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Top Secret Recipes Unlocked: All New Home Clones Of America's Favorite Brand-Name Foods (2009)

by Todd Wilbur(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0452295793 (ISBN13: 9780452295797)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Plume

review 1: The big fast-food and brand-name food businesses do know what they are doing, no matter what we will say in public and private, and they make those oh-so-comfortable dishes that we want to eat and eat again. Now you can attempt to recreate or emulate many of your favourite dishes at home.Author and broadcaster Todd Wilbur has made it his professional quest to try and recreate "Top Secret Recipes" and enable the home cook to pay homage in their own kitchen to many popular dishes. Of course, the author cannot have any inside knowledge for a number of legal and ethical reasons, but he can use his expertise to try and determine individual ingredients, research open source materials and try and find a few tips, before making, making and more making of the recipes until the "bes... moret possible match" is found.Wilbur has also featured in a number of television programmes showing how he goes about reproducing a given dish before having a "taste off" with the producer.. with somewhat varying results.Naturally this is written for an American audience, featuring products mostly available only in the USA, yet this book will allow many non-Americans to at least taste something that approaches the brand-name product and maybe adjust it further to their own taste. Clone recipes exist for a range of branded doughnuts, puddings, chilli, quesadilla, breads, cakes, drinks and various meat dishes - over 100 different recipes in all!Each recipe is provided with a good, basic introduction before following on to a clear ingredients list and step-by-step instructions. Everything seems easy to follow and understand, even if one is not familiar with the products at hand, but it would have been nice to have seen a colour photograph of the "finished product" and maybe get the chance to read a few words of what one must taste in order to feel one has achieved the aims. Of course, the core audience might know what a given McDonald's product tastes like, but nonetheless the little extra work could aid the wary cook and the confused foreigner alike.The concept is good, the execution is good, but a few niggles make it less desirable to a non-US audience, which is a shame, but for Americans who enjoy their fast-food and brand-name food, this (and other books by the author) can be a great fit to your household.Top Secret Recipes Unlocked: All New Home Clones of America's Favorite Brand-Name Foods, written by Todd Wilbur and published by Plume Books. ISBN 978-0-452-29579-7, 265 pages. Typical price: GBP9.// This review appeared in YUM.fi and is reproduced here in full with permission of YUM.fi. YUM.fi celebrates the worldwide diversity of food and drink, as presented through the humble book. Whether you call it a cookery book, cook book, recipe book or something else (in the language of your choice) YUM will provide you with news and reviews of the latest books on the marketplace. //
review 2: I just finished browsing through TSR Unlocked. I have to say I glad I didn't buy this book, not because there are not any good recipes, but because There were only a few recipes that interested me. And I just copied them down in a note book. Ahhhh I love the library! lol Aside from that There are tons of recipes in this book ranging from Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookies to Lawry's Red Pepper Seasoning Salt. There are also 15 Starbuck's recipes for you coffee lovers! less

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