Fix-It and Enjoy-It! Cookbook Hardcover , $24.95; Comb-Bound Paperback , $18.95
Type: General; Quick
Sample recipe: Amish Onion Pie
Ambitions
Intended
audience:
novice advanced
beginner good
home cook gourmet professional
Apparent
goal:
stocking
stuffer sampler comprehensive coffee-table Biblical stature
Competition:
outclassed follower in the pack strong challenger likely champ
Content
Variety:
too little too much unusual nice mix just right
# of recipes:
<50 <100 <200 <300 ≥300
Practical recipes:
<20% <40% <60% <80% ≥80%
#
of ingredients:
≤4 ≤7 ≤10 ≤12 >12
Ingredient
hunt:
7-Eleven airfare required online pantry supermarket
Recipe complexity:
too hard simple medium challenging professional
Instructions:
inadequate verbose bare-bones full-figured educational
Time conscious:
unconscious outright lies white lies realistic honorable
Cooking time:
weekend project takes all day takes time ≥30 minutes <30 minutes
Added info:
zip overwhelming scant balanced generous
Photos/drawings:
none distracting decorative instructive glorious
Recipe results:
≤dorm food casual food family meals fancy food fit for royalty
Diet/Nutrition/Health
Nutritional info:
none overwhelming hit or miss adequate comprehensive
Tone:
food police intense neutral supportive comforting
Result:
guilt-inducing
heavy-handed balanced encouraging inspiring
Format/Ease of Use
Layout:
ugh cluttered fine considerate work of art
Legibility:
unpleasant challenging tolerable clear brilliant
Production
quality:
cheesy OK years of service gift quality stunning
Page numbers:
non-existent hard-to-find spotty sufficient every page
Table
of contents:
AWOL frustrating passable useful excellent
Index quality:
none tragic adequate good a treasure
Page flipping:
upsetting tedious acceptable rare never
Author
Writer:
beginner food writer writing cook personality auteur
Cook:
unknown self-taught chef teacher celebrity
Summary
Fulfills ambitions:
falls short almost there satisfactory exceeds home run
Flavor delivered:
sad inconsistent tasty delicious exceptional
Overall tone:
sterile trying too hard straightforward best friend mom
Value:
ouch! a little pricey worth splurging on the money a deal
Overall rating:
skip it good very good excellent Ochef Top 100
Comments: Essentially a community cookbook, with many of its 675 recipes contributed by folks from across the country. The strength is in the variety and general simplicity of the recipes.
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