Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America

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Summary: A delectable literary flambe!
Review: This book is a must-buy for anyone interested in food. It's informative and hilarious, unless some books, which are just informative, and others, which are just hilarious. This one here, it's both! And the author is a babe!

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Summary: Cookoff:recipe fever in America
Review: What a fun, enlightening book! Amy has written this with a fun style that entertains as well as enlightens. I have learned a lot about a hobby I have enjoyed for years.

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Summary: Highly Entertained
Review: What a marvelous mix of entertainment and information on an issue I knew nothing about! Sutherland's journalistic approach takes amazing and colorful twists and turns as it lays out the inner-workings of the cookoff circuit where the players range from highly entertaining to overly competitive and crabby. I found myself dying to meet the queen of the cookoff, Diane Sparrow and wanting to cry over Cindy Shmuelling's bittersweet story. If you are interested in what makes people tick, this book is for you. As with all books worth their salt, I relished each new chapter and felt sad when it was over!

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Summary: A Second Helping Please
Review: What fun. This book not only examines a slice of Americana, but portrays the compelling everyday people that make this country as goofy and lovable as it is. You don't need to be a foodie to enjoy this book, just a lover of a good book. Sutherland deserves a blue ribbon.

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Summary: A GREAT READ AND A REAL HOOT
Review: Who knew! Leave it to Americans to making cooking a sport, one where the freshness of a garnish can make the difference between winnng the big bucks or not. Sutherland is an apt guide of this world of competitive cooks with all their quirks. This book is not just for foodies, but for anyone the least bit interested in American pop culture. The cooks are vivid and compelling. The food ingenious to appalling. Part travelogue, food history and culinary who-dunnit, Cookoff is a winner.