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Summary: A HIDEOUS piece of GARBAGE. Absolute TRASH!
Review: I just looked at this book at my local bookstore and all I can say is; I wouldn't let a dog eat any of the garbage contained in the book. The recipes and ingredients are enough to gag a maggot. In the first place the author of the book stole the recipes from her chef. She also fired him soon after she signed the book deal with the publisher. I seriously doubt if "Dumb Bunny" Deirdre has brains enough to boil water, let enough brains to prepare any of the recipes in the book. I'll bet that most of the bleeding hearts who were conned into buying this abomination of a book were also the ones who bought memberships in Jim Bakker's PTL club and stock in Exxon. In other words they are suckers for a smooth talking pitch man. If you want to do something to help kids with cancer please donate to the Make-A-Wish Foundation or the American Cancer Society. Don't foolishly give away your money to some dried-up impotent old man and his gold digger of a wife. Charles Andrews
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Summary: Yoko Redux
Review: It makes me sick to think of how many trees were chopped down for this piece of self-indulgent fluff! The recipes are mundane and not worth the purchase. The pictures are sub-par. This book would never get published if this woman was not Don Imus's wife. Please spare us any more of your wife's "career."
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Summary: Run from this abortion. Run Fast. Very, very fast.
Review: I bought into the notion of a place for kids with cancer to go where the kids were treated in a way wholly different from the usual 'let's coddle these _special_ children: they may die soon'. Kids with cancer (these days) often survive, and they and their families (especially the siblings) are permanently scarred by the aforementioned notion of 'compassionate care'. Enter the Imus Ranch. Idea: great. Execution: horribly, horribly flawed. Don Imus and his hyper-flake spouse, Deidre, have foisted a full-blown scam upon some very reputable sponsors: NYSE, AT&T, and Reader's Digest, etc., to name but a few. Additionally, Don and his hyper-flake spouse, Deidre, have parleyed access to Imus' radio show into support by many of our cultures' illuminati, such as (Cuomo Aide and Democratic Party flack) Tim Russert, commies Feinman, Dietl, and Andrea Mitchell (sorry, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, but COULD IT BE MORE OBVIOUS?). THE COOKBOOK: The recipes are wholly inedible. The ingredients are available only in the most exclusive (and expensive) NY flake-food emporiums. Assuming you are wealthy enough to buy the ingredients, you must be at hyper-flake spouse, Deidre Imus', altitude for the cooking times to make sense. Here in Memphis, these cooking times yield virtually _raw_ results. THE BOOK ITSELF: Cheap paper (for the price). Execution borders on Sunday inserts in your local newspaper. Charles McCord's vaunted intro is sappy, sophomoric and 'can I kiss your ass one more time, Don' in tone. BOTTOM LINE: Pick a charity (I suggest your local United Way), give generously, and delight in not having lined the pockets of Don and Deidre Imus: two limousine liberals with a very, VERY well-executed plan for retirement with their idiot son (Don, are you SURE this little weasel is, in fact, YOURS?).
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Summary: Let Freedom Ring!!!
Review: If people were only retricted to writing flowery reviews, then our personal rights would be violated. I've read through many of the reviews of this book, and there does seem to be a lot of factual information processed here. It is no secret that Deirdre is controlling, and that there is a pending lawsuit over her not having compensated the chef she took the recipes from. It is a well-documented court case in public records that the Imuses had to pay the designer who really designed the ranch. Deirdre tried to take full credit for this and she also refused to pay Jane Smith Interiors her full due amount. But, aside from all the negativity and toxivity that Deirdre creates in her environment, this cookbook is a poorly written and badly organized treatise. I tend to agree with the reviewer who says there is too much processed food in the book. The book should have more grains and interesting vegetables. Everyone knows Deirdre cannot cook, and I think this hypocrisy is what is galvanizing all these reviewers. If Don can diss people and lie about them on air, then what is the harm in allowing people to voice their opinions on this website? I think it is interesting to read so many points of view. If all the negative reviews were removed and if only the flowery ones remained, then I would buy no more books through Amazon. Thank you, Amazon, for allowing America to have a voice!!!!! Let Freedom Ring!!!
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Summary: God Bless the Imuses
Review: I do wish that this cookbook were completely vegan, but I just watched Don, Deirdre, and Wyatt on CNBC, and I'm convinced of their authenticity and dedication to alleviating some of the suffering in the world--for animals and human beings. I remember seeing Don on the Nachman show, also, and he's totally sincere, I'm convinced. All the attacks on the Imuses should humiliate the silly and solipsistic people who are using this forum to show themselves as insecure and pathetic. I do wish that Amazon would refuse to post personal attacks that have nothing to do with the value of the books that are supposed to be "reviewed." It makes Amazon less valuable when we're forced to sift through nonsense for real reviews.
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Summary: What is going on here?
Review: Dear Amazon,
I have read a lot of reviews before but I must ask: don't you edit what you publish? Most of these "reviews" are nothing but personal diatribes against Imus by people (Stern fans?) who obviously have a personal agenda and write nothing that has to do to do with the book. Please clean up you act if you want to remain a reliable source of information. By the way, Fred Imus still appears regularly on the show.
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Summary: The "Queen of Greed" CANNOT Cook!
