Product Description

The Versatile Chicken

Chicken is "the new hamburger." Low in fat and cholesterol, more nutritious and cheaper than ground beef, chicken has become the choice of diet-conscious, budget-conscious and taste-conscious Americans.

Here is a year's worth of succulent recipes celebrating chicken's versatility- baked; fried; barbecued; stewed; marinated; roasted -- you name it -- it's here. Special sections include recipes for "Chicken Lite" (low-calorie) "Chicken Quick," "Chicken Little" (Cornish Game Hens) and many from America's best-known chefs and restaurants.

Whether your tastes run from Buffalo's famous chicken wings to gumbos with a Cajun-kick, or from subtle and simple to smothered and "othered" (marinades and sauces), you will find months of new mouth-watering recipes that will tickle your fancy and tempt your palate.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #111504 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-01
• Released on: 2005-04-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Plastic Comb
• 224 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780060578893
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author

Cheryl Sedaker graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Home Economics. Her lifelong passion for good food and its preparation led her to become a professional home economist for Reynolds Aluminum, for whom she, appears regularly on radio and television to discuss consumer affairs, and food trends and to share new recipes developed by the Reynolds Wrap Kitchens.

She lives, works -- and cooks -- in Riverside, Connecticut.

Customer Reviews

One of the first cookbooks I purchased . . .
. . . and probably the best investment! I've used this book hundreds of times for ideas. While the recipes aren't particularly "fancy," there are a number that are "dinner-party" calibre.

The chapter on "The Well-Traveled Chicken" includes my favorite Coq au Vin recipe. In the "Could Be Veal" chapter, the recipe for "Lemon Chicken Scaloppine with Artichokes" is particularly nice and remarkably easy, and always results in requests for the recipe. There's an entire chapter devoted to the Cornish Game Hen (called "Chicken Little"), with some creative ways to fix these little birds (one of my favorites is Apricot-Glazed Cornish Hens Stuffed with Wild Rice).

I've had very good luck with the entire _365 Ways to Cook ..._ and _365 Easy ... Recipes_ series published by Harper & Row (I think it's Harper Collins now). While many of the recipes are so simple that I find myself wondering "Now, why didn't *I* think of that? ," the fact is, I **didn't** think of it.

If you're looking for *really* good basic fool-proof chicken recipes easily put together by an average cook in an average kitchen, this is definitely the book for you.

Dear Cheryl
My copy of this book is signed by you. I bought it at a party given by Susan F. in Riverside, CT before it was shipped to bookstores at one of those girl group dinners. You were pinning your fortune on it. Now, all these years later, I'm buying 10 copies to give to my immediate family members for the holidays. It is the most tatered, stained, smeared and well-used cookbook I have. I hope that it has brought you all the rewards you were hoping for, and I must say, I have never had a bad result using any recipe in it, although my cooking skills are not my strength. Thank you for many years of good eating. Janice Lee in Cleveland Ohio

Great for beginners!
I bought this book when I got my first apartment in the 1980's. I was just out of grad school, and had no idea how to cook anything, much less chicken. For the next 2 years or so, whenever I had friends over (which was often), I cooked almost exclusively from this book, and got the reputation as the best cook around. Although my cooking abilities and tastes have expanded since then, I still look at this cookbook as a must for beginning cooks. The recipes are easy to follow, and organized by cooking method (ie., bake, fry, etc.) The instructions are very clear, the recipes are uncomplicated and use ingredients that are easy to find, yet are very tasty. Even now, while I don't follow the recipes exaclty anymore, the book is a good source of ideas.