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Top Secret Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones of America's Favorite Brand-Name Foods (Penguin Viking Plume General Books)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5973
EAN: 9780452269958
ISBN: 0452269954
Label: Plume
Manufacturer: Plume
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: June 01, 1993
Publisher: Plume
Studio: Plume
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Editorial Review:
Todd Wilbur has baked, boiled, digested, fried, and tested--all in the name of duplicating some of America's favorite convenience foods. He now shares 41 of these naughty but nice gastronomical delights in Top Secret Recipes. If you've ever craved a McDonald's Big Mac at 3:00 A.M. on a Sunday morning, then Wilbur has just the recipe for satisfying your junk-food desires. Even better, no cordon-bleu expertise is needed for this particular clone--just simple frying and chopping skills! Simplicity is the key to all of Wilbur's replicated recipes--all are composed of rudimentary ingredients available at any store, needing only minimal preparation. These recipes are fun and fast--two dozen Snickers Bars in less than 10 minutes (plus cooling time), a delicious Orange Julius in less than 60 seconds (that's considerably quicker than waiting in line for the real thing)! These culinary creations are organized in alphabetical order by manufacturer or restaurant, and illustrated with simple pencil drawings. Top Secret Recipes is a chatty and informative guide to recreating the burgers, candy bars, and cookies of your strip-mall dreams. --Naomi Gesinger
Provides the recipes for such industry favorites as Big Macs+so, Reese's+so Peanut Butter Cups+so, Twinkees+so, Ben & Jerry's+so Heath Bar Crunch, and others, allowing readers to recreate such take-out and junk foods at home.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Top Secret Recipes
I had bought this book many years ago for myself and used it regularly. My 20 year old son tried to steal it from me recently with no success of course (lol) so I bought him his own. We all enjoy the recipes in this book so much that I would be lost without it!
Rating:  - Non Fiction
A fun book that looks at how to make your own home made facsimile versions of some famous junk food. At least famous in America, some of them some other people probably will not have heard of. If you want some cooking silliness, this one is definitely for you, or to throw a version of something passable by way of some of those mini-humans.
Rating: - Fun recipies
I've had a lot of fun with some of the recipes in this book. People have asked for the recipies of items I've taken to potlucks and BBQ's. There are a few items that don't quite hit the mark, but overall it's a good cookbook.
Rating:  - Hit and miss oversimplified clone recipes
I bought this book out of intrigue to find out the secret sauce behind famous recipes. While there are a few select recipes where the secret sauce is let out, there are dozens of others where the recipes are plain oversimplifications and superficial replicas. What should be an exciting book is mostly common sense.
The book was frustrating because the clone recipes produced average mimics at best. Detail is replaced by simplicity as most recipes seem embarassingly easy and unrefined, ... Read More
Rating: - AWSOME cookbook!
I love to cook, hope to go to college at the Culinary.
My sis' Laura, got this for me for Christmas.
The book is sooooo cool!
The hint on it was 'no more fast food!!"
LOVE IT!!!
I will let everone have my e-mail; svgypson@yahoo.com
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