The Frugal Gourmet Whole Family Cookbook: Recipes and Reflections for Contemporary Living

by Jeff Smith and Chris Cart

Book Overview

Modern general Cookbook. The Series on PBS that featured this author making the recipes in his various books was very popular. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688069347
• ISBN13: 9780688069346
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

"THE FRUGS" BRINGS THE FAMILY BACK TO THE TABLE!

My title blurb say it all. This book is filled with great recipes, history and family tradition! Jeff Smith spoke about interesting traditions and origins on his entertaining PBS show. Before 'The Food Network' we had the witty and talented 'Frugal Gourmet'. This book deals with some simplistic, yet very good classic family dishes. Nothing fancy, just great traditional family food! Something the world seems to be missing these days is time spent in the kitchen with the family preparing meals for "get togethers". Make time for this book, your family and friends! Even if your not a "religious" person these are words to live by. This is yet another excellent cook book by Jeff Smith! It's full of great recipes and stories by a very talented cook and writer. This one focuses on family cooking. I have used many of these recipes and found them to be very good. Being a home grown cook myself and having had many of my grandmother's classic recipes handed down to me, I found this book to be very helpful in expanding my culinary taste buds. Jeff Smith entertained us for years on his PBS program 'The Frugal Gourmet'. Not only did he teach us many savory dishes, he also educated us. Not satisfied with just cooking delicious meals for his viewers, he would give detailed history lessons about the origins of the dish and made it all a lot of fun! This may be Mr. Smiths best cook book and it is a worthy edition to everyone's cook book library. I own and have read many, if not all of his cook books, not only for the man's knowledge of cooking, but his incredible wit! This guy was funny and I would have loved to have hung out and throw a few beers down with him. Unfortunately, this man had some very seriously bad press released about his personal life and well..... I am not one to spread rumors.....he seemed like a great guy and sadly he died before he was able to clear his name. R.I.P. Frugs!

I liked the recipes but

my girlfriend did not like the fact there was no visuals any of the recipes. I go by names and ingredients, she goes by pictures. ::shrug:: The recipes are great either way

Gotta Love Gus the Dog, He is so Wise

I've had this book for years and I go to it about once a month or so for an idea. I particularly like the comments by Gus the Dog. He is so right when he says that "People become confused when they are all cooking together and having a good time." Gus thinks it's better to stand by the door and watch, because they will feed you sooner or later. That's good advice for all you arm chair chefs. This book is chucky jammed full of delicious recipes from around the world and down the street. The neighborhood, Europe, Asia and more all between the pages of one cookbook, can't ask for more than that. But you get more here, because you get Jeff Smiths delicious sense of humor and his doggone good writing. This is so much more than a cookbook, it's good old fashioned entertainment as well. It's a must for any chef. Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne

Good

I've been cooking from this book for over 10 years now, and I'm still sometimes surprised by the recipes I haven't tried yet. Just today I gave the Potato Gnocchi Liddia recipe to a friend. Not every recipe is a favorite in our household, but the Frug had never led us far astray.