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Tough Guys Don't Dice: A Cookbook for Men Who Can't Cook Hardcover – July, 1989

by James A. Thorson (Author)

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Attention, men! You guys probably have a low opinion of the kitchen. Maybe it's the worst room in the house - all that space and no comfortable chair. The beer shelf is cluttered with vegetables, and you don't know where to find the popcorn bowl. When you were home alone for three weeks, the refrigerator began to smell worse than your gym locker. That was it for you and the kitchen. But you have to admit your house is a happier place when it smells like good food, like when the woman in your life is baking bread. Let's face it, you love eating. shouldn't you stop trying to figure out the VCR and plug in the can opener? Stop tuning the engine and start manhandling hamburger meat? This book is for all you kitchen-shy guys who've gotten away with murder. Let's be honest now, you don't even know how to cook. Your mother probably didn't teach you any of the ground rules. You'll have to learn by doing, and you'll be surprised how easy it is to eat well without working very hard. Cooking will score you big points. Tough Guys Don't Dice is the story behind survival: breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and the four food groups. This isn't your regular cookbook, where they assume you know how to separate egg yolks from whites. If focuses on the basics: how to fend for yourself when you're stood up in the kitchen four nights running. Wouldn't you rather read this book than call your mother?

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"Gone are the days when Daddy in the kitchen evoked a cutesy image of the inept American male . . . making a royal mess as he tried to boil water," insists Thorson. "My wife and I split up the work around the house some years back," and much of the cooking fell to him. Now a seasoned amateur, this University of Nebraska professor of gerontology, and wisecracking good old boy, has written not "your regular cookbook, where they assume you know how to separate egg yolks from the whites." Instead, "We'll focus on how to cook, and I'll throw in some tricks I've picked up over the years." Readers will not find myriad elegant recipes. The book is divided into five simple chapters: breakfast ("You already know how to make the toast," he quips); lunch; "little stuff" like deviled eggs; dinner (Rice-a-Roni and Minute Rice are championed); and dessert ("Remember Bisquick?"). A gung ho kitchen minimalist, at times clodhopping and more than a little gross ("all of the old ladies in our church kept a spare copy of funeral casserole in the freezer, ready to pounce if someone died"), Thorson makes primitive cookery sound like fun.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 188 pages
Publisher: William Morrow & Co; 1st edition (July 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0688082203
ISBN-13: 978-0688082208
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,234,117 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #674 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Cooking Methods > Cooking for One or Two

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A great first cookbook for anyone who can't cook !

ByAmazon Customeron February 28, 2002

Format: Hardcover

I first bought this book when I was 28 years old, and hadn't a clue about cooking. If you don't know how to cook, this book will take you by the hand step by step all the while telling a funny stories about his aunt gertie and the Mole. to this day I get compliments on a lasagna which I got from this cookbook, people tell me its the best they've ever tasted. I remember back in 1989 when I first bought it, thinking I hope I learn something? this cookbook gave me the confidence to keep on cooking. It is not like any other cookbook, most of which expect you to know cooking terms like "sweat the carrots or render this or separate that" Once you finish going through this cookbook you will be ready to tackle the other more intimidating cookbooks out there. a mighty fine book.

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Essential guide for the Non-cook

ByRDtooVINE VOICEon November 27, 2003

Format: Hardcover

This is the book to get if you are like me, and have trouble boiling an egg. Thorson really knows his stuff and shares his secrets for making easy dishes that men crave. Starting relatively simple and moving on to more complex dinners, Thorson keeps you entertained with anecdotes all the way. Forget all those "Men's cookbooks" put out by Men's magazines. This is the one to get.

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A Must-Have !!!

ByIrison June 8, 2011