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Summary: response to the psycho reviewer from Texas
Review: First and foremost this situation has nothing to do with the kids. Never once have the kids of the ranch been mentioned in any of my reviews or the insinuation that money was an issue. As a matter of fact the parents and kids have recently e-mailed Chef Ron to tell him how much they appreciated his efforts while he was employeed at the ranch. The ranch is a good place for the kids to go with the exception of the Imus's and their terrible attitude toward everyone. I am not to sure what proof you (the reviewer from Texas) are looking for but in your review you mentioned that the person was not even employeed at the ranch. Well I guess check stubs are as good as proof of any. I would like to know what third party dealings you have with the ranch because all of the other reviews are from people that have had first hand experience with the idiodic Imus's and so therefore I question whether or not you really have any first, second or third hand dealings with these people. Yes I am sure that many books have been written with no credit to a second party. That is neither here nor there to me. The fact is that Deirdre promised Chef Ron a bonus and his picture and autobiography in the book. That never happened and to top it all off he was termintaed because the kids and parents loved him!! So in response to calling people slim and black hearted get your facts straight befor you write an out of context review.
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Summary: The real story behind this cookbook is SICK!
Review: The real story behind this cookbook is SICK! Deirdre Imus stole these recipes from a chef who she fired right after she turned the manuscript into Rodale. It is too bad her former chef could not share some of her 6-figure advance from Rodale. She broke all her promises to him. Incidentally, all of the expensive ranch clothes she buys for herself from Barneys of New York are paid for out of proceeds to the ranch. I know this to be fact because I used to work in the ranch office. Just like several hundred other former employees, I was fired too.
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Summary: Poorly written recipes and text.
Review: I love to collect cookbooks!! Sometimes, I buy a cookbook because the recipes in the book are tantilizing to read, and when reading them I am inspired to make them. At other times, I buy a cookbook because the prose leading up to the recipes is informative and interesting. This book scores a big fat zero on both counts. Maybe Deirdre Imus should stick to writing about things she knows best. Maybe she should write a book on "How I Married Well, and What I am Doing Now to Milk the Stupid S.O.B. and All of His Media contacts."
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Summary: The recipes do not taste good.
Review: I bought this book before I read the reviews here on Amazon. Had I read the reviews first I would have saved myself over $110 (cost of the book: $30, cook of ingredients: $80).. I heard about this book and saw images of the food on the View. I rushed out to buy the book. I read through the book and found several recipes I wanted to make. I bought the ingredients and then I went to work in the kitchen. First, the times were all wrong as laid out in the book. The Imus Ranch is at high altitude. Were the recipes in the book meant only to work at high altitude? Second, none of the dishes tasted as good as I thought they should. I think I wasted both my money and my time.
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Summary: not worth it
Review: This book is not worth the price. And the money goes to a ranch for Imus to live on.
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Summary: Fred
Review: Where is Fred who did so much in creating this ranch? I'm surprised that Imus will not even ackowledge his brother. Shame on you Imus.
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Summary: Cooking for Cowboys?
Review: How many cowboys do you know who are vegetarians? Can you imagine John Wayne or Gary Cooper as vegetarians? Don't make me laugh! Deirdre Imus would have been smart to actually make this a cookbook for kids and cowboys, not for vegans. Don Imus needs to stand up to his wife and eat some meat. I saw Imus and his wife on Larry King the other night and he looked like a dead man propped up - pale and pasty. I tape the Imus shows in the mornings to watch later. It seems like he and his wife get sick alot. Deirdre is still reasonably young and can get away with eating this wacky diet. But Don, please, for heaven's sake, eat some steak!
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Summary: Spam Reviews?
Review: Why does Mary Gray of Auburn, Massachusetts, keep submitting multiple reviews of this book? If you don't like the first review you wrote, why not just edit it? The only reason to enter multiple reviews of the same book is to skew the results of the star scoring, and to draw attention away from all of the other individual reviews that you don't agree with.
In either case, it is unfair to the customers of Amazon.com to have someone keep bumping up the star ratings and reviews of a book for some undisclosed agenda. Do you have some interest in this book, such as a relationship with the publisher? Let's be clear... only the royalties are going to the Imus vacation spa, not the publisher's revenues. (If this were such a worthy cause, why wouldn't the publisher be donating their proceeds as well? Hmmmm, makes one pause and wonder, doesn't it?)
By the way, I bought this book, and I found it very disappointing. It is basically an infomercial for Don Imus and his wife to promote their own overblown egos, and to help fund their retirement hacienda. When you see other people like Paul Newman and Hamilton Jordan who have developed camps for seriously ill children, do you see them doing it in conjunction with a huge vacation estate for themselves, where major portions of the property are off-limits to the children? Of course not.
To buy this book and finance this shameful self-promoting couple is foolishness.
Buy another cookbook, and make a donation to a charity where you can see the results first-hand.
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Summary: A Review of the Imus Ranch Cook Book /Not The Imus Family
Review: I decided to order this book last week in honor of my mother. She loved Imus and she admired the work done on the Ranch for children with cancer. As soon as the book arrived I sat down to read the book and peruse the recipes. The photographs are wonderful of the children, the ranch and the food. I enjoyed reading about the day to day activites of the children and really enjoyed the stories by the children and some of the parents; My Time at the Imus Ranch.
I collect cookbooks and am always more than happy to add one to my collection. This is a beautiful book with some mighty tasty looking and sounding recipes. I am not a vegetarian but realize the worth of changing some of my ways!
I have a list of recipes I am ready to try this week; Crabbiless Crab Cakes, Homemade Pizza and Chicken Jack's 3-Bean Chili, which we are having today.
The recipes certainly are causing quite a stir, no pun intended. I am wondering if I would have been so inclined to read the book if not for all these negative reviews?!
I found the information about the vegan pantry very interesting as well as the "educate yourself" sections about such subjects as chlorine bleach and natural health and beauty items. I guess it is possible that folks who are already well-versed in these subjects might think it is "old news" but for someone who has been eating twinkies and ho ho's relying on the preservatives to extend her life, this is a very informative book.
This is certainly not, just a cookbook. The book tells the story of some children who are able to feel a sense of worth and accomplishment by roping cattle, riding horses, doing farm chores and being treated like normal children for even a little while in their lives, which may be filled with hospitals and doctors and sickness. There should be many places like this for children. I for one appreciate what happens at the Ranch for these children.
Great book! Great Recipes! Great Kids! Great Cause!
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Summary: The Greening of the Shrew!
Review: This cookbook should have been entitled "The Greening of the Shrew." The book is nothing more than a self-congratulatory treatise on how wonderful Deirdre Imus wants both the reader, as well as herself, to think she is. The book is nothing more than just another thinly veiled Imus marketing exploit to bleed the audience for more donations for this retirement ranch. When is America going to wake up and smell the greens?
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