Review: The recipes in this pathetic excuse of a cookbook read like a modern day version of the "Add a Can of Campbell's Soup Cookbook." There is so much processed and packaged food that one has to buy in a health food store that it makes me wonder why even bother to make any of these silly recipes. All the vegetarians that I know pride themselves on cooking with FRESH things....not dried things, not canned things, and DEFINITELY NOT packaged foods. There is the use of garlic powder and onion powder in the recipes!! Well, EXCUSE ME, but if you claim to have this huge organic garden, then what happened to the all the fresh onions and all the fresh garlic????? I checked with buyers from both Wild Oats and with Whole Foods, and there is NO organic source for onion powder or garlic powder!!! Did "The Queen of Greed" stick these two toxic ingredients into her recipes and hope that we didn't notice??? There are recipes that call for canned chipotles in adobo sauce!!! EXCUSE ME AGAIN, but this product comes from Mexico and IS NOT organic. Mrs. Imus, you have a plantation in New Mexico where the fresh chiles and the dried chiles are plentiful!!!! Why not use your local wonderful chiles??? Why bring in a tinned toxic product from Mexico???? One one page your list of ingredients for a recipe include dried thyme and then on the opposite page the recipe calls for fresh thyme!!! Why the lack of consistency???? The recipes also lack nutritional information, and I think we all know the reason for omitting this information........because the recipes lack in protein and are loaded with junk and carbs!!! I am certain the person who claims to have lost 25 pounds in 2 weeks by cooking this gruel did so because she threw up after eating all this slop!
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Summary: Excelent
Review: I bought the book, read the articles, and cooked the food. Now I'm twenty five pounds lighter. Who could ask for more?
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Summary: To A Reader In Cambridge, MA
Review: Dear Reader in Cambridge MA,
I want to address this to you because you are the one who complained about me, and my TWO posts, not the person who has posted at least FIVE times. I HAVE indeed gone back and edited one of my posts, the first one I wrote. I am not taking back what I wrote I am changing the star value from 5 to 1. I am not changing it because I think that the book does not deserve a five because I really happen to like it and give believe it deserves the darn 5. But, you are correct, I did post two times and that may do something to the star ratings..I have no clue! The first time I wrote, anon. reader from Cambridge, MA I wrote because I was ordering the book in honor of my mother and as I had not read it I was really telling WHY I was purchasing the book. So, I gave it that 5 star rating when I probably should NOT have. I hope I have satisfied that part of the problem you are having with my posting. I apologize if I caused some skewing of the stars in my excitement. I do not apologize for liking this book! My mistake I suppose is for being so open and honest and OUT there by posting my name and town so that I can get hateful phone calls from hateful people. May I say that hateful people abound here in the reviewing of this COOKBOOK? A cookbook causing so many hateful comments, reviews and in my case, telephone calls! What is THAT all about? I guess this will once again skew something because in order to write this I must give it a star rating. I am ONLY giving it a one because I do not want to be considered spam. I want the telephone calls to stop. P.S. I LOVE this BOOK!
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Summary: Imus "ranch": Waco waiting to happen
Review: Even a shallow vanity project such as this book can have redeeming value. In this instance, Charles McCord's beautiful introduction causes this trainwreck of a cookbook to at least slam into the station. Unfortunately, when the train does arrive at its location, the "ranch" comes across as a combination of Neverland, the Waco compound, and Jonestown. Deirdre Imus stars as the megalomaniacal shrew; her pathetic, clueless, cash cow husband appears as the one who administers the Kool-Aid (is there little doubt about why the Kerrys and Imuses have such a close personal relationship--both appear to be mentally unstable couples in which the gender and power rolls are reversed). As for that Kool-Aid, it is mostly bland recipes of dubious nutritional value for cancer patients. I have no idea what the controversy about the chef involves, but if he concocted these insipid recipes stolen by Ms. Imus, he needed the boot. However, the book reads like someone with little experience in the kitchen tried to replicate someone else's dishes. The recipes are cost prohibitive because of the expensive ingredients, and poisons one wouldn't find at a fast food outlet--dangerous processed food--are included. It is unlikely a serious chef or anyone with actual culinary or nutritional training participated in the book, which is cheaply made and includes photographs of the tacky, garish ranch decor that makes Graceland appear like a font of good taste. Of greater concern, junk science is presented as absolute truth. Bogus claims that connect plastics to cancer have absolutely no basis in reality or scholarly research. It is in these bizarre assertions that the Imus Ranch emerges as a propagandized cult, where potential scandal and worse lurk in the shadows. I couldn't help but notice how Don Imus and Deirdre Imus have adopted the tactics of "Bo" and "Peep" of the Heaven's Gate cult to manipulate contributors, readers and parents. If the Imuses decide to follow Heaven's Gate's final act, the poison is readily at hand: the chemically polluted food. The author's rants on nutrition and environmental toxins strike the reader as more deranged than passionate. She and her slavish husband attempt to force this groupthink onto very vulnerable people, and this is unforgivable (check out the second chapter for an insight into a very disturbed mind. Finally, as an animal rights advocate, I find it hard to square how anyone could be a vegetarian and then abuse horses and cattle. The children come across as stage props. There is something infinitely sad about these beautiful kids being subjected to such evil, scheming human debris, fed what can only be charitably described as over-priced gruel based on pseudo-science, and told how Mommy's purchase of plastic toys has placed their lives in danger. Save your money, buy a real cookbook, and donate to the American Cancer Society.
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