Cooking for 1 or 2 (Nitty Gritty Cookbooks) (A Nitty Gritty Cookbook)

By Katherine Hayes Greenberg

Book Overview

Offers over 275 recipes and ideas to make it easy to cook for the small household. This book presents each recipe with ingredients for 1 and 2 servings. It also offers tips on shopping, equipping the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558670890
• ISBN13: 9781558670891
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Nitty Gritty Cookbooks
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Perfect for time pressed singles

This is a great cookbook for singles who are pressed for time. I also like the fact that the recipes feature easy to find ingredients (if you don't have a lot of time to cook, you probably don't have much time to scour specialty markets either). My favorites are the recipes for sausage/lentil soup and ground beef mix. The only reason that I am not giving this five stars is the lack of color photos. Otherwise, it's a great book.

Not a bad cook book!

This is a pretty good cookbook if you are living in an apartment with a small kitchen and need to prepare for small meals. It covers simple dishes and the receipes are well written. The reason I'm not giving 5 stars is that the illustration of the book is a bit poor (ie. no color pictures) inside.

A most useful cookbook

Okay, it's not gourmet cooking. It is an everyday lifesaver for those of us who run out of ideas when cooking for oneself. A pleasant meal every day without strain. I've given two as gifts, one to an older person newly alone, and one to a late-teener just going out on his own.

Okay for beginners

This book introduces some pretty basic recipes with common ingredients. Since I'm a college student living on my own, these simple recipes are a welcome respite from the usual "open the can and pop it in the microwave" mentality. Also it is much easier to find a tasty dish since this book is shorter than, say, Joy of Cooking. Still there are many larger and more comprehsive books out there that one can turn into a cooking-for-one book through simple division.