Joey Green's Mealtime Magic: More Than 250 Offbeat Recipes Using Beloved Brand-Name Products [Hardcover]

Joey Green (Author), a (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 6, 2007

America's brand-name wizard is at it again, this time creating culinary magic in a cookbook packed with fun, fast, unexpectedly delicious recipes and little-known facts all revolving around brand-name pantry favorites

As a magician of brand-name miscellany, Joey Green got Jay Leno to shave with Jif peanut butter on The Tonight Show and gave Meredith Vieira a facial with Elmer's Glue-All on The View. He has been seen polishing furniture with Spam on NBC Dateline and teaching Diane Sawyer how to style her hair with Jell-O. The New York Daily News calls him "a hyperactive, testosterone-charged version of Heloise." People names him the "Pantry Professor."

Now America's favorite creator of wacky uses for brand-name products comes up with his most inspired treat yet: Joey Green's Mealtime Magic, filled with more than 250 clever and delicious dishes made half from scratch using beloved brand-name foods, such as Crunchy Chicken Nuggets (made with Cheerios), Coca-Cola Brisket, and Spice Cake (with Campbell's Tomato Soup). Joey also serves up creative side dishes, including fun facts about America's favorite brand-name foods, and kooky alternative uses for kitchen appliances. Now you, too, can cook dinner in the dishwasher! Joey Green's Mealtime Magic is a fun way to liven up time in the kitchen and surprise friends and family at the table.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The dinner table serves as the latest front in Green's seemingly inexhaustible mission to repurpose common household products (Joey Green's Rainy Day Magic, Incredible Country Store, Gardening Magic, etc.) in this hefty collection of uses for American cupboard staples like Tabasco sauce, 7UP, Cheez Whiz and Cheerios; the results alternate between ingenious and ghastly. Some recipes, such as Pineapple Glazed Pork Chops, which uses a glaze made from Dole crushed pineapple, ginger, cinnamon and apple jelly, are innovative and tasty. Other dishes aren't fit for prisoners: Heinz Ketchup's Love Apple Pie is a stomach-churning mélange of granny smith apples, lemon juice, spices and, yes, a third cup of ketchup; cloying Orangey Rice is flavored with a packet of Tang breakfast drink. Peppered with product trivia, readers will be happy to learn they can use vinegar to clean tarnished pans, but perhaps less thrilled to learn how they can cook shrimp in the dryer. Novelty aside, those looking for reliable ways to use their brand-name products would be better served by traditional recipes.
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About the Author

JOEY GREEN, a former contributing editor to National Lampoon and a former advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson, is the author of more than 30 books that have sold hundreds of thousands of copies combined. His hilarious and ingenious ideas open people's eyes to the potential hiding in every product, providing laughter and learning, and making him a popular guest on such shows as Today, The Tonight Show, and Good Morning America. He lives in Los Angeles.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books (March 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594865817
• ISBN-13: 978-1594865817
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #136,318 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joey Green--author of "Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose," "Paint Your House with Powdered Milk," "Wash Your Hair with Whipped Cream," and "Clean Your Clothes with Cheez Whiz"--got Jay Leno to shave with peanut butter on "The Tonight Show," Rosie O'Donnell to mousse her hair with Jell-O on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," and Katie Couric to drop her diamond engagement ring in a glass of Efferdent on "Today." He has been seen polishing furniture with SPAM on "NBC Dateline," cleaning a toilet with Coca-Cola in "The New York Times," and washing his hair with Reddi-wip in "People."

A former contributing editor to "National Lampoon" and a former advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson, Green is the author of more than forty books, including "Sarah Palin's Secret Diary," "Marx & Lennon: The Parallel Sayings," and "The Zen of Oz: Ten Spiritual Lessons from Over the Rainbow." A native of Miami, Florida, and a graduate of Cornell University, he wrote television commercials for Burger King and Walt Disney World and won a Clio Award for a print ad he created for Eastman Kodak. He backpacked around the world for two years on his honeymoon and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Debbie, and their two daughters, Ashley and Julia.

You can visit him at www.joeygreen.com and www.wackyuses.com

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Processed Food Lovers, March 16, 2007

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This review is from: Joey Green's Mealtime Magic: More Than 250 Offbeat Recipes Using Beloved Brand-Name Products (Hardcover)

Oh is this the book for me!!! Any book that has a chapter just for Dr. Pepper- and another one for Cheez Whiz - or that features a Frito Salad - and has a special section about cooking with a hair dryer is my kind of book!!!

And for those of you who grew up on Processed Food - and loved it - you will LOVE this book too!!!

Jif - Jell-o - Jolly Time - Fluff and French's - if these names ring a bell - are you in for a treat - because Joey Green's new book is more that just MAGIC - it's an ice cream sundae - with 'Whipped Nestle Carnation Nonfat Dry Milk Topping' on top!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not what I ordered, October 7, 2010

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This review is from: Joey Green's Mealtime Magic: More Than 250 Offbeat Recipes Using Beloved Brand-Name Products (Hardcover)

The book promo says 250 recipes but the book I received has only 60?????? No explanation, etc.