Top Secret Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones of America's Favorite Brand-Name Foods: A Cookbook
By (Author) Todd Wilbur
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Paperbacks
1st June 1993
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
641.5973
144
Width 127mm, Height 203mm, Spine 10mm
142g
#1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series with more than 4 million books sold! Have you ever wanted to make a McDonald's Big Mac What about aHostess Twinkie This irresistible collection of cloned recipes is the product of years of obsessive research by self-confessed junk-food addict Todd Wilbur-and now you can make them, too! Big food manufacturers guard their recipes like the gold in Fort Knox, but Wilbur's dogged pursuit of taste-alike versions of his-and our-all-time favorites has paid off in this unique cookbook of 50 scrumptious treats. Whether you're a kid or just a kid at heart, you'll have a great time using these step-by-steprecipes to make the incredible clones of a Burger King Whopper , KFC Original Recipe Fried Chicken, a Yoo Hoo Chocolate Drink, and so many other famous guilty pleasure foods.
Praise forTodd Wilbur's#1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series
[Wilburs] problem isn't that the recipes hes devised arent good enough, its that theyre too good.Entertainment Weekly
There is something magically compelling about the idea of making such foods at home...The allure is undeniable, and [the books are] stuffed with tidbits and lore youre unlikely to find anywhere else. These probably come as close as you can get to the original recipes.Boston Herald
This is the cookbook to satisfy all your cravings.Juli Huss, author ofThe Faux Gourmet
The recipes are easy to follow and... by preparing your own versions of restaurant meals you will almost always save money.Arizona Daily Star
[Wilburs] recipes use everyday supermarket ingredients to bring brand-name foods to the home kitchen. Perhaps not surprisingly, his recipes are not complex. If anything, they reflect how easy home cooking can be.Star Tribune(MinneapolisSt. Paul)
The assignment: Find out how to make the tasty Jack Daniels Grill Sauce used by T.G.I. Fridays restaurants. The client: Oprah Winfrey. The gumshoe: Todd Wilbur. Mission Impossible for even the most savvy food expert. But not so for Todd Wilbur, a crackerjack culinary sleuth.Pocono Record
Many of [Wilburs] dishy imitations come, like a box of Cracker Jacks, with a surprise inside.Mademoiselle
For more than 25 years,Todd Wilburhas been reverse-engineering America's most iconic foods for his series of 11Top Secret Recipescookbooks. With over 5 million books in print, the self-proclaimed "food hacker" has appeared in over 100 media outlets includingThe New York Times,People Magazine,Newsweek,The Daily News,Entertainment Weekly,The Oprah Winfrey Show,The Today Show,Good Morning America,Fox & Friends,The Dr. Oz Show, andThe Food Network. His website www.TopSecretRecipes.com is the #1 copycat recipes website with 1 million visitors every month. He lives with his family in Las Vegas, NV.