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Cheap and Easy Cooking: The Survival Guide for College Students (Paperback)

by Joe S. Dobrowolski (Illustrator)
Key Phrases: teriyaki sauce, San Francisco

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"...Cheap and Easy Cooking is full of food combinations I had not thought of. It is definitely hip!" -- Perrin Williams, Pastry Chef

"This cookbook fits the mark for students with no time or money." -- Cookbooks on Review, The Sunday Post, Aug. 10, 1997

This cookbook fits the mark for students with no time or money. -- Cookbooks on Review, The Sunday Post, Aug. 10, 1997

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Are you new to apartment living, or a student fresh out of the dorms; or are you just sick of spending your money on unhealthy fast food? Then here is your guide to cooking. Designed and written by a recent college graduate. This cookbook is packed with practical, down-to-earth, easy to use information and advice for you. You will learn basic cooking know-how, get some shopping tips as you learn how to easily prepare low-cost, but tasty meals. This outstanding guide to food and the kitchen is helping people all over make cheap and easy meals, while learning how to cook-right now. It's the feel good cookbook of the nineties!

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Paperback: 52 pages
Publisher: SKI Publishing Co.; Rev edition (September 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0965461203
ISBN-13: 978-0965461207
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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1.0 out of 5 stars I wish I could choose "0 stars"!, August 30, 2002

By	Stephanie - Junior at the University of Texas (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews

If this book would be helpful to you, THAN YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING IN COLLEGE!!! This "book" was an absolute joke. For starters, it is no bigger than a pamphlet; it is thinner than your average magazine (and far less wide and long also) and on top of that, it apparently wasn't edited b/c it is full of typos. Here is a quote from the FIRST sentance of the introducion, "I decided to write this cookbook because I couldn't get job after college.... Just kidding." I don't think that he is kidding since most jobs require elementary knowledge of the English language and here we say we couldn't "GET A JOB" not we couldn't "GET JOB". The "book" is full of these very obvious mistakes. I don't claim to be a world-class writer myself, but I would at least get someone to proofread a book I wanted published! The worst part though is easily the recipies. When I read the first recipe, I thought that the author was just trying to be funny; the instructions were to pour cereal and milk into a bowl! Unfortunately though, this was not a joke, and the majority of the "recipes" to follow were just as ridiculous. I am as clueless as the next college student when it comes to cooking, but for the love of God, I've known how to make things like "Waffles the Easy Way" since I was 7 - this consists of buying frozen waffles, toasting them, and then putting butter and syrup on them. "French Toast the Easy Way" is the same exact recipe, however, you will need to substitute frozen french toast for frozen waffles. Or, how about "Cream Cheese Bagel" which consists of slicing a bagel in half and then SPREADING CREAM CHEESE ON IT?!? Then there is the recipe simply titled "Bacon" which expalins the complicated process of cooking bacon in the microwave on a paper towl for those of us college students who can't read the instuctions on the bacon packaging! GIVE ME A BREAK! There are even "recipies" for how to make sandwiches that consist of ONE ingredient, for example, "Tuna Sanwich". This recipe has ONE step, I quote "1. Spread the tuna on the bread". If you don't know how to get tuna onto bread, you don't need this cookbook, you need to go back to kindergarden. Ever wonder how to make mac and cheese from the box you buy in the store? Well, here are your options, buy a box and read the side of it, or waste your money on this book, buy the box and then read THE EXACT SAME INSTRUCTIONS (including buying the box of coures). Unless you are sending a 4 year old off to college, don't waste your money on this insulting "cook book". I mean, look, you've already managed to surf the internet and locate a book and read the reviews, surely you can manage to make a "Micro-Melt Quesadilla" (3 slices of cheese heated in the microwave on a tortialla) without the help of this book. Some books that I DID find helpful, never ever having actually cooked before, were Desperation Dinners, Better Than Take-Out (& Faster, Too), and The (Reluctant, Nervous, Lazy, Broke, Busy, Confused) College Student's Cookbook. The recipies in these books are quick, easy, and delicious and they actually won't insult your intelligence. I would recommend The (Reluctant, Nervous, Lazy, Broke, Busy, Confused) College Student's Cookbook if you really need the fundamentals (such as how much is a teaspoon/tablespoon/cup) but Desperation Dinners had the most recipies and a really good variety - they are almost fool proof too and they all take 20 min. or less to prepare! With these cookbooks, I've found myself eating less fastfood and more dishes such as Italian-style Hamburger Steaks with Garlic Cheese drop biscuits. My third attempt to cook was for my mom when she came to visit and now she keeps hounding me for my recipies! I encourage you to try and learn how to cook for yourself, it adds some variety to the standard dorm food and/or fast food diet and it can be fun and rewarding, but please, don't waste your time and money on this pamphlet - college students have better things to waste their time and money on ;-) !!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cheap and Easy Cooking is all that and more, March 11, 2004

By	Pat Stimson (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

I got lots of graduation gifts. The cash went fast but I still have this book. This book has been an easy and useful guide. It demystified cooking for me in a humorous way. It's a great starter book for anyone who has not cooked until they were forced to live on their own or with roommates who are in the same boat. It is what it is, a fun quick jump-start to cooking for the neophytes like myself.

- Sophomore, Northeastern

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5.0 out of 5 stars My neighbor's kid used it and found it to be very valuable, October 27, 2003

By	J. Dobrowolski (San Francisco, CA, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this for my neighbor's kid when she graduated from high school. After her first year in college, she stopped by and thanked me. She told me it was a great way to get started, since she had never really done much cooking when she was growing up. Rather than fast food or top ramen every night, she had a reference with lots of new ideas. She and her roommates kept it in the kitchen the whole year. Maybe she was being nice, but she sounded sincere about the value of this book.

-D

PS I am not sure what type of personal issues the previous reviewers has (all of that yelling!) Maybe she couldn't get into college, hence the grammatical errors ("then", not "than") and typos in her review. She also says this book is like a pamphlet, but it's 48 pages, that's a pretty thick pamphlet.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great gift for a college student
I gave this book to my children at college. They loved it. Easy to read, with really easy recipes. Even my dorky son could use it. My daughters roomates also used it. Read more

Published on June 1, 2002 by joe henry

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy recipes, simple cooking, good humor
I actually read this book after college when I was still on a budget. The recipes are basic, the ingredients are cheap and they taste great. Read more

Published on October 16, 2001 by Christine Dobrowolski, DPM

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Published on October 4, 2000 by Donna

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