The Phony Gourmet: Includes 75 Delicious Recipes for Shortcut Cooking
Worth buying if: You are looking for a straightforward explanation or story.
Skip it if: You need a very different pace.
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Summary
The listing describes The Phony Gourmet: Includes 75 Delicious Recipes for Shortcut Cooking by Pam Young & Peggy Jones as a book about food, cooking, or the kitchen. This edition is listed as 1995 • Harpercollins • 143 pages.
Why this book now
More appealing if you want an older backlist book that still feels distinct instead of generic filler.
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Good fit if you want...
- You are looking for a straightforward explanation or story.
- You need a book you can read without much background.
- When you prefer lyrical prose, the choices here have no easy moral answers.
- You need a very different pace.
- You are looking for a book you can finish in one very short sitting.
- You are specifically hunting for the newest framing rather than a backlist perspective.
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Exact edition: Hardcover · ISBN-13 9780060172046
Worth buying if: You are looking for a straightforward explanation or story.
Skip it if: You need a very different pace.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
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Reading commitment
Quick Easy to move through
Browse-first commitment. More useful in short kitchen or idea-hunting sessions than in one long sitting.
What stands out here
This book can be kept nearby and opened whenever you need an idea for the kitchen.
Best way to approach it
Open it when you need an idea, recipe, or answer. It does not have to be read straight through.
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Hardcover: ISBN-13 9780060172046
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