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Cooking Outside the Pizza Box: Easy Recipes for Today's College Student Paperback – January 1, 2004

by Jean Patterson (Author), Danae Campbell (Author)

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College kids living on their own for the first time are startled to realize that now they have to cook for themselves. This attractive spiral-bound book is exactly what they need, serving up easy recipes and basic cooking methods for beginners. The resulting meals are nutritious and appetizing, more healthful and less expensive than relying on the local pizza parlor or Burger King every time hunger pangs strike. Practical advice and helpful tips instruct busy college kids on everything from food and equipment shopping and sharing a kitchen to scrambling an egg and preparing a complete, well-balanced meal. Recipes are divided into these general categories:

Munchies * Breakfast * Main Courses * Pasta and Rice * Soups * Veggies and Salads * Desserts *

Munchies include a great array of snacks and finger foods, from garlicky humus to pizza-flavored popcorn. Breakfast recipes include egg dishes, French toast, pancakes, and others. Main courses range from simple grilled sandwiches to more ambitious entrees like roasted chicken with lemon and herbs. Vegetarian dishes include tasty Portobello mushrooms with garlic mayonnaise, pan-fried Asian dumplings with dipping sauce, couscous and veggie salad, and many others. Among the dessert recipes are instructions for making brownies, cookies, chocolate cake, apple crisp, and a remarkably easy pumpkin pie. Recipes come with a special trouble-shooting and mistake-avoiding feature called Don't Let This Happen to You. Attractive line illustrations and a handy index help make this book a godsend for hungry college kids. Makes a good high school graduation gift!

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160 pages
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English
Publisher

B E S Pub Co
Publication date

January 1, 2004
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7.25 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches
ISBN-10

0764124951
ISBN-13

978-0764124952
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Your moment of truth has arrived! You’re in college and on your own, you’re feeling those familiar hunger pangs—and Mom isn’t around to make breakfast... or lunch... or dinner.

Don’t despair. This very special cookbook has the answer to all your food problems. It’s filled with basic cooking methods and recipes for meals, snacks, and munchies that taste great, are nutritious—and best of all, are quick and easy to prepare! The recipes fall into these general categories:

* Munchies * Breakfast * Main Courses * Pasta and Rice

* Soups * Veggies and Salads * Desserts

You’ll also find a trouble-shooting and mistake-avoiding feature with most recipes. It’s called Don’t Let This Happen to You. What happen is plenty of good eating with recipes and food ideas that are guaranteed to please!

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ B E S Pub Co (January 1, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0764124951
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0764124952
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches

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Jean Patterson is a Pasadena, California-based freelance writer and editor whose articles and recipes have appeared in Bon Appetit, Cooking Light, Sunset, Vegetarian Times, and the Los Angeles Times. She is the co-author of Cooking Outside the Pizza Box: Easy Recipes for Today's College Student.

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AlexReed

thank you

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2020

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A super awesome book, well rounded book for people learning how to cook.

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Great for People New to Cooking

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2007

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I originally bought this book for myself, and found it to be too introductory for me, so I gave it to my brother, who despite being older than me still calls me to ask things like how you mash a potato. The recipes are very easy to read, making no assumptions about previous knowledge, and they utilize store-bought pre-prepared ingredients (the author is especially fond of frozen potsticker dumplings) in a way that is helpful to college students, although I thought occasionally the scratch alternative would have been no more difficult and probably cheaper and better tasting.

What I love best about the book is the way it is organized. Recipes that require no cooking or are microwave-only are marked with big icons on the page, and while the recipes are organized by meal or food type, like most books, the book also contains multiple tables of contents that group the recipes differently--vegetarian, microwavable, appropriate for a date, seasonally, etc.--and even has one set of listings that put together recipes for a complete meal. While not particularly elaborate (as most of the recipes are pretty simple anyway) I love this feature, because matching flavors can be particularly difficult for a new cook, and for any cook a recipe book can be unhelpful in planning a meal if you don't kind of already know what you want.

The first section of the book is also really good for first-timers because it goes over the basics of setting up, cleaning, and sharing a kitchen. It provides lists of basic equipment and the basic ingredients you should always have on hand, and this list is in general pretty sensitive to the limitations of dorm sizes and mini-fridges. It even gives cleaning instructions for some of the less obvious cleaning challenges in the kitchen. I thought the list of things to discuss and agree on with roommates regarding kitchen use was particularly helpful. Lastly, the book itself is well-designed, being spiral-bound rather than a traditional paperback, so that it lays flat easily while staying open to the same page hands-free. This seems like a silly note, but I have a lot of cookbooks, some with a similar target market as this one, and I've had to waste a lot of time copying recipes down onto other paper or recipe cards just because I needed both hands and the book kept closing itself or flipping to another page.

In summary, a great book for someone who doesn't know anything about cooking. Would make a great high school graduation gift perhaps made more interesting by pairing it with some of the basic kitchen tool necessities listed in the first few chapters of the book.

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K. Robertson

Wide variety of real cooking, easy to make recipes

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2009

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This book has a wide variety of different types of dishes (Asian, Italian, Indian, and of course American), that are all within reach of the beginning cook.

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Teresa Patterson

New to the kitchen

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2005

As Jean Patterson's sister, I was the target audience for this book. Since I was a college student with little to no experience in the kitchen, I needed help. Scrambled eggs were a nightmare, and macaroni and cheese from the box was as good as got.

After testing recipes that my sister sent me I discovered that the directions were not only easy to follow, but the results were incredible. My brownies have even been praised as the best ever tasted. Yes, even better than Grandma's. I find with this book I am eating much healthier, and saving money as well.

This book did wonders. Plus it makes a great gift for students!

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Annie

Practically useless for the average student!

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2007

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I bought this for my daughter who has almost no time to cook and is on a tight budget. What college student just happens to have a bag of avocadoes, asian dumplings, or fresh basil leaves lying around? The recipes in here are strong on the hippie vegetarian San Francisco side rather than the "top ramen" quick fix side. What a college student really needs is ideas of what to do with NORMAL ingredients and items that can be stocked without going bad. This book may be better for someone who actually has some interest in the "art" of cooking rather than just getting something on the healthy side in your stomach quickly. I guess I will keep looking for a true college student cookbook.

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RK

A simple guide to getting you on your way towards being a master chef.. well maybe

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2007

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I didn't get this when I went away to college. I'm going on my third year and this is also the first year I have to start cooking all my meals. I got this book for the how-to on simple everyday things that I think every kid/teenager/young adult should know about cooking. I've used it a few times already, mostly just to consult with and build off of. I do think it will always serve as a good reference or for those nights when I want something different I know I can always open it up and find something new that isn't complicated and doesn't call for too many ingredients. Overall I would definitely recommend this book. For once I'm not reading a recipe and going "what's that ingredient?" I'm more comfortable being able to check things like whether or not I need butter/oil in the pan to cook french toast and other such simple things that the experienced cook doesn't even think about. A very good guide to get you started.

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Gudrid

Great HS grad gift

Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2009

This is a great graduation gift for kids heading for college. With the pizza box title, it's macho enough to appeal to guys as well as girls.
Perfect for dorm get-togethers on hungry Sunday evenings.

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Marietta E. Kimball

what kids would this stuff

Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2006

Recomendations for setting up a new kitchen good. The rest is poor

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