Cookbooks are Great Fun
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I collect cookbooks.  This is a good addition to that bookcase.
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These little cookbooks are great! The fact that I have so many to refer to, or just get ideas for new favorites is awesome. I always look for them  to get them free the first days they are released.
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I love to cook but readily admit I'm not that great at it, so I'm always looking for recipes that look tasty and exciting but aren't overally complicated. This cookbook totally fit the bill!

This compilation includes 120 recipes from various food bloggers. Most of them are easy enough for even the cooking-challenged to follow, and they generally include what I'd call regular ingredients... stuff you already have in the kitchen, or that you can easily find at the supermarket. And, better still, they are all relatively quick to prepare. I've tried 3 different recipes so far, including a chicken, broccoli, and rice stir-fry, which I loved, and a chicken bok choy, which, with a few changes, has become one of our favorite family dinners. Overall, I consider this a fun and inspiring cookbook for the less-than-expert chef!
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I'm having fun with this cook book.  We're eating our way through the great recipes.  Each recipe comes beautifully illustrated.  This doubles the enjoyment of preparation, and  makes it fun to just brouse through at leisure.  It is great for vegans as well as any cook.

Jo Furman
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What a fun book. The recipes in it are well thought out. Most are pretty easy to make as well and it covers a variety of genre. I got this as a present and I have purchased 4 for gifts for others and all have enjoyed it.
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I love my new cookbook. I have had lots of fun trying the recipes. I bought one for my son.
1374425
This is such a fun cookbook. It was publish in 1939. I love the historical elements and food variations. I have made a couple of the gingerbread recipes, Maine Gingerbread and Gingerbread Slab, and they have been delicious. A fun book to share  with my family.
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If you love to eat, you will love this cookbook.
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I had never read through a cookbook before I got Crazy Plates because I had never found them that interesting. These cookbooks were so fun to read that I made it all the way through CP and was really pleased to add Eat, Shrink & Be Merry to my shelf as well. I decided to practice cooking by just using the recipes out of these two books and ended up doing so for about a year without getting tired of them. Though not every single recipe is my favorite, I have developed a long list of tasty, great favorites that my family loves and that are often a special treat for company (some of my favorite company recipes - Melancauli Baby, Feast from the East, Turk de Soleil hamburgers, Lick Your Chops, Indian Appleous 500, Tuskinny Chicken, and The Chicken Coup.  When my son was 2 he used to run to sit by my side to look at the pictures while I was picking out recipes. He laughed all the way through. It's a really nice cookbook if you would like to give something with a little more interesting recipes in it to someone who is learning how to cook, as there is a good variety of things they can choose from and not get tired of a bunch of American/Italian/Spanish/etc type of meals, though I would include CP as well as it is a little better for a beginner (but not a children's book as one review suggested!). Definitely recommend it as a gift and for your own kitchen!
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Ive been a fan of Bubbe for years on public access television. This cookbook is fun and easy, I highly recommend it. There's also a bit of a backstory as well.
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I love cookbooks and obviously I love to read, so when the offer came to review The Book Club Cookbook, I jumped at it. What could be more fun than to have available some of the recipes from the most popular book club books? And if it's your turn to host your book club, well, this book will make choosing a dish so much easier.

This book covers some of my favourite novels: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows), and The Help (Kathryn Stockett) as well as some I have yet to read but are on the top of my towering TBR list: Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese) and Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen). Actually, the list of books on my own TBR list overlaps quite a bit with the books featured in this cookbook. Each novel's recipe is preceded by a description of the source book and some are followed by an explanation of the food, thoughts from the author and/or a book club's take on the book itself and why they chose a particular food for their club.

So far I've made two recipes (I'm planning another this weekend). Both are cookies - Chewy Oatmeal from the book Plainsong by Kent Haruf and Chocolate Chip Shortbread from Bee Season by Myla Goldberg. Both turned out great and were gobbled up by my family in no time. It doesn't just have cookies or sweets - there are savory dishes as well. There is Zaytoon's Chicken Shwarma from Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn, Britta's Crab Casserole from The Hours by Michael Cunningham, Greek Rice Pudding and Tzatziki from Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. There are drinks in here too: Glgg from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as well as soups and salads. An ambitious book club could have an entire meal with several courses if they didn't mind mixing their books!

Another great thing about this book club cookbook is that the featured novels range from contemporary to classic, so that a club is bound to find something of interest. I could see using this book for future club choice ideas as well. It would also make a great gift for an avid reader, book club member or not. I highly recommend it!
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I have enjoyed looking at the cookbook, tried one receipe so far, and can't wait to try more this summer.
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For the price especially, these books are fun. The recipes are good, simple, quick, and do not require a lot of hard to find ingredients. Very handy just now as due to work we are not currently in a real city with enough ethnic diversity to make some of my usual recipes even possible. I plan on trying a few more books in this series.
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I love when I get a cook book and it's as much fun to read a it is to cook from. Michaud's narrative is engaging (what happens next?) and the photos and recipes are inspiring. I've had his food in Philadelphia (amazing) and can't wait to spring it on my guests at home.
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I have always been a fan of Taste of Home, so to add another of their cookbooks to my collection was a must.  There are lots of fun, easy recipes that sound so good in this cookbook.
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There are serval recipes that look great to make in this cookbook. can't wait to try them out.
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Wonderful, fun cookbook.  The recipes are as vibrant as the pictures!
I am cooking my way through this book, and smiling, as well as enjoying the food.