1001 Snacks: For Instant Gratification [Hardcover]

Gregg R. Gillespie (Author), Zeva Oelbaum (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 10, 1997

The companion to the popular 1001 Cookie Recipes and 1001 Chocolate Treats, this collection is guaranteed to bring readers instant gratification--any time of the day or night. Nearly all the recipes can be prepared in 20 minutes or less. Chapters are included on quick snacks, small salads, grain dishes, fish and seafood, chicken and turkey on the run, fruit snacks and quick breads. 1,001 photos.

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About the Author

Gregg R. Gillespie, the mastermind behind the successful 1001 series of cookbooks, has owned, operated and managed retail and commercial baking establishments in New England and California. He lives, cooks, and collects recipes in Niagara Falls, New York.

Zeva Oelbaum is a New York-based still life and food photographer. Her work can frequently be seen in The New York Times Magazine, House Beautiful, and many other magazines and books.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 448 pages
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (January 10, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884822975
• ISBN-13: 978-1884822971
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,356,053 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

My cooking/baking carrier was handed down from my mother and father. I baked my first cookies in 1943, in grade school in Buffalo. New York. Although I have had thirty seven major occupations, and five companies of my own, I have always returned to cooking as my love and profession. I start to write and prepare the cookbooks when I became disallusion by the cost per recipe of the cookbooks then on sale. Why should I, why should anyone pay two and three dollars for a recipe because it is printed in a book with fancy pictures. I made it my goal with my first cookbook, to prepare a cookbook whereby the buyer would be paying only pennies for what they had in the past paid dollars for. This has been my one goal since the first page crossed my computer screen.

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More Than Just Snacks, September 12, 2000

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Caro61 (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1001 Snacks: For Instant Gratification (Hardcover)

This is a more versatile cookbook than I expected. There are recipes that can be whipped up quickly but also recipes to serve at parties, potlucks and to bring to work, school, whatever. Some of his 'snacks' would make a meal for me. I have all of Gillespie's cookbooks and I love them all. Buy this book--you'll find a dozen or more recipes that you can't wait to try the first time you leaf through the book.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Buy it, December 31, 2000

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R. Sparks "middle_path" (Norman, Oklahoma United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1001 Snacks: For Instant Gratification (Hardcover)

I stumbled onto this little goldmine in a used bookstore in Enid, Oklahoma of all places. I picked it up to pass an hour that I had before an appointment and have since crawled through the entire book numerous times. I've made almost half of the recipes as is evident by the ingredients ground into the pages themselves. . .

Having lived in 12 countries and half a dozen states in this one, I have found that I love food. All food. Food from everywhere. All of it. This book has recipes from all over the country and the world and most are as I remembered them! All are tasty, even if some are on the "Why would I spend that much time on a snack" side.

The chapters are laid out with easy to follow instructions and photos for every recipe! Recipe books without pics are a real pet peve of mine. Granted, I only have 40 some-odd recipe books, but I have found, invariably, that those that have the food represented in a visual manner are those that I go back to more often. Food is as much a visual experience as it is one of scent or taste.

There isn't much by way of history, but then again you're already getting more than what the title promises!

Why not 5 stars? It's a good cook book. It's not a GREAT cookbook. The author doesn't make suggestions as to alternate ingredients and many of the ingredients used would have to be purchased specifically for the preparation of the snack. This small problem aside, this book is well worth having.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Snack on this, October 16, 2005

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Lola (wanderer) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1001 Snacks: For Instant Gratification (Hardcover)

Well, I'm not sure what the tastes of previous reviewers are, but they certainly are not aligned with mine. Thank goodness I checked this out from the library instead of immediately ordering it. I was appalled to discover how absolutely disgusting many of the recipes sound. To give you an idea: "anchovy balls," "cooked tongue canapes," and "mayonaise popovers" (the poor Brits would be dying a thousand deaths over what has happened to their beloved Yorkshire puddings in this recipe). Fancy a recipe for chicken skin? Because it's in here!

Many recipes favor 70s recipe stars like white bread (read: Wonder Bread), "American processed cheese," cream cheese balls and the equivalent of Vienna sausages. My stomach trembles. And then there are the Duh, Obvious "snacks" like toast (!!) or my personal favorite, a "recipe" for a hot dog and a piece of wonder bread wrapped around it. There clearly must have been a struggle to reach the 1001 total. I also had a good laugh about how often the word "Oriental" is used in a recipe's title -- dude, please, escape 1971 and enter our new century.