Top Secret Restaurant Recipes [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION* * *Now it's time for something a little different.It was a blast writing the first two Top Secret Recipes cookbooks that include secret recipes inspired by convenience foodboth fast food and packaged food, like Big Macs, Snickers, Oreos, and Twinkles. Sure, dissecting hamburgers, candy bars, cookies, and snack cakes is strange, sticky, tedious work; but when long-time aficionados of these goodies claim the copycat recipe was "right on," or when a blindfolded talk-show host is genuinely fooled in a taste test on live TV, I have to feel encouraged to continue the quest for clones.So, as I was mulling over the next Top Secret mission, I noticed that in 1996 America would reach a milestone in the full-service restaurant business. For the first time ever in one year, our hungry nation would spend a gastronomic $100 billion, gobbling up the sit-down meals prepared by these rapidly expanding chains casual diners and steakhouses like Big Boy, The Olive Garden, Outback, Chili's, and Applebee's. That got me thinking. In light of this landmark occasion, it seemed the perfect time for Top Secret Recipes to shift its focus, do a little snooping around in the full-service sector, and clone some dishes from the popular restaurant chains Americans have been frequenting in record numbers. But,