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Tasty - Get Great Food on the Table Every Day
by Roy Finamore
Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 0-618-24033-0
Published April 2006 - Hardcover - 479 pages - $30.00

Roy Finamore is a cookbook and lifestyle editor-turned-coobook-author with his new book "Tasty".  I agree with Mr. Finamore that it's "baloney" that people don't have enough time to cook.  Especially if you have a family to feed - how can you not?  I always say, "If you can read a recipe, you can cook.  No excuses".  And, there are zillions of cookbooks to choose from.  Mr. Finamore's book includes Breakfast; Lunch; Soup; Weeknight Dinners; Weekend Cooking; Sides; Salads; Nibbles; Condiments, and Desserts.  Recipes I rather fancied are: Curried Chicken Salad; Lovely Lentil Soup; Meaty Lamb Shanks; Lasagna with Greens; Fennel Slaw; Smoked Trout Pâté; Eggplant Dip; Refrigerator Pickles (reminds me of the ones my mother used to make), and Plum Cake.  Fairly basic dishes that anyone with a kitchen can attempt.  After so many years editing cookbooks, I really thought his book would have been much more visually appealing.  There are so few illustrations which I believe, are necessary to entice the most reluctant of cooks, and the book is therefore pretty blah-looking.  No nutritional guides.  Do read the "Notes for the Cook" as they're informative and good to know.
Visit Mr. Finamore's website at www.tastycentral.com.
Conclusion - A useable cookbook.