any foodie. ... Read more

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an awesome vegan cookbook, in style and substance
This book is packed full of good recipes and good ideas, and the tips on stocking your vegan kitchen could be vey helpful for those who are not already master chefs (or simply not used to cooking vegan well and efficiently). The People's Potato Collective's cooking experience and passion for feeding people good (and nutritious, and ethical) food really show in this cookbook, and come together to make it an invaluable resource for anyone interested in vegan cooking.
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Subjects:  1. Barbecue cookery    2. Barbecue cooking    3. Children's All Ages - Cooking    4. Cooking    5. Methods - Barbecue & Grilling    6. Regional & Ethnic - American - California Style   

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A tribute to the more than 30 vegetables dear to veteran cookbook author Bert Greene's heart, Read more

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Excellent cookbook that has stood the test of time
A passionate home cook that has been honing her cooking skills for the last 25 years writes this review.My favorite cookbooks are "The Professional Chef" by the Culinary Institute and "Culinary Artistry".With more than 500 cookbooks in my collection I am usually disappointed in my recent cookbook acquisitions.This book is a wonderful addition to any cookbook library.This book is NOT vegetarian.There are many vegetarian recipes and some vegan recipes, but there are also recipes that include meat.
A fantastic book i have used for 20 years.
I received this cookbook 20 years ago for a wedding present. I love it!Each vegetable is talked about as to what to look for in buying, what its historical uses have been(either worldwide or in his family), and what the author's favorite way of cooking it is. The recipes that follow are gleaned from many different sources.Not low fat, but high taste.I was given some fennel last year and had no clue what to do with it.Got out Greene on Greens and made some fabulous fennel bread.

Outstanding Veggie Coverage + Creativity
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37 recipes for techniques & presentation of the common spud
(...).I got my money's worth on the fancy presentation for Maxim's potatoes, which lists only potatoes and clarified butter as ingredients.If you have a mandoline, the recipe is a snap!Read more

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