The Working Stiff Cookbook: Great Food! Easy Recipes! - Softcover

Sloan, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811818853 ISBN 13: 9780811818858

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 1998

Synopsis

It's 8 pm and you just got home from work. What's for dinner? Perhaps a delicious bowl of cold cereal awaits. Or maybe you could order Chinese food -- for the third time this week. Who wants to slave over a hot stove after slaving for a wage all day? No matter how late you work or how fast you eat, Bob Sloan has a recipe for you. Quicker than you can change the toner in the fax machine, you can make a Fast and Furious Stir-Fry. If the thought of washing dishes makes your eyes glaze over, whip up a one-pot meal like Paella Rapido. Need lunch for tomorrow? A Lazy Man's Lasagna makes for plenty of leftovers. The Working Stiff Cookbook has colorful tabs for fast flipping, a spiral binding for easy viewing, and laminated pages for no-fuss cleanup. A smart addition to any kitchen, this is the one cookbook that will earn its keep in painless and delicious weekday meals.

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Review:

With The Working Stiff Cookbook, Bob Sloan has written a smart, effective, useful little cookbook. He probably has in mind a reader with a small kitchen and limited counter space. But the book works just as well for the reader with a grand kitchen and enough counter space to make room for every kitchen gizmo imaginable. Sloan's bottom line is more about time than anything else. If you are a working stiff, you probably assume that you don't have the time or requisite cooking skills to produce stylish, flavorful, and nutritious meals for you and your loved ones. Yet Sloan will show you how. He demonstrates that with a willingness to learn as you grow, you too can put Thai-Style Flounder with Coconut Rice on the table in about 30 hassle-free minutes. Next you'll be whipping up Chicken Breasts with Artichokes and Mushrooms, or perhaps Singular Meat Loaves with Garlic Mashed Potatoes.

Sloan divides his book into chapters that address technique and appropriate tools. Here are "One Pot" recipes (Sicilian Vegetable Stew, Chicken Curry in a Hurry), pasta (Thai Vegetable Noodles, Fettuccini with Smoked Salmon), and soups, salads, and sandwiches.

This is a breezy, easy-going book. It's spiral-bound to open flat and stay there and not make you crazy while you're trying to cook. New cooks can't lose, and well-schooled cooks may well want to take note. Bob Sloan believes that pancakes for dinner is a perfectly legitimate dish, and that alone deserves the price of admission. --Schuyler Ingle

About the Author:

Bob Sloan is the author of The Working Stiff Cookbook (0-8118-1885-3). His humor pieces and fiction have appeared in Playboy and Print. He lives in New York City.

Michael Klein is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared in countless publications and several books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0811818853
• ISBN 13: 9780811818858
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 144
• Illustrator: Klein Michael