Cheap Thrills Cuisine With Chef Peppi: A Collection of Quick, Tasty, Creative Recipes

Rating:
Summary: Everything it needs to be--and cute to boot
Review: Bill Lombardo, a professional chef, and Thach Bui, an illustrator, have for several years now teamed to create America's only culinary comic strip: "Cheap Thrills Cuisine."

"Cheap Thrills Cuisine" features the hippie-dippy, perenially grinning Chef Peppi and simple, pretty good recipes. Mother's Day Muffins, Lamb Chop Mignonette, Vindaloo Chicken, and Chocolate Mousse Cheese Pie are among the dozens of recipes that these two wizards somehow manage to fit into four or fewer cartoon panels and still make them seem worth making.

This would be an ideal gift not for someone who hates to cook'-a couple of the recipes are actually fairly involved and/or time-consuming'-but for the junior high or high schooler who has expressed a little interest in the goings-on in your kitchen. The book winningly combines humor with appealing recipes and visual hijinks.

Rating:
Summary: Everything it needs to be--and cute to boot
Review: Bill Lombardo, a professional chef, and Thach Bui, an illustrator, have for several years now teamed to create America�s only culinary comic strip: "Cheap Thrills Cuisine."

"Cheap Thrills Cuisine" features the hippie-dippy, perenially grinning Chef Peppi and simple, pretty good recipes. Mother�s Day Muffins, Lamb Chop Mignonette, Vindaloo Chicken, and Chocolate Mousse Cheese Pie are among the dozens of recipes that these two wizards somehow manage to fit into four or fewer cartoon panels and still make them seem worth making.

This would be an ideal gift not for someone who hates to cook�-a couple of the recipes are actually fairly involved and/or time-consuming�-but for the junior high or high schooler who has expressed a little interest in the goings-on in your kitchen. The book winningly combines humor with appealing recipes and visual hijinks.