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#1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series with more than 4 million books sold! Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars gobbling up meals at full-service 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!Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100452275873
ISBN-139780452275874
eBay Product ID (ePID)1123292
Product Key Features
Book TitleTop Secret Restaurant Recipes : Creating Kitchen Clones from America's Favorite Restaurant Chains: a Cookbook
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
TopicDiet & Nutrition / Food Content Guides, Food, Lodging & Transportation / Restaurants, Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Regional & Ethnic / American / General, Specific Ingredients / General
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Cooking, Health & Fitness, Business & Economics
AuthorTodd Wilbur
Book SeriesTop Secret Restaurant Recipes Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight9.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsPraise for Todd Wilbur's #1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series "[Wilbur's] problem isn't that the recipes he's devised aren't good enough, it's that they're too good."-- Entertainment Weekly "There is something magically compelling about the idea of making such foods at home...The allure is undeniable, and [the books are] stuffed with tidbits and lore you're unlikely to find anywhere else. These probably come as close as you can get to the original recipes."-- Boston Herald "This is the cookbook to satisfy all your cravings."-- Juli Huss, author of The Faux Gourmet "The recipes are easy to follow and... by preparing your own versions of restaurant meals you will almost always save money."-- Arizona Daily Star "[Wilbur's] recipes use everyday supermarket ingredients to bring brand-name foods to the home kitchen. Perhaps not surprisingly, his recipes are not complex. If anything, they reflect how easy home cooking can be."-- Star Tribune (Minneapolis--St. Paul) "The assignment: Find out how to make the tasty Jack Daniels Grill Sauce used by T.G.I. Friday's restaurants. The client: Oprah Winfrey. The gumshoe: Todd Wilbur. Mission Impossible for even the most savvy food expert. But not so for Todd Wilbur, a crackerjack culinary sleuth."-- Pocono Record "Many of [Wilbur's] dishy imitations come, like a box of Cracker Jacks, with a surprise inside."-- Mademoiselle, Praise for Todd Wilbur's #1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series "[Wilbur's] problem isn't that the recipes he's devised aren't good enough, it's that they're too good."-- Entertainment Weekly "There is something magically compelling about the idea of making such foods at home...The allure is undeniable, and [the books are] stuffed with tidbits and lore you're unlikely to find anywhere else. These probably come as close as you can get to the original recipes."-- Boston Herald "This is the cookbook to satisfy all your cravings."-- Juli Huss, author of The Faux Gourmet "The recipes are easy to follow and... by preparing your own versions of restaurant meals you will almost always save money."-- Arizona Daily Star "[Wilbur's] recipes use everyday supermarket ingredients to bring brand-name foods to the home kitchen. Perhaps not surprisingly, his recipes are not complex. If anything, they reflect how easy home cooking can be."-- Star Tribune (Minneapolis--St. Paul) "The assignment: Find out how to make the tasty Jack Daniels Grill Sauce used by T.G.I. Friday's restaurants. The client: Oprah Winfrey. The gumshoe: Todd Wilbur. Mission Impossible for even the most savvy food expert. But not so for Todd Wilbur, a crackerjack culinary sleuth."-- Pocono Record "Many of [Wilbur's] dishy imitations come, like a box of Cracker Jacks, with a surprise inside."-- Mademoiselle
Lccn96-049396
Grade fromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal641.5973
Grade toUp
Lc Classification NumberTx715..W6587 1997
Table of ContentTop Secret Restaurant RecipesIntroduction Table for Two: The Restaurant Tale Applebee''s® Neighborhood Grill & Bar Quesadillas Pizza Sticks® Oriental Chicken Salad Club House Grill Tijuana "Philly" Steak Sandwich® Benihana® Hibachi Chicken and Hibachi Steak Dipping Sauces Japansese Fried Rice Bennigan''s® Buffalo Chicken Sandwich California Turkey Sandwich Cookie Mountain Sundae® Big Boy® Cream of Broccoli Soup Original Double-Decker Hamburger Classic Club Sandwich California Pizza Kitchen® Original BBQ Chicken Pizza Thai Chicken Pizza Southwestern Burrito Pizza The Cheesecake Factory® Bruschetta Avacado Eggrolls Cajun Jambalaya Pasta Pumpkin Cheesecake Key Lime Cheesecake Chi Chi''s® Nachos Grande Sweet Corn Cake Twice Grilled Barbecue Burrito Mexican "Fried" Ice Cream® Chili''s® Grill and Bar Grilled Caribbean Salad Fajitas for Two Peanut Buttercup Cheesecake Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® Hash Brown Cassarole Eggs-in-the-Basket Chicken & Dumplings Denny''s® Scram Slam® Moons Over My Hammy® The Super Bird® Dive!® Carrot Chips® Sicilian Sub Rosa® Brick Oven Mushroom and Turkey Cheese Sub S''mores® Hard Rock Cafe® Filet Steak Sandwich Grilled Vegetable Sandwich Famous Baby Rock Watermelon Ribs® Orange Freeze Hooters® Buffalo Chicken Wings Buffalo Shrimp Pasta Salad Houlihans''s® Houli Fruit Fizz® ''Shrooms® Smashed Potatoes® International House of Pancakes® French Toast Cheese Blintz Banana Nut Pancakes Fajita Omelette Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon® Amarillo Cheese Fries® Black Bean Soup Texas Rice Sweet Bourbon Salmon Marie Callender''s® Famous Golden Cornbread Chicken Pot Pie Banana Cream Pie The Olive Garden® Italian Salad Dressing Hot Artichoke-Spinach Dip Toscana Soup Alfredo Pasta Outback Steakhouse® Bloomin'' Onion® Gold Coast Coconut Shrimp Walkabout Soup® Alice Springs Chicken® Perkins® Family Restaurants Potato Pancakes Granny''s Country Omelette® Country Club Omelette Pizza Hut® Original Stuffed Crust Pizza TripleDecker Pizza Planet Hollywood® Pizza Bread Chicken Crunch® Pot Stickers Red Lobster® Broiled Lobster Scallops and Bacon Stuffed Shrimp and Stuffed Mushrooms Red Robin Burger & Spirits Emporium® No-Fire Peppers® BBQ Chicken Salad Mountain High Mudd Pie® Ruby Tuesday® Potato Cheese Soup Smokey Mountain Chicken Sonora Chicken Pasta Strawberry Tallcake® for Two Ruth''s Chris Steak House® Barbecued Shrimp Petite Filet Creamed Spinach Potatoes Au Grain Shoney''s® Country Fried Steak Slow-Cooked Pot Roast Hot Fudge Cake Sizzler® Cheese Toast Chicken Club Sandwich Southern Fried Shrimp Stuart Anderson''s Black Angus® Cheesy Garlic Bread Western T-Bone Whiskey Pepper Steak T.G.I. Friday''s® Potato Skins Nine-Layer Dip California Chargrilled Turkey Sandwich Spicy Cajun Chicken Pasta Friday''s Smoothies® Tony Roma''s A Place for Ribs® World Famous Ribs Original Baby Backs Carolina Honeys® Red Hots® Western Sizzlin''® "Teriyaki" Chicken Breast Bibliography Trademarks Index