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Big Food: Amazing ways to cook, store, freeze, and serve everything you buy in bulk [Paperback]

Elissa Altman (Author)
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July 28, 2005
Buy food in bulk and reap the savings—without waste or an endless parade of leftover meals—with this superb cookbook filled with ideas for cooking creatively for an average-sized family

More and more Americans are purchasing their groceries today in large quantities at price clubs and warehouses. But our meal planning and cooking habits have not caught up with this trend. At last, here is the first cookbook designed to help shoppers make the most of the money-saving and culinary rewards that these clubs have to offer—without having to eat the same dish four nights in a row or trash the unused portions.

How long can I keep salad greens before they turn into something out of a horror movie? How can I use that 72-ounce can of tuna without making 110 tuna sandwiches, like Woody Allen did for his army in Bananas? In Big Food, award-winning journalist and food writer/editor Elissa Altman tells readers how to shop, meal plan, and cook inventively; how to store food safely; and how to use her 150 delicious recipes to turn large quantities of chicken, for instance, into Apricot-Glaze Roasted Chicken; Asian Chicken-Stuffed Lettuce Rolls; and Quesadilla of Chicken, Childes, Tequila and Lime or a 6-8-pound salmon fillet into Curried Salmon Salad with Grapes and Walnuts, Cold Poached Salmon with Horseradish Cream, and Smoked Salmon Omelet.


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ELISSA ALTMAN is a prize-winning writer, journalist, and essayist in the area of food, culture and travel. Formerly a manager at Dean & Deluca and a senior member of the HarperCollins editorial staff for 10 years, she presently lives in Connecticut.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Rodale Books (July 28, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1594860874
  • ISBN-13: 978-1594860874
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.3 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #751,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Save Money & Eat Well, January 30, 2006
This review is from: Big Food: Amazing ways to cook, store, freeze, and serve everything you buy in bulk (Paperback)
We all do it - buy too much of something just because the bigger container was a better buy. This book addresses that and even has an exercise to understand your food buying habits. A lot of the book is devoted to recipes to help you use that food surplus, but the book also gives shopping advice and helps you streamline your pantry.
I really like the Big Food Action Chart which helps match the food I have on hand with the recipes needing those ingredients. This is the book for anyone who hates to see those outdated supplies clogging up their pantry shelves and hates, even more, throwing such stuff away.
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4.0 out of 5 stars ingenious design for a cookbook, January 28, 2008
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This review is from: Big Food: Amazing ways to cook, store, freeze, and serve everything you buy in bulk (Paperback)
I had first thought this cookbook was a "once a month cooking" type of cookbook in that you purposely buy a lot of one type of item and then start a marathon cooking session. This cookbook was not like that. It's more of a cookbook that if you were to buy 3 lbs of spinach this is what you could do with it. The first suggestion was to make a warm spinach salad with mushrooms and bacon. The recipe was included along with a homemade vinaigrette dressing. Suggestions were given on how to store the remaining spinach but you'd have to go to the back of the book to find other recipes to use up that spinach; but there are several.
Now the downside of the cookbook: there are no pictures. I always think it adds to the validity of a cookbook especially to have pictures of the author, recipes, and such. The other downside is the first 30 pages of the cookbook are just verbiage. The author tells stories about her childhood, how her grandparents purchased their groceries, equipping your kitchen and whatnot. Not necessarily useful information as far as a cookbook is concerned. Also, it's a little hard to read because the ink is blue and in several places it's also printed on blue background so it's very hard to read in those sections. You need good light.
Nevertheless I think this is a great cookbook. It provides a lot of useful information for those who are costco junkies! ha-ha.
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When I was a child growing up in Forest Hills, New York, I bore witness to a spectacularly odd shopping style that still confounds me to this day: my grandmother had the peculiar habit of buying what was on saleanything that was on sale. Read the first page
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dated freezer bag, leftover skinless, secondary dishes, packaged stock, canned posole, using fresh tuna, freeze the balance, salad crisper, grill over indirect heat, wrapped the same way, duty freezer bag, style plum tomatoes, discount club, dark location, store the balance, cooked skinless, lettuce rolls, leftover pork, poached chicken breasts, style tomatoes, sautéed greens, spice blend, kosher salt, salmon burgers
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Basic Chicken Stock, Mediterranean Spice Blend, Roman-Style Sautéed Greens, New York, Fromage Fort, Pan Bagnat, Monterey Jack, Chicken Ragu, Pecorino Romano, Asian Chicken-Stuffed Lettuce Rolls, Balik Fish, Brazilian Feijoada, Chicken Croquettes, Grilled Vegetable Salad, Oven-Barbecued Pulled Chicken, Pinot Noir, Torta Rustica, Tuna Salad Niçoise, Quesadilla of Chicken, Spicy Southwestern Corn, Traditional Bolognese Sauce, Traditional Jewish-Style Chicken Soup, White Bean Hummus, Asian Chicken Soup, Asian Spice Blend
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