Customer Reviews

1001 Snacks: For Instant Gratification

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

I wanted this book after purchasing and using "1001 muffins" by the same author for the last few years. It just happens to be my alltime favorite cookbook. I just received "1001 snacks" today and spent a hour drooling over the goodies in this gem of a book. I can't imagine why anyone would write such an awful review for a book they didn't even purchase. Don't believe a word of it! He uses white bread in some of the recipies in order to be able to roll it flat. And if you don't like white bread, use whole wheat. I have no problem substituting at will. So what if some of the recipies are simple. That's what I'm looking for! If you're going to be a critic, at least be fair. Don't pick out a few simple or unusual recipies and set them up as examples of what this book is about! It's not! It's variety! Simple, exotic, tasty and unusual ingredients is most certainly what this book is about. Try it, you'll like it.

I have been searching for a cookbook similar to this for some time. While many cookbooks offer a section on appetizers, or "snacks" as it were, they're generally limited to a small percentage of the book or too "foo foo" for my tastes. While there are quite a number of recipes in this book that don't whet my appetite or that I find downright gross, there are also a fair number that are interesting and/or inspirational. They also really run the gamut from rather effortless preparation to "do I really like these people enough to expend all this energy?" Rather than serving the same old, same old, it's nice to have a cookbook to look at for something a little different.

I agree with another reviewer that the recipes could use suggestions for alternative ingredients and yet the book is still inspirational.

I realize that a lot of the recipes are obvious and practical. The book includes some recipes that are very exotic in their origins. It inspires me to make the things that I've been thinking of making and yet when I finally have the time, it isn't obvious to me what I wanted to make, so I'll flip through this book and I'm reminded of some things I want to try.

I want to know that how can make the corn snacks & how was the recipy

i'm going to have so much fun trying all the snacks in this boo