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Summary: Great Book for those in Rural Areas
Review: This is one of my favorite cookbooks. I live an hour from the nearest McDonald's and can't just drive to a chain restaurant. This cookbook assuages my cravings for good chain restaurant food. The recipes are great when you're craving restaurant food. The recipes for food I haven't tried at the restaurants (Hooters, TGI Friday's, Cheesecake Factory) are great. The recipes for food I had years ago (Bob's Big Boy) are great. The recipes are pretty simple. Even when they don't taste exactly like original restaurant version, they're still pretty good.
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Summary: A must have for any kitchen
Review: This is our favorite cookbook....although we have really loved using the other 4 as well. All the recipes that we have made so far have been great. You need at least the other two More top secret recipe books too. The Outback Coconut shrimp is identical and is SOO GOOD! We really love making the Cinnabon cinnamon rolls too...they turn out even Better than when we get them at the store! THere is such a variety of things to cook....appetizers, meals, soups, deserts, breakfast....this is a Must Have for any kitchen!
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Summary: bang
Review: this is the best it blew me away with the same food you would find in a french restarant
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Summary: Could not be better!
Review: This was the first of Todd's books I bought (I now own all 5),and what got me started with cooking. The recipes are easy to understand, ingredients easy to find, and they taste like the originals! Save money, buy this book, and have fun making food at home!...
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Summary: Easy to make and tastes like the real thing
Review: Todd Wilbur is the undesputed king of recipe clone cooks. Yes, you can find all sorts of "clone" or "copy" recipe web sites on the web but most of them really don't taste anything like the brand-name food they are supposed to be copying. Todd's creations are different in that they almost always are indistinguishable from the real thing and this book continues that fine tradition. This book is a godsend for those of us who live in parts of the country where some chain restaurants don't have a presence (I loved Chi-Chi's all during my youth until I left Wisconsin in 1992 and moved to California where Chi-Chi's doesn't exist). Todd's recipes are always trivial to create requiring few ingredients and few steps. Although there are no photographs, there are some nice illustrations in "blueprint" form that show you what the finished product will look like. Check out the table of contents to make sure there's something that catches you eye. In my opinion, this book is much more important than his other books which feature recipes for foods that you can get anywhere. I emailed Todd's website and they told me that a sequel "restaurant recipes" book is in the works. I will DEFINITELY buy that one too.
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Summary: This book brings us a taste of home!
Review: We are a Navy family currently stationed in Japan. When preparing for our move overseas, this was the first cookbook I set aside to pack. Familiar favorites from the restaurants we loved back home can now be recreated in my Japanese kitchen! I have not been disappointed in any of the recipes. Our personal favorites are Lone Star Steakhouse Black Bean Soup, Chili's Fajita's and Chili's Grilled Chicken Salad. I have all the Top Secret Recipe Cookbooks and love them all.
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Summary: My favorite book!
Review: What's great about this book, aside from the reasons Todd Wilbur listed on why copy restaurant recipes, is the history of the restaurant featured. Such lore gives you an insight on how these successful chains were built and expanded.
His recipes (for those I have tried) come close to the original (or what I remember them to be). Being in another country makes it possible for me to satisfy my craving for some Stateside food, especially if that chain is not present here in Manila.
Thank you, Mr. Todd Wilbur for this great service. Rest assured, I will buy your other books so I can get satisfy my jones for White Castle Slyders.
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Summary: Todd Wilbur's book hits the spot!
Review: When I purchased this book, I really wondered
whether or not it would live up to its name. I
have been thouroughly impressed! The
"Bloomin' Onion" has been a hit at home. It is a
perfect clone of the version made at Outback. Also, the Shoney's Hot Fudge Cake was a great
finale' to the Cajun Jambalaya Pasta from the
Cheesecake Factory. This book delivers exactly
what the title promises. Todd Wilbur, through his
understandable instructions and diagrams, enables
the home chef to duplicate recipes found at popular restaurants. The spectrum of recipes is
broad- from Ribs at Tony Roma's to Potstickers
at Planet Hollywood and Chi Chi's Fried Ice Cream.
This book has recipes that will appeal to almost
anyone. I highly recommend this book, and I look
forward to trying out the other recipes it has to offer.
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Summary: Todd Wilbur's book hits the spot!
Review: When I purchased this book, I really wonderedwhether or not it would live up to its name. Ihave been thouroughly impressed! The "Bloomin' Onion" has been a hit at home. It is a perfect clone of the version made at Outback. Also, the Shoney's Hot Fudge Cake was a great finale' to the Cajun Jambalaya Pasta from the Cheesecake Factory. This book delivers exactly what the title promises. Todd Wilbur, through his understandable instructions and diagrams, enables the home chef to duplicate recipes found at popular restaurants. The spectrum of recipes is broad- from Ribs at Tony Roma's to Potstickers at Planet Hollywood and Chi Chi's Fried Ice Cream. This book has recipes that will appeal to almost anyone. I highly recommend this book, and I look forward to trying out the other recipes it has to offer.
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Summary: A Big Miss
Review: Yes he may have determined some of the ingredients in the recipes he gives, but he didn't expose the secrets (those ingredients that give the product it's unique flavor). An example is the dipping sauce for Outback's Blooming Onion, as its basis he uses mayonaise. On first taste one knows that he definitely didn't give away any secret on this one, as the taste is not even close to being the same. Most of the other recipes work out like this also. Besides the fact that most of the recipes are from restaraunts like Denny's, Perkins, IHOP. Not exactly gourmet fare.
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