College Cuisine [Spiral-bound]

Leila Peltosaari (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 30, 1998

Over 150 easy, cheap, fast, nutritious recipes for students and other beginners. Equipment, cooking terms, imperial and metric measurements. Shopping & cleaning tips, safety rules, fixing mistakes. Perishables (shelf life, recipes), basics (eggs, beans, pasta, potatoes, rice), minute meals, midnight snacks, microwave miracles, soups, salads & dressings, crowd pleasers, meat, chicken, fish, vegetarian, baking (breads, muffins, cakes, cookies), sweet stuff, beverages, smoothies.

Editorial Reviews

Review

College Cuisine is the ideal cookbook for any young person beginning independent living. It contains all the basic information one needs to furnish a kitchen, stock a pantry, cook nutritiously for oneself, and entertain others -- all at a modest cost. The author assumes no pre-existing knowledge or talent, and makes the learning process easier by providing a glossary of cooking terms, safety tips, shopping advice, and substitution tables. To ensure that nothing goes to waste, there is a listing of the shelf life of many products, recipes for perishables and leftovers, and many practical tips scattered throughout the book. There are more than 150 recipes, which cover all the usual categories. All the recipes specify preparation and cooking times, and list ingredients in both metric and imperial measures. Most have icons indicating main characteristics, such as cheap, fast, microwavable, vegetarian, and good for crowds. A coiled binding enables the book to lie flat when in use. -- Canadian Book Review Annual, Arlene Gryfe, nutiritionist/dietician

Don't let students leave home without this cookbook. (It) is at once a basic, thrifty, sensible cookbook. If you have a son, daughter, niece, nephew, or someone you love leaving home who is going to look after themselves for the first time, give them a good start with a copy of College Cuisine. -- Della Radcliffe, Home Ec., FarmLife

There is, indeed, life after take-out pizza. College Cuisine is a user-friendly cookbook of easy, fast, cheap, nutritious recipes ...with some costing pennies per serving. -- Montreal Gazette

About the Author

Leila Peltosaari Albala, a native of Finland, now lives with her family near Montreal in Quebec. She loves to cook and her kitchen is filled with enticing aromas of many countries. When her college-age son moved away from home and needed good recipes, this book was written with recipes tested on author's children and their many friends. Her best-selling titles include several sewing books, Halloween costume book, and craft books for children.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 123 pages
• Publisher: Tikka Books (November 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1896106013
• ISBN-13: 978-1896106014
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #992,555 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exellent book for clueless cooks, August 2, 2001

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C. Tierney (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: College Cuisine (Spiral-bound)

I love this book! I'm in college, and although I consider myself to be an experienced cook, this book rocks! Peltosaari has included tips for food storage, using leftovers, shelf life, and cooking terms in addition to the many easy recipes. All of the recipes are economical, nutritious, and delicious. If you don't even know how to make scrambled eggs, or if you're on a tight budget (like me!) then this is the book for you!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great starter cookbook!, February 17, 2004

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Sandra Phillips (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: College Cuisine (Spiral-bound)

What a lifesaver to be able to pick up a book for my son going off to college that was exactly right for his needs. He had no idea about cooking terms, shelf life for foods, how to shop, clean up or what equipment to use. I especially liked the idea that there was a list of how to fix mistakes, which we are sure will happen! Hopefully he will read about how to avoid wasting leftovers. This book is perfect, geared for anyone with no previous cooking experience, and is great for anyone on a tight budget or those cooking for one. He liked the minute meals, since he has no patience to wait for food to cook, and would naturally go for frozen or junk food. With this book there is hope he will eat something healthy.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars delicious food, April 1, 2004

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Janna Frost (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: College Cuisine (Spiral-bound)

This is a fantastic book; I've had it for many years and I use it all the time. The author makes simple recipes out of totally ordinary ingredients. She finds new twists for common ingredients, that bring out all the flavor and make it exciting to try things out. The recipes are so approacheable, because they're so easy. You'll keep using it, because the food is so tasty.