Fondues & Hot Pots

By Susan Fuller Slack

Book Overview

Fondues & Hot Pots [Paperback] Susan Fuller Slack (Author),BOOK,COOKING, FISH, HEALTHY COOKING, This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557883696
• ISBN13: 9781557883698
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: HP Books
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Fondues & Hot Pot

Great book. I am interested in the history as well as the recipes, so this book is exactly what I wanted. Looking forward to making fondues and hot pots with family and friends.

Delicious fondues of all kinds!

Most fondue books are the size of a pamphlet, or slightly larger. This one is nearly full-sized, and a good 245 pages long. Ms. Slack certainly did not lack for ideas! To a certain extent she got so much further than other authors because she looked further than simple American and European cuisine, dipping (if you'll excuse the pun) extensively into Oriental hot pot dishes, for example. Chapters include a variety of recipes, plenty of basic information on each type of fondue, dips, and things like the entire side-bar on how to "Jazz Up Your Basic Cheese Fondue." Recipes include cheese fondues, broth and hot oil fondues, hot pots, Nabemono, dessert fondues, and plenty of things to go with: side dishes, salads, breads, beverages, dips, the stocks and broths you'll use in the fondues, and so on. As if all that weren't enough, Ms. Slack provides endless variations - on dips, on dippers, and on the fondues themselves. This means that there are even more recipes than at first you might suspect! Each fondue comes with a list of possible "foods for dipping," some of which are simple (fruits, bread), others of which she provides recipes for (almond dipping cake - yum!). She provides pages and pages of sources for unusual equipment or ingredients, many of which include web page addresses. The layout is fairly clean and obvious. My only (minor) gripe is the tendency of recipes to trail from one page onto the back (necessitating flipping around a bit). Other than that, I honestly can't think of a single complaint! Every recipe that we've tried from this cookbook has garnered a great big star next to its title - they've all been fantastic, delicious, and easy.

Good for fondue lovers

I have one gripe about this cookbook- The recipes are not one to a page. The way it is I find it difficult to find a recipe. The recipes are very good. The nature of this cooking is that some recipes do require unusual ingredients. However, for the most part the recipes require easy to find ingredients. The directions are easy to follow. I enjoy this cookbook. Enjoy.

An Absolutely WONDERFUL cookbook for Fondue lovers!!

This beautifully writtten and easy to follow cookbook is all you need to make your family and friends think you've recently graduated from one of the World's great chef schools. Susan Fuller Slack has written several of my favorite cookbooks on ethnic foods- "Japanese Cooking for the American Table" and " MEXICAN - Best of Old Mexico and the Modern Southwest", but this one is even better. It makes my mouth water just to write about it. You should definitely add this book to your kitchen library!