Supermarket Confidential: The Secrets of One-Stop Shopping for Delicious Meals [Paperback]

Joanna Pruess (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2004

Cook delicious meals from ingredients found in your local market and learn how to choose and keep those ingredients fresh with this unique cookbook.

Editorial Reviews

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"A huge, one-of-a-kind book. Joanna Pruess meets us in the market, teaches us how to buy, what not to buy; she comes home with us to continue teaching how to handle, prepare, and cook hundreds of recipes to appeal to any palate."
-- Marion Cunningham

"Completely practical and yet full of fine fancies."
-- M. F. K. Fisher

"Knowing how to buy, store, and use the fresh ingredients available in the supermarket will contribute more than anything else toward the development of an American cuisine and the cuisine of tomorrow."
-- Jacques Pépin

From the Back Cover

With an economy and climate that have brought the idea of cooking and home entertaining back into fashion, and with kitchens that have morphed into all-purpose rooms, shoppers want to stay at home and share comforting, delicious meals with family and friends—without spending hours searching out fussy ingredients. Joanna Pruess offers the essential guide to doing just that, with indispensable information about how to buy, store, and cook outstanding meals using ingredients found in today’s supermarket aisles, and more than 300 tried-and-trusted recipes. She includes recipes using prepared ingredients and a minimal number of ingredients, techniques for preparing meals ahead of time, and strategies for successful grocery shopping in the twenty-first century.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Lyons Press (November 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592285627
• ISBN-13: 978-1592285624
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 8.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,863,955 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The opposite of the Nobu cookbook, January 3, 2007

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This review is from: Supermarket Confidential: The Secrets of One-Stop Shopping for Delicious Meals (Paperback)

I own the attractive Nobu cookbook but I can't make the recipes that require expensive ingredients. Supermarket Confidential is actually a cookbook and of course, the ingredients are commonly available in a typical supermarket. I would never have thought to buy this book if it wasn't on special for $2.99.