10,001 Food Facts, Chef's Secrets & Household Hints [Mass Market Paperback]

Myles H. Bader (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1998

This is not a cookbook, but contains over 10,000 solutions to kitchen and cooking problems plus hundreds of household hints. More usable cooking and food information than any book ever published. Secrets such as

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This is one book that you will not be able to put down. The informantion is almost impossible to duplicate and the book is used every day of the year between all the cooking secrets and household hints. It is called the number one household reference book in the United States and Canada with over 10,000 solution to problems. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

The author received his doctorate from Loma Linda University and has practice preventive care for 22 years in major medical clinics. However the book was a result of his patients bringing in their grandmother's and great grandmother's cooking secrets. The book is not a health book. Dr. Bader has appeared on over 40 national TV shows and over 3,000 radio talk shows.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 628 pages
• Publisher: Northstar Pub; 1 edition (September 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964674173
• ISBN-13: 978-0964674172
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,587,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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118 of 123 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dreadful editing ruins the content, June 13, 2000

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Allison Stclaire "Rice lover" (Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 10,001 Food Facts, Chefs' Secrets & Household Hints (Paperback)

I found the information in this book to be minimally useful, and worse, marred by a lack of careful editing. Example: "more livilier" or "more fresher." Also, consistent use of "your" when the author meant "you're." Also, many repetitions of the same "facts," often under the same subheading.

I find such problems reduce my trust in what the author has said. Once or twice is understandable. Repeated over and over, such carelessness truly diminishes the validity of the material in the book.

Overall, this book has the look and feel of a low-quality, self-published book. That's not a comment on the quality of self-published tomes -- many are outstanding and professionally done. This one, alas, is not.

In addition, many of what the author purports to be "facts" are now proven to be old, questionable suppositions, many of which have already fallen out of favor. Many of these are fat and cholesterol related myths from the past 20 years, and which have been updated or questioned or rethought in the past few years, especially in the light of the efficacy of new theories of eating high protein/low carbohydrate diets, for example.

In sum: This book seems like a quickly thrown-together reworking of old material that the author has simply quoted from the popular press -- not a good source for hard facts. I'd like to know that, like good cookbook writers, he has tested each of these hypotheses for himself.

Definitely would like to get my money back for this book.

56 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars very interesting but not well edited, July 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 10,001 Food Facts, Chef's Secrets & Household Hints (Mass Market Paperback)

I have found Bader's book to be very interesting and full of stuff I didn't know. However, the editing is none too good- things are repeated in the same category; there are plenty of typos and word omissions, etc. Also, I'd like some idea whether his "hints" actually work or is he printing them to fill page space?

35 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's fun information, August 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 10,001 Food Facts, Chef's Secrets & Household Hints (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is filled with fun information. However, I agree the book is edited quite poorly.