The Organized Cook: How to Get it All Together [Bargain Price] [Spiral-bound]

Judy Busch (Author), Carolyn Bucha (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 30, 2002

You've got a shelf full of cookbooks, recipes galore, guests coming to dinner, and no idea what to serve. This book is for you. The Organized Cook is filled with ideas to help you organize your cooking and entertaining life--and keep it that way. This beautifully illustrated book is filled with tips on how to sail through preparing meals for guests with ease and grace. Each chapter includes forms that invite the reader to record who came to dinner and what was served, to keep track of favorite recipes from cookbooks and other sources, to know at any time what's hidden in the back of the freezer and darkest corner of the pantry, to note memorable place settings and imaginative tables, and to plan even more parties. For all of us who want to share our table with family and friends, The Organized Cook is the book that tells us how to get it all together.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 192 pages
• ISBN-10: 0970998724
• ASIN: B0001OOTKC
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,959,486 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Blank book, December 9, 2004

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MarieCW (Maryland) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Organized Cook: How to Get it All Together (Spiral-bound)

This book is not filled with ideas, it is filled with space. It's basically a blank book of lists for you to enter names of party guests and food served, flowers present, even a space to list food in your freezer. How helpful is it to enter a permanent list of the food in your freezer into a book? If such a list is useful to you, write it up in Word and tack a list on the freezer so you can redo it should the contents of your freezer ever change. I was expecting tips and ideas for organizing, this is not that book. This was a waste of money for me.

42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Make an excel spreadsheet instead, February 9, 2005

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This review is from: The Organized Cook: How to Get it All Together (Spiral-bound)

The book is nothing but blank spaces for you to write in what's in your freezer, what you're having for a dinner party, or who you're inviting. What??? I can write that on a blank piece of paper and save myself $16 bucks.
Even better you can make an excel spreadsheet and actually have it mean something. I can't believe a publisher wasted paper on this book, trees were killed for nothing. This is truly a book of blank pages. There are no organizational tips, no party invitation ideas, there is nothing here that would actually help organize a cook.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An organizer that you fill in... not a how to book., October 25, 2008

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This review is from: The Organized Cook: How to Get it All Together (Spiral-bound)

This book has more to do with providing a space for you to put "your" organized work into and then use as a reference point. So rather than go to a cook book for your roast beef recipe, then another for your rice pilaf and then yet again another for your sweet yam pie... you write them all down here. That is not a how to book if you ask me, the title and description gave me the idea that this might be a book with insight into a proper prep kitchen. I was wrong, and even at the discount price I am not pleased. If I had time to write out my planning for a party, recipe or some other event. I would do it in connection with that event. I am sorry I normally do not give one star, but I did not like the marketing aspect of this book, it was a bad trick on poor unorganized cooks.