Customer Reviews

The Bush Family Cookbook: Favorite Recipes and Stories from One of America's Great Families (Lisa Drew Books)

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The writing was well done, easy to follow, and the recipes I tried were delicious. I did adapt some so they were less fattening, but it didn't detract from the quality. This book will definitly be given as Christmas gifts to the food fanciers of my family and friends.

I loved this book so much I went back and bought a copy for my mother in law. It's difficult to find a cookbook with more than a couple of stand out recipes but this cookbook has many. Even more surprising, the ingredients in most recipes were "pantry friendly".

Loved the Bush Cookbook. If I had a slight concern it would be that one might have to shop for specific ingredients (as we sometimes do for other recipes), some of us don't keep some of the ingredients (for several recipes) on hand. Otherwise, it was fun to make some of the Bush family's dishes, knowing they enjoyed them, too.

Ariel is to be commended for his stick -to -it- ness and his family who all sound wonderful. I enjoyed reading about him as much as the Bushes. And the recipes were different and good!

P. Hansen from the "west coast" is obviously a bit "left" biased..and probably loves vegetarian quiche and has a Jerry Brown bumper sticker on his car.....people like him remind me exactly why I moved my business from CA to Florida 5 yrs ago ...This is a solid book with excellent recipes ..wouldn't exactly call it health food ...but no true good food is ;)...

I bought this cookbook after having read an article in The Houston Chronicle. Then, I bought it as soon as it came out and flew home to try out the recipes. I've only been able to try one, so far, but look forward to the others. What a great cookbook and wonderful book to read as well! We just made a trip to the Bush Library in College Station too and having already read the cookbook helped put even more fun and excitement into the tour. If you're a cook or just love the Bush family, like we do, you definitely have to add this to your collection. We can't get enough of the Bush Family around here! Their sense of humor and undying faith are a blessing in this world today! Can't wait for '43's book and library either! Thanks for everything! The Ball Family, Houston

With the plethora of cookbooks available, you sort of have to wonder what the point of this one is.

Does anybody think that any publisher would seriously consider publishing a cookbook by a man whose total culinary credentials appear to consist of (1) Navy mess cook and (2) private cook to one family?

Ariel de Guzman is probably a nice man & a perfectly competent cook, but it is unlikely he would be a PUBLISHED cook without the "Bush" tag.

A number of the recipes sound quite good--but it's a little alarming, I must say, with all we have learned about nutritional values, to read that Mr. de Guzman thinks canned vegetables are "more nutritious than fresh."

One of the previous reviewers commented that "last year, at President Bush's yearly checkup at the doctor's, it was determined that he is as healthy as a well trained athelete...so the recipes are not bad for you." I think maybe that reviewer is a bit confused. I have to assume he or she is referring to the yearly physical of the CURRENT President Bush, not the former one. Ariel de Guzman is the former president's cook.

I would assume the present President Bush, who has not lived with his parents for many years, only occasionally eats de Guzman's food, so his reportedly splendid physical condition is due to other culinary influences. (I understand that Mrs. Laura Bush monitors the present President's intake of calorie and cholesterol laden foods quite closely.)

btw, I do rather resent the gratuitous description, by one of the reviewers, of President Clinton as a "grifter." This is, presumably, a COOK book, not a POLITICAL book. Let's try to keep those sorts of comments for the reviews of political books.

Really a good book

Some good recipes that I would try, but also some that I probably wouldn't.

It is bad enough that the media insterts their two cents in everything political...look at this book as a regular cookbook, and not as something with "Bush" on it. It has great recipes....and last year, at President Bush's yearly checkup at the doctor's, it was determined that he is as healthy as a well trained athelete...so the recipes are not bad for you, it is just the lazy ones who eat all day and don't exercise that gain the weight. Don't automatically slam stuff just because it deals with our great president.