Finger Food (Le Cordon Bleu) (Hardcover)

~ Le Cordon Bleu (Author) "1 Cut the salmon slices into 2- x 11/4-inch rectangles..." (more)
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"A series that has gone to great lengths to keep ingredients and techniques required within the reach of anyone." -- Orlando Sentinel

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Periplus Editions (April 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9625934448
• ISBN-13: 978-9625934440
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #706,662 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Cordon Bleu should be ashamed to put their name on this!, August 12, 1999

By A Customer

Mundane recipes with little preparation information, but terrific photos. Buy it if you only like to look at food. Inexperienced cooks will be confused by the lack of preparation instructions. Serious cooks will find this book dull.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Adequate tastes, adequate recipes, October 14, 2001

By	Scott R (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

I borrowed this book for a dinner party, and while I won't buy my own, there are a few recipes I'd make again -- a suitable description of my overall happiness with it.

Good things: the recipes are accessible to novice cooks (like me), minor errors and amateurish skills are (mostly) ok, and we were able to pull off all of the recipes we tried.

Bad things: there are a lot of gotchas, like assumptions about tools that novice cooks may not have; the portion measurements were regularly off (every dish we made didn't come out to the right amount -- too many, too few...); the ratings of easy to hard seem way off.

Overall, some hits (pronto puff pizzas, salmon/trout roulade) and some misses (cheese-filled mushrooms) with the crowd, and I wouldn't rush to make any of them again.

5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice, October 27, 2009

By	Vera Lucia White - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Not such a large number of recipes, but all of them are good and the results were exactly what I expected them to be!