More Top Secret Recipes: More Fabulous Kitchen Clones of America's Favorite Brand-Name Foods

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Summary: Buyer beware...
Review: Don't get me wrong: Todd Wilbur's cookbooks are fun with a capital "F", but if you expect to re-create fast foods and chain-restaurant favorites in your own kitchen using his books, you're in for a nasty surprise. Unless, of course, you already possess a fair amount of kitchen common sense. For example, if you try to fry his "Dunkin Donuts" at the recommended temperature of 350 degrees, you WILL end up with pumpernickel bread in less than 2 minutes (try 280 degrees, instead). Should you follow his recipe for the Olive Garden's Soupa Toscana, what you end up with is a muddy kale & potato mess after 2 hours of boiling, with separated cream on top (contrary to his recipe, simmer for just 30 minutes instead of 2 hours, and add the cream at the end instead of the beginning. Also, use half of his recommended amount of red pepper flakes). If you add the 2 cups of water that's called for in his recipe for Wendy's Chili, what you will get is a thin tomato & bean soup, not chili; skip the water, and the chili comes out very good. Enlist the services of a psychic if you try to make Hostess Twinkies, because his list of ingredients at the beginning of the recipe is different from what he describes in the actual recipe itself. I don't regret buying his books, but keep in mind that just as Todd Wilbur had to play detective in "breaking" these recipes, so will the reader who tries to reproduce them, because they serve as loose guidelines at very best. You will have to do some gumshoe work as well, if you expect these recipes to work. But hey, at least he gives us somewhere to start. And it is fun! Oh yeah, the Oreo cookies are pretty close to the real thing, by the way.

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Summary: Worth it for the Cinnabon recipe alone
Review: easy to read and understand recipes. I wish there would have been more food establishments recipes oposed to candy, etc.

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Summary: Obviously a lot of time given to come up with the recipes
Review: easy to read and understand recipes. I wish there would have been more food establishments recipes oposed to candy, etc.

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Summary: Great choices, but still looking for more!
Review: Every recipe was great--The family really enjoyed the Shoney's Slow-Cooked Pot Roast. Now if anyone could help me find a recipe for Outback's Queensland Chicken and Shrimp, I would be forever grateful. I can't figure out the secret to the fettuccini noodles---oily, not creamy----

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Summary: Yum!
Review: Have made several of his recipes, mostly the sweet ones. They are fun and the recipients are amazed.

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Summary: Yum!
Review: Have made several of his recipes, mostly the sweet ones. They are fun and the recipients are amazed.

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Summary: First one was better
Review: I guess it came down to why would I make Oreo cookies when I can buy the real thing? The choices in this book were very basic and not recipes for meals as the first one was. I would not recommend buying it at all.

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Summary: First one was better
Review: I guess it came down to why would I make Oreo cookies when I can buy the real thing? The choices in this book were very basic and not recipes for meals as the first one was. I would not recommend buying it at all.

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Summary: It's worth your time and $!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I have tried a # of recipies from all of his books, and let me tell you they are great! It is worth the $8 and so much more. I hope that you buy it because you won't be disapointed, the best part is that he gives great directions filled with pictures, for those simple, know nothing cooks, like me. Try it you'll love it.

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Summary: Great recipe book
Review: I live out of town where they don't deliver pizza, and I have made the Pizza Hut Stuffed Pizza many times with great results....sometimes it tastes better than the original! After having success with this cookbook, I ordered all the rest of his books, and have tried many of his clones with delight! I am waiting for another cookbook with bated breath.