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Top Secret Restaurant Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones from America's Favorite Restaurant Chains: A Cookbook Paperback - 1997
by Todd Wilbur
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In 1996, Americans spent over $100 billion gobbling up meals at full-service American restaurant chains. Wilbur's collection of knock-off recipes for 110 of the most popular of these dishes--absolutely indiscernible from the originals--includes fare from Red Lobster, Pizza Hut, The Olive Garden, Chi-Chi's, and many others. 65 illustrations.
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In 1996, Americans spent over $100 billion gobbling up meals at full-service American restaurant chains, inspiring Todd Wilbur to change his focus from cracking the recipes for convenience store foods to cloning the popular dishes served at these sit-down stand-bys. Wilbur's knock-offs, absolutely indiscernible from the originals, are selected from national and regional chains, many drawn from a list of the top ten full-service restaurant chains, including Houlihan's, Red Lobster, and Pizza Hut. Also included in this savory cookbook is a special section devoted to dishes from hot theme restaurants such as Hard Rock Cafe, Planet Hollywood, and Dive! Recipes include: Applebee's Quesadillas; Denny's Moons Over My Hammy; Bennigan's Cookie Mountain Sundae; The Olive Garden Toscana Soup; The Cheesecake Factory Bruschetta; T.G.I.Friday's Nine-Layer Dip; Pizza Hut Original Stuffed Crust Pizza; Chi-Chi's Nachos Grande, and many more!
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It's no longer necessary to stand in line for a table at T.G.I. Friday's or Red Lobster. You can make the menu items you love right at home - with ingredients from your local supermarket. In this unique cookbook Todd Wilbur re-creates more than 100 signature dishes from America's most popular chain restaurants - including such hot theme eateries as the Hard Rock Cafe, Planet Hollywood, and Dive!. Wilbur's easy-to-make knockoffs, the products of years of research, are indiscernible from the originals - and the most ingenious way we know of to cut down on the cost of eating out. But watch out, once you start cooking, people may start calling for reservations at your dinner table! Here are some of the best-kept restaurant secrets that let you eat in with the great taste of eating out: Outback Steakhouse Bloomin' Onion, Chili's Fajitas for Two, Tony Roma's World Famous Ribs, T.G.I. Friday's Potato Skins, Pizza Hut Original Stuffed Crust Pizza, and Sizzler Southern Fried Shrimp. Plus you'll find out the fascinating history of each restaurant and loads of food lore...including how ice cream sundaes got their name. The perfect cookbook for everyone who loves to eat out.
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- Title Top Secret Restaurant Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones from America's Favorite Restaurant Chains: A Cookbook
- Author Todd Wilbur
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1997-06-01
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780452275874 / 0452275873
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 9.06 x 5.98 x 0.86 in (23.01 x 15.19 x 2.18 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Topical: Health & Fitness
- Category Cooking / Wine
- Library of Congress subjects Cookery, American, Chain restaurants - United States
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96049396
- Dewey Decimal Code 641.597
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- Booklist, 03/15/1997, Page 1217
- Publishers Weekly, 05/05/1997, Page 203
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