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3.0 out of 5 stars
Not what I was looking for, October 2, 2007
This review is from: Dorm Dining 101: Your guide to easy, cheap and low maintenance cooking for the university/colleg student (Paperback)
This book should be called "Cooking in your first small kitchen" because the author assumes that the cook has a stove and a good place to wash vegetables and dishes. Dorm dining to me means the cook has a table in the corner of their room with a microwave and a cube refrigerator. I would say that the average college student can easily go to the corner store but can only get to a big grocery store 1-2 times a month. Recipes should take that into account. The writing in this book is somewhat sloppy, by that I mean there is a recipe that calls for a can of salmon but it doesn't say what size can. Go to the grocery store- salmon comes in tiny cans and huge cans. Many of the recipes call for a baking pan and don't even give a clue about what size to use. Have you ever poured all your ingredients into a pan and then realized that your pan was hopelessly too big or too small? I have.
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