The Common Grill Cookbook

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Summary: Too Pretty to Take in the Kitchen
Review: Sleeping Bear Publishing makes great looking books and the Common Grill Cookbook is no exception. It's so pretty I needed to buy a second book--one for the coffee table and one for the kitchen. The recipes are easy to follow and result in fabulous food. The only thing better is eating in the restaurant because then you don't need to clean up.

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Summary: Homemade pizza dough recipe lacking accurate flour measure.
Review: The cookbook overall is filled with mouth-watering recipes and easy to follow directions and layout.
Major disappointment came, however, in the homemade pizza dough recipe (page 141)... Seems to be a "typo" in the flour quantity. The recipe requires one cup of flour, but with 2/3 cup warm water doesn't seem to be accurate. When preparing this recipe I had to trial-and-error the quantity of flour myself.
This recipe was very important to me, for pizzas, but also for bread when shaped into a short loaf, the one I tried to prepare first, and one which didn't quite turn out, hence my disappointment.
The apple chutney, on the other hand, was quite a success.

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Summary: Move over, Emeril!
Review: This book was given to me as a Christmas gift and I couldn't have been more pleased. The simple but elegant layout, the photography, and the homey comments make this more than a cookbook; it's lovely enough for a coffee table book! The recipes are not complicated and the items needed to complete a dish are for the most part already in any kitchen. No need to shop for additional exotic spices. This is a cookbook I'll surely use again and again. Congratulations to Chef Craig and his Common parents. They can be proud of their son.

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Summary: Move over, Emeril!
Review: This book was given to me as a Christmas gift and I couldn't have been more pleased. The simple but elegant layout, the photography, and the homey comments make this more than a cookbook; it's lovely enough for a coffee table book! The recipes are not complicated and the items needed to complete a dish are for the most part already in any kitchen. No need to shop for additional exotic spices. This is a cookbook I'll surely use again and again. Congratulations to Chef Craig and his Common parents. They can be proud of their son.

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Summary: wonderful !!
Review: this cookbook is great. there are quite a variety of recipes in this cookbook, from brunch to dinner and let's not forget about dessert. i recommend anyone who loves to cook to buy this book. this chef has a resturant in chelsea michigan, it is our favorite place to go for dinner, we drive an hour each week to have lunch or dinner there. the atmosphere is great there.

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Summary: Too complicated for the mid-level cook.
Review: While the pictures are pretty, anyone who's cooking experience is less than chef level will find these recipes a bit ridiculous. If you like the food, go to the restaurant. The incredibly loud atmosphere will be less of an annoyance if you must have this overrated, lackluster and overpriced food.