Famous Restaurant Recipes: Copycat Versions Of America's Favorite Restaurant Dishes [Paperback]

Sallie Stone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 13, 2009

Have you ever craved restaurant fare late at night only to find out the restaurant has closed? Now you can make restaurant dishes at home anytime you like and amaze your friends. The author, a seasoned restaurant professional, recreates over 50 items from restaurant menus across America. Make everything from O'Charley's Black & Bleu to Benihana's Banana Tempura.

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About the Author

Sallie Stone is the author of Famous Restaurant Recipes: Copycat Versions of America's Favorite Restaurant Dishes. The author has worked in many restaurants as a manger, a waitress, and as a hostess. She worked in both fast food and full service restaurants. Sallie studied Art History and Museum Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and holds a B.A. in Art History from that school. Sallie lives in the mountains of southwest Virginia on her family's tree farm. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 108 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (January 13, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1441433635
• ISBN-13: 978-1441433633
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #548,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sallie Stone is the author of Famous Restaurant Recipes: Copycat Versions of America's Favorite Restaurant Dishes. The author has worked in many restaurants as a manager, a waitress, and as a hostess. She worked in both fast food and full service restaurants. Sallie studied Art History and Museum Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and holds a B.A. in Art History from that school. Today, Sallie lives in the mountains of southwest Virginia on her family's tree farm.

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Short and Sweet, October 11, 2010

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Timothy Walker (Orlando, Florida USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Famous Restaurant Recipes: Copycat Versions Of America's Favorite Restaurant Dishes (Kindle Edition)

Inspired by Top Secret Recipes, this Kindle recipe book was certainly worth its purchase price. All of the recipes are reasonable recreations of dishes found in restaurant chains, none too challenging for the amateur home cook.

While many of the recipes could be recreated with just a little research and common sense, I appreciate that Ms. Stone has already done the leg work for me. There are a few dishes I would not have attempted without her pointers (the Chili's-inspired black bean burger for one) and only a couple of recipes that struck me as mere cookbook filler (Hooter's wings = wings, Hooter's brand breading, and Hooter's wing sauce).

Conversion to e-book format brought no enhancements - it is basically just a text file - but using the Kindle "Search This Book" option is sufficient to overcome this limitation. For the price, no complaints.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars No table of contents, June 18, 2011

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J. Burgett (Laurel, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Famous Restaurant Recipes: Copycat Versions Of America's Favorite Restaurant Dishes (Kindle Edition)

Text searching only works if you know what you are looking for. A table of contents would have made this a lot more useful. As it is you have to page through the book to see what is in it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Secret Recipes Revealed, December 3, 2011

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Joan Reeves "It's never too late to live happ... (TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This cookbook was worth the price for me because it offered some family favorites: Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuits, Blackeye Pea Fried Corn, and Olive Garden Tuscan Potatoes. We no longer have Orange Julius in our malls, but my daughter remembered it from years ago when she was a kindergartener and loved the recipe in the book. Her fiance declared the copy cat Red Lobster biscuits a hit.

The food turned out to taste just like the restaurant items, and the recipes were easy to follow.

A table of contents would probably be helpful, but I didn't really require one because I'm more of a recreational cook now I suppose. When I'm not on deadline, desperately trying to finish my latest novel, I cook. When I cook and want to try a new recipe, I like paging through a cookbook to see what strikes my fancy.

This cookbook has lots of popular restaurant dishes to tempt you into the kitchen.