Guerrilla Cooking: The Survival Manual for People Who Don't Like to Cook or Don't Have Time to Cook [Hardcover]

Mel Walsh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 1996

A cookbook written for people who do not like to cook or do not have time to cook provides more than two hundred recipes for day-in, day-out cooking as well as for special occasions. Tour.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

This "anti-Martha Stewart" book on entertaining will receive a 75,000-copy first printing.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Martha Stewart, watch out! There's a new generation of food comics, who, following Peg Bracken of the I Hate to Cook books, are lambasting and decrying the underlying philosophy of super-homemaker. One of those roundly applauded for their efforts to overcome a culinary inferiority complex is syndicated newspaper columnist Walsh, who delights in using foodstuffs of packaged and frozen natures. Any of the more than 200 recipes are certainly easily initiated; consider, for instance, "vodka tomatoes" : dip cherry tomatoes into a dish of vodka, then sprinkle with seasoned salt. Throughout, she generously gives instructions for "fast-strike meals," from her directions to always try to cook two things in one pot of boiling water to her guerrilla strategy of refusing to cook. Decent dishes spiced with an even better sense of humor. Barbara Jacobs

Product Details

• Hardcover: 196 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press; 1st edition (August 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312146108
• ISBN-13: 978-0312146108
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 7.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,089,996 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple, tasty recipes, and entertaining reading to boot., March 13, 1999

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This review is from: Guerrilla Cooking: The Survival Manual for People Who Don't Like to Cook or Don't Have Time to Cook (Hardcover)

This book provides cooking tips that are so helpful, you'll wish you had thought of them yourself. In addition to having few steps, the recipes have short ingredient lists. Many recipes are health-conscious, and all are tasty. An invaluable resource for anyone who loves good food but is short on time to prepare it.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A hilarious and useful book, October 15, 1998

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Thomas R. Blakeslee "tblakeslee" (Venice, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guerrilla Cooking: The Survival Manual for People Who Don't Like to Cook or Don't Have Time to Cook (Hardcover)

This is a great book for people who used to give dinner parties but stopped because they are too busy. Its comic style is just the thing to get you to relax and enjoy yourself and stop feeling that you have to spend hours to prepare a meal. The recipies are simple and amazingly good.