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The Ultimate Cook Book: 900 New Recipes, Thousands of Ideas (Ultimate Cookbooks) Kindle Edition
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Here's the ultimate of ultimates:
900 new recipes from Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, authors of the Ultimate cookbook series. With nearly 400,000 books already in print, their series has followed a simple recipe to success: Give cooks hundreds of solid, basic recipes with thousands of ways to vary them, shake them up, and personalize them so that everyone can be an ultimate cook!
In The Ultimate Cook Book, Weinstein and Scarbrough tackle everything from breakfast to barbecue, stir-fries to steaks, chilies to curries, and paellas to puddings. Pick your favorite, cook it as a solid basic, or vary it in hundreds of ways to make the dish your own. You've got years' worth of dishes and a world of cooking experiences ahead of you. What could be more fun?
This comprehensive, easy-to-use compendium is the ultimate in inspiration, the ultimate in possibilities. Start your Ultimate cookbook collection today—or round it out with The Ultimate Cook Book.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWilliam Morrow Cookbooks
- Publication dateOct. 13 2009
- File size1.4 MB
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“This extensive cookbook will teach you everything from soup to nuts with innovative and straightforward recipes.” — Jacques Pepin (chef, cookbook author, cooking teacher, and host of his own PBS-TV series)
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Here's the ultimate of ultimates:
900 new recipes from Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, authors of the Ultimate cookbook series. With nearly 400,000 books already in print, their series has followed a simple recipe to success: Give cooks hundreds of solid, basic recipes with thousands of ways to vary them, shake them up, and personalize them so that everyone can be an ultimate cook!
In The Ultimate Cook Book, Weinstein and Scarbrough tackle everything from breakfast to barbecue, stir-fries to steaks, chilies to curries, and paellas to puddings. Pick your favorite, cook it as a solid basic, or vary it in hundreds of ways to make the dish your own. You've got years' worth of dishes and a world of cooking experiences ahead of you. What could be more fun?
This comprehensive, easy-to-use compendium is the ultimate in inspiration, the ultimate in possibilities. Start your Ultimate cookbook collection today—or round it out with The Ultimate Cook Book.
About the Author
Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough are the award-winning authors of nineteen cookbooks. They are contributing editors to Eating Well and columnists for weightwatchers.com, and they contribute regularly to Cooking Light, Fine Cooking, the Washington Post, and other publications. When they're not teaching cooking on Holland America cruise ships, they live in rural Litchfield County, Connecticut, with a fairly sane collie named Dreydl.
Product details
- ASIN : B000QTE9U2
- Publisher : William Morrow Cookbooks
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : Oct. 13 2009
- Edition : 1st
- Language : English
- File size : 1.4 MB
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 709 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-0061836732
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Part of series : Ultimate Cookbooks
- 鶹 Rank: #821,341 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #98 in Microwave Cooking
- #142 in Pie Baking (Kindle Store)
- #187 in Microwave Cookbooks
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About the authors
I'm a memoirist (although I'm not sure I still know what that means), as well as the writing half of a NYTimes bestselling cookbook team (with Bruce Weinstein, my husband and the chef in our duo). Once upon a time, I was an academic, working in nineteenth century American literature, teaching in Austin Writing slowly overtook my life. I started providing content for a little start-up called AOL, started writing screenplays for actors, and chucked it all to move to New York. These days, Bruce and I find our peace on ten acres in rural New England with two collies. My memoir, BOOKMARKED: HOW THE GREAT WORKS OF WESTERN LITERATURE F*CKED UP MY LIFE was just published. And we've got Instant Pot books galore, including the forthcoming INSTANT POT BIBLE: COPYCAT RECIPES, due out this fall.
One of America's premier food experts, Bruce Weinstein's training began at Johnson and Wales Culinary Institute. He then worked as an advertising creative director specializing in food and drink clients such as Lea and Perrins, Bols, Bacardi, and José Cuervo. This culinary/creative expertise led to his first book, Frozen Drinks With or Without the Buzz (Clarkson Potter, 1997).
