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How to Cook Everything : Quick Cooking

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Make a quick home-cooked meal tonight! Ziti with Creamy Gorgonzola Sauce. Shrimp Marinara. Broiled or Grilled Chicken with Pesto. Stir-Fried Spicy Beef with Basil. With How to Cook Everything™: Quick Cooking, great-tasting, satisfying dishes like these can be made in 30 minutes or less! Mark Bittman, the award-winning author of the bestselling kitchen classic How to Cook Everything™, shares his favorite simple¨Cand infinitely flexible¨Cquick recipes. You¡¯ll be able to prepare family-pleasing everyday meals, spur-of-the-moment dinners for friends, even special-occasion feasts. To inspire you and help you plan your meals, you¡¯ll find Bittman¡¯s straight talk on cooking and special features, including: Creative recipe variations and ideas Tips for shopping, preparing, and cooking the recipes Illustrations to demystify trickier techniques Menu suggestions for a Weeknight Family Dinner Classic, an Elegant Dinner Party, and more At-a-glance icons highlighting recipes done in 20 minutes or less

Mark Bittman, a widely recognized and respected cookbook author and New York Times food columnist, has succumbed to greed. He and his publishers have split up his very well received book `How to Cook Everything' into several separate pieces and is charging for the pieces more than the price of the original book. This volume, `Quick Cooking' is one of the pieces.

The author and the publisher are not trying to hide this fact, although I suspect they will not shed a tear if you buy the book with the impression that this is new material.

On the surface, I am sure they will rationalize that they are doing their readers a service by providing parts of this very good book at a lower list price than the whole book. This is pure hokum. The original book is a very good contribution to the genre of `If you own only one cookbook, this would be it' cookbook. So, why would I want to buy only part of that book? If I want a book on basics, I would do much better to buy Alton Brown's `I'm Only Here for the Food'. If I want a book on quick cooking, I suspect one of Rachael Ray's books will be better AND cheaper.

Speaking of Herr Doktor Brown, he and his Food Network colleague Ina Garten seem to have caught the same case of avarice in that they have had knockoff volumes published with artwork which is based on their best-selling volumes, but which contain cut rate material, or maybe even no material. They are selling pure hype.

I have a great amount of respect for all three of these authors. I have even met Alton Brown and find him a truly gracious gentleman who deserves all good fortune and celebrity he can garner. But I do not wish these authors to put out products that some people can easily buy under a false expectation fostered by the product's marketing.

Do not buy this book. Buy the complete `How to Cook Everything' and be done with it

You found Quick Cooking Magazine

I suppose about everything has been said that could be said about the "Quick Cooking" magazine, but I still have to add my two cents worth. I was already receiving "Taste of Home" magazine when I received a complimentary copy of "Quick Cooking." It took me almost two years before I sent in my subscription, but after receiving the second magazine, I couldn't hold out any longer.

Since I had two sample copies, I gave one to my daughter who was about to be married. Cooking definitely is not her cup of tea. She looked over the magazine and was immediately impressed with the simplicity of the recipes and the short preparation time. Even her fiance, who does cook, urged her to subscribe to this magazine.

They both have high cholesterol. Since the magazine does offer recipes that use less fat, sugar, and salt, this helped them decide that this was a magazine that would be an asset to them.

Another interesting page is the one featuring recipes for leftovers. I for one, am always looking for something new to do with leftovers, besides throwing them into the soup kettle.

You can also find helpful information in the article "Quick Queries from Janaan." These are questions and answers about cooking problems from subscribers, with a few timely tips thrown in for good measure.

This is a great magazine for the working person who doesn't have a lot of time for meal preparation. It would also make a great gift for the bride (or groom) to be.

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