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Summary: Starting the Day off Right
Review: "A Real American Breakfast" is also a Real cookbook. The recipes are delightfully varied, drawing from our country's diverse heritage, and are also geared for busy cooks. They are quick and uncomplicated, as breakfast cooking should be, using easily obtainable ingredients. A quick thumb through the cookbook inspires one to get up a little earlier and fire up the stove with delicious results all but guaranteed. An excellent, fresh approach to America's forgotten meal by two of the best cookbook writers today.
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Summary: Starting the Day off Right
Review: "A Real American Breakfast" is also a Real cookbook. The recipes are delightfully varied, drawing from our country's diverse heritage, and are also geared for busy cooks. They are quick and uncomplicated, as breakfast cooking should be, using easily obtainable ingredients. A quick thumb through the cookbook inspires one to get up a little earlier and fire up the stove with delicious results all but guaranteed. An excellent, fresh approach to America's forgotten meal by two of the best cookbook writers today.
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Summary: Beautiful and useful
Review: A wonderful collection of recipes and helpful hints guaranteed to entice the biggest sleepyhead out of bed. These recipes make the most ordinary breakfast festive and turn special breakfasts into grand occasions. Beautifully photographed and elegantly written. A must for every collector.
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Summary: A feast for the eyes, too
Review: A wonderful collection of recipes delicious enough to entice the most die-hard sleepyhead to the table. Full of tips and techniques, beautifully photographed and elegantly written. A must for every collector!
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Summary: Rave Review from Breakfast Fans
Review: As one who starts every day with breakfast, it is a treat to come across a real book dedicated to the meal. Not to say every breakfast is fancy in our household, so finding a recipe for crunchy granola with flavor but not cups of oil has made it a standard for us. And, the Galisteo Inn's Cornmeal Scones may soon eclipse my husband's favorite buttermilk biscuits on weekends. Thanks for the tip on freezing unbaked scones - I've been giving frozen morsels to lazier friends for their Sunday morning enjoyment!
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Summary: The best breakfast cookbook
Review: I just bought this book at a bargain price, not expecting much from it. Boy, was I surprised!! This is a really good book full of original recipes, not your usual waffle and pancake breakfast cookbook. The pictures are absolutely beautiful, and the recipes look delicious. For the cookbook collector, this is a must.
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Summary: Best Breakfast in Town
Review: I was pessimistic about this cookbook. I have been looking for an excellent breakfast cookbook for years with no luck, until now. It has the best recipes. I always want to try out pricy cookbooks so I admittedly went to my local Borders, borrowed two recipes and tried them. They were excellent. I even did the unthinkable, I made a recipe to serve at a breakfast meeting without trying it first. The overnight french toast was very different and fabulous, including the presentation idea.I highly recommend this book!
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Summary: An inspiring collection
Review: Most breakfast cookbooks are top-heavy with variations on the usual: lots of waffles, omelets, home fries, and muffins. This one is unique, because it collects a set of recipes you *wouldn't* have thought up on your own. For instance, it's the only book in which I've found a recipe for goldenrod eggs (hard boiled eggs in a cream sauce, served over toast, with grated egg yolks and paprika sprinkled on top) except for a 1942 WWII-era pamphlet my mom had. It's the only recipe I've found for dutch baby pancakes -- sort of a cross between a pancake and a sweetened popover, traditionally served with lemon and maybe a sprinkling of confectioner's sugar. Aside from completeness, the recipes are clearly written, entertaining (with sidebars that include breakfast menus from, say, a 1904 hotel menu), and educational. I have at least three or four breakfast cookbooks. This is the only one I use regularly.
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Summary: Another Wonderful Cookbook by the Jamisons
Review: One can't help but start the day off right with dishes created from the recipes of this, again, wonderful cookbook by the Jamisons.
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Summary: A Real American Breakfast
Review: The Jamison's have done it again. They have another hit book about food. Notice I didn't call it a cookbook. It surely is a cookbook but it is so much more. This book is a blend of great recipes, nostalgia, and beautiful pictures. This brings you back to a time in our lives when we ate breakfast as a family instead of a fast food drive through. Those smells that you used to wake up too seem to resonate from the pages. The recipes have been good for me to get my family together for those week end breakfasts once again. Also, we have week end guests quiet often and it is so nice to have such a variety of recipes to choose from vs the usual breakfast stand bys. In this time when we all seem to be sreaching for comfort foods, this is the best cookbook I have found.
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