The Ultimate Ice Cream Book soon followed in 1999, published by Morrow, and has sold over 250,000 copies to date. The ice cream title was the impetus for his best-selling "ultimate" series that now includes The Ultimate Party Drink Book (2000), The Ultimate Candy Book (2000), The Ultimate Shrimp Book (2002), The Ultimate Brownie Book (2002), The Ultimate Potato Book (2003), The Ultimate Muffin Book (2004), The Ultimate Chocolate Cookie Book (2004), The Ultimate Frozen Dessert Book (2005), and The Ultimate Peanut Butter Book (2005).
In March, 2007, HarperCollins brought out his magnum opus: The Ultimate Cook Book: 900 New Recipes, Thousands of Ideas. Chosen as a main selection of the Book of the Month Club this title has been touted by the likes of Jacques Pepin and Bette Midler. January 2009 saw the publication of Pizza: Grill It, Bake It, Love It, followed by Cooking Know-How, a technique driven cookbook by John Wiley in April, 2009. This book won the Gourmand International Cook Book award for best American cook book in the easy recipe category.
Along the way, other titles include Cooking for Two (2004), a new way to cook for American's burgeoning small households, as well as Grilling Essentials (2002) for the Cooking Club of America, The Stonewall Kitchen Cookbook (2001), and Dr. Phil's Weight Loss Solution Cookbook (2004).
In 2010 Bruce will have three new books published. Stewart Tabori, and Chang will publish Ham: An Obsession With The Hind Quarter in March then publish Bruce's first knitting book, Knits Men Want, in April. In May Simon & Schuster will publish REAL FOOD HAS CURVES - a 7-step plan to get off processed food.
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Reviewed in Canada on February 28, 2025Verified PurchaseCe livre est une magnifique source d’idées, trucs, recettes. J’ai déjà des dizaines et dizaines de marques pages de posé de recettes à faire. Super intéressant. Oui il n’y a pas d’images mais personnellement dans ce cas ci ça ne me dérange pas. J’ai presque tout les livres de c est auteurs et je suis fan.
- Reviewed in Canada on November 26, 2022Verified PurchaseLots of great recipes, great Christmas gift for myself !! Sure the daughters will be borrowing it !
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- CarrieReviewed in the United States on October 24, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Cookbook For Those Who Like to Look at Recipes But Also Like to Deviate to Follow Personal Tastes
Verified Purchase900 Recipes in all Categories (breakfast to dessert). This cookbook may very well replace my dog-eared Joy of Cooking which was given to me when I went off to college. The Ultimate Cook Book: 900 Recipes may be the cookbook that I send with my kids when they go off to college.
The philosophy behind this cookbook is to take basic, solid recipes and allow/help you customize them (endlessly) to your own taste. As the authors' state, "you get the best of both worlds: hundreds of recipes from two established food writers, combined with thousands of ways to make the dishes exactly as you want them." Plus, they prefer foods that can be prepared quickly. These two things alone made it my reason to purchase this cookbook.
Let's face it, because of habits, we tend to purchase the same things at the grocery store because we inherently know what suites our taste buds. However, we also get "tired" of the same dinner foods over & over & over. This book has allowed me to break out & try new things but "twist" them my way. I either experiment using what I have on hand or follow the "variation" suggestion that is at the end of most recipes.
At the beginning of each chapter, the authors do a good job in their introduction. For instance, in the Beef, Pork, and Other Meats section, " This chapter takes on the essential problem of meat: too much fandango ruins a good cut...." Within the chapter, the authors continue to explain how to handle the meat, how to select it and how to cut it. On top of that there are the recipes and side notes for sauces - something for the beginner cook, the rushed cook & the cook who wants to experiment a little but not go down the Gourmet/Fancy pan path.
