The Bon Appetit Cookbook: Fast Easy Fresh

This is the second time I have purchased this cookbook as I plan to bestow it on some lucky person - haven't decided yet who! EVERYTHING is easy and delicious. Hands down, my best go-to, especially when I'm too busy to cook a detailed dish. The ingredients are easy to find and the results are delicious. BUY THIS BOOK! You won't be sorry.

Got this for my mom for her birthday (one of those gifts that very much serve both you and the person you give the gift to). I've made 5 recipes and have loved each one. This is basically an encyclopedic cookbook, but one from Bon Appetit. There are 600 pages of recipes (1100). Each recipe has something that gives it a slightly gourmet flair. It reminds me of a fancy version of "How to Cook Everything," which I bought when I was 22 and didnt know how to cook anything. Now that I am in my 30s, I love to cook and have a more refined pallat. I don't cringe when i see strange ingredients or immediately turn the page, i am excited (don't be mislead, there is maybe 1 ingredient per recipe that you might need to go to Whole Foods to purchase). It does not have a lot of pictures, but that is fine with me.

The recipes are good and they all have very few ingredients but it hasn't worked out for me.The issue I have is pretty much every recipe calls for something I never have on hand. If you are the type that picks your recipes before shopping, you have a list ready with the specific ingredients, this won't be an issue. If you're the type of person that has tons of unusual stuff in your pantry, great! This will work for you.I'm not like that, I usually don't know what I'm making until I look in my freezer and take something out.For example yesterday I took out some pork chops, at 4pm I open the cookbook hoping for an interesting way to prepare them. First recipe required chiles in adobe sauce, nope don't have that one. Next required sesame oil and fresh ginger, nope. Next required andouille sausage, yet again, nope. I was unable to prepare any of the recipes, yet again.If you are like me and don't plan ahead and dragging two kids to the grocery store at 4pm doesn't sound good, this might not be the best cookbook for you.

I bought this cookbook as a gift for my girlfriend who is very interested in healthy, fresh recipes. She has criticized my usual habits of eating poorly, or of choosing recipes from other cookbooks that weren't particularly healthy. We've used many recipes from this cookbook, but because of its size I expect that we won't run out of new recipes for a number of years. She absolutely loves this cookbook and feels that she finally has a really nice set of recipes for her lifestyle.She also loves the Bon Appetit magazine, and was thrilled that there is a cookbook that contains all the healthy recipes that she'd seen in her magazines. I strongly recommend this cookbook to anyone who is looking for healthy, fresh recipes that aren't difficult to make.

If you like gourmet food, but don't have the time to prepare gourmet food, then this book you will love.The recipes can be prepared in very little time and they all have atleast one or more ingredients that make each recipe delicious. For example, the egg salad sandwiches on pg. 159 they have curry powder, currents, cilantro, and green onion.I think you will not regret getting this cookbook, if you like great tasting food, but don't have a lot of time to prepare it. And if your like me and want your food to be a great experience in that it taste delicious, then you will love this awesome cookbook. The copy I have is my second copy, because my first copy, I gave to my daughter who was recently married and loves tasty food.bon appetit!

i bought this book because i already own the other bon appetit book and the words FAST and FRESH caught my eye since those are two of the most important things i look for when i am in the kitchen. i have tried several recipes out of this book which is several hundred pages, btw. it truly does stand up to its name. fast, easy and fresh. i literally will go straight to the index and see what i can make based on what is in my refridgerator and have been quite successful with my two kids (ages 4 and 6) and my husband. they also use easy to find ingredients, unlike the other book, which is more gourmet. perfect for weeknight cooking. key word: fast. i highly recommend it.

What a wonderful book! I've had this cookbook for just about a week now and everything I've made so far has been *wonderful*! And, just as billed, they have been both fast and easy as well. Habit has me starting dinner ~4-4:30pm, but with this cookbook I can actually wait another half hour to an hour - till 4:30-5, without issue. Last night I made Wasabi Crusted Chicken Breasts which were great. Most impressively though, is that I have yet to come across an ingredient that I either don't have or don't know where to get it from, which has been a frequent problem in many other cookbooks I've tried - recipes that sound delicious, but are impossible to make due to unfindable ingredients!!

I love this book. The recipes are so easy to follow. There are helpful tips throughout. I strive to be an excellent cook for my family and this book has helped me to become my family's Master Chef. I usually check out cookbooks from the library, make a couple of recipes once and then move on to the next book until I checked out this one. I wanted to make everything in there so I had to get it. This is an incredible book - one that I'll have for my entire life.All of the ingredients are readily available anywhere you shop. A few reviews noted that the ingredients are hard to find. I find this to be absurd.

Es gibt wirklich viele Rezepte. Ich finde nur, dass die Bilder zu wenig sind. Ansonst ist das Buch sehr praktisch.

I love the Bon Appétit cookbooks. This one is no exception.

Full of great relatively quick dishes, suitable for everyday and for company Lots of inventive ways to use ingredients one normally has on hand

It is a very good cookbook. Highly recommended.

Great recipes! Many easy to do.