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Review: Dish: Truth Without the Trimmings
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Dish:
Truth Without the Trimmings By Diane Muldrow ISBN: 0448428717 Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap Publication date: May 2002 Format: Paperback List price: $4.99 (Canada, UK) | ||||
| Type: Children's storybook/cookbook | |||||
| Sample recipe: Sour Cream Coffee Cake | |||||
| Ambitions | |||||
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| intended audience: | novice | advanced beginner | good home cook | gourmet | professional |
| apparent goal: | stocking stuffer | sampler | coffee-table | comprehensive | biblical stature |
| competition: | outclassed | also-ran | midrange | strong challenger | leads the pack |
| Content | |||||
| # of recipes: | <50 | <100 | <200 | <300 | >300 |
| practical recipes: | <20% | <40% | <60% | <80% | >80% |
| # of ingredients: | <3 | <6 | <9 | <12 | >12 |
| ingredient hunt: | 7-11 | pantry | supermarket | online | airfare required |
| recipe complexity: | baby steps | simple | medium | intense | professional |
| instructions: | inadequate | bare bones | full figured | educational | verbose |
| time conscious: | outright lies | speed of light | fairly quick | takes time | takes all day |
| photos/drawings: | skimpy | decorative | generous | instructive | glorious |
| recipe results: | dorm food | casual food | family meals | fancy food | fit for royalty |
| flavor quotient: | disappointing | fair | good | delicious | exceptional |
| Format | |||||
| layout: | ick | cluttered | clean | a pleasure | work of art |
| legibility: | microscopic | challenging | adequate | clear | brilliant |
| production quality: | cheesy | questionable | average | years of service | gift-quality |
| value: | ouch! | a little pricey | worth splurging | on the money | excellent |
| Ease of Use | |||||
| page numbers: | invisible | hard to find | spotty | adequate | obvious |
| table of contents: | missing | pointless | frustrating | fine | helpful |
| index quality: | none | tragic | adequate | good | excellent |
| page flipping: | infuriating | tedious | acceptable | rare | never |
| Author | |||||
| writer: | hack | committee | cook turned writer | writer turned cook | celebrity/auteur |
| cooking heritage: | unknown | self-taught | non-restaurant | chef | celebrity |
| Summary | |||||
| overall rating: | fair | good | above average | excellent | Ochef Top 100 |
Comments: Shawn Jordan, Peichi Cheng, and Molly and Amanda Moore are four 11-year old girls who take cooking classes and love to cook. They cook "relief food" for neighbors, who had a fire in their kitchen and, after seeing how much fun it is, form a cooking club. Their club turns into a business called Dish and takes off all on its own. Suddenly, the girls can hardly keep up with their customers! After school starts and the Chef Girls become involved in different things, they don't have much time for Dish. The fifth book, |
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