Overall, this is a great cookbook for most cooks because of the solid base recipes, and especially for cooks who appreciate a base recipe and then like to deviate because he/she isn't very good at following recipes. It is the perfect cookbook for me, the cook who keeps throwing things into the pan until the meal tastes good. Next on my list to purchase is Cooking Know-How: Be a Better Cook with Hundreds of Easy Techniques, Step-by-Step Photos, and Ideas for Over 500 Great Meals by the same author.
- ChowReviewed in the United States on March 3, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars Joyce's Review of the Ultimate Cook Book
Verified PurchaseI love this Kindle download! I download the sample while sitting in my car at the grocery store and did a quick browse. Wow! Recipe for The Ultimate Granola. Terrific, I only need a few ingredients and cereal was on my list anyway.
The authors give you the basic recipe and then offer numerous suggestions of complimentary ingredients to change up the finished product. Nice! And I haven't even bought the book yet!
From learning how to make the perfect scrambled eggs for breakfast burritos, sandwiches, and migas, or just to enjoy "plain". Right there in that section I already have twelve suggestions for different breakfasts using scrambled eggs. Cool.
I bought the book and glad that I did. Contents include breakfast and brunch section (try out the peanut butter smoothie), Appetizers from dips to pizza, Salads (read up on the ultimate Salad Bar), Soups, Pastas, Cassaroles, Breads, Fowl, fish and shellfish (huge section), to meats, vegetables, grains, beans, tofu, to cakes, puddings, cookies, pies.
A huge amount of info and all right there on your Kindle (also available in print) so whenever and where ever you are, you can check out recipes, and stop by the store on the way home and get the ingredients. How great is that!
- marriagecoach1Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2014
4.0 out of 5 stars A full cookbook with over 600 pages
Verified PurchaseThis is a real cookbook in the kindle library in excess of 600 pages. Now the bad news, there is not a single
picture in the entire book. I HATE THAT and it is a continuing rant of mine over Kindle cookbooks.
Now the good news, there are lots of original recipes that I have not seen in other cookbooks
illustrating their individual style and voice as writers and chefs. I especially like that they have
extensive recipes for cooking game and fish.
Here is another great addition to the book that I have not seen in any other cookbook, it is their
resource vendors and their contact information. In other words their little black book of vendors
that they use which is worth the price of the book itself.
The reviewer is the author of the new Kindle book entitled:
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- J. C. RyanReviewed in the United States on September 11, 2011
5.0 out of 5 stars Truly an Ultimate Cook Book
Verified PurchaseI recently bought Weinstein and Scarborough's Cooking Know How and devoured it from cover to cover. When 鶹 recommended the Ultimate Cook Book I thought I knew what to expect. I must say that this book surpassed my expectations. I especially like the fact that they suggest variations or ways to combine portions of one recipe with other recipes in the book.
The Ultimate Cook Book is more of a straight forward cook book than Cooking Know How, however, it does contain it's share of "know how" on technique and even more on ingredients and flavor combinations.
For someone who has recently taken on family cooking responsibilities. I truly appreciate this book. Thank you, Weinstein and Scarborough for sharing your know knowledge and passion, and thank you 鶹 for a great suggestion!
Cooking Know-How: Be a Better Cook with Hundreds of Easy Techniques, Step-by-Step Photos, and Ideas for Over 500 Great Meals
The Ultimate Cook Book: 900 New Recipes, Thousands of Ideas
- Jim RichmannReviewed in the United States on August 23, 2015
1.0 out of 5 stars Kindle Edition is Unacceptable
Verified PurchaseMy review concerns the Kindle edition. As of the middle of 2015, there are plenty of cookbook authors who have figured out how to format for the Kindle. These authors are not among them. This book is not acceptable. There are no pictures nor diagrams, and even the cover image is out of proportion. The flow of the text is so uneven due to the poor formatting that it makes it a chore, not a pleasure, to read recipes for inspiration. Shame on the "hall of fame" reviewers and 鶹 for allowing this book to be sold for the Kindle.