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Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: An All-American Road Trip . . . with Recipes! (Food Network) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Guy Fieri, Ann Volkwein
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
Buy New: $11.70
You Save: $8.25 (41%)
Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 101
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0061724882
Dewey Decimal Number: 647.9573
EAN: 9780061724886
ASIN: 0061724882
Publication Date: November 1, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Food Network star Guy Fieri takes you on a tour of America's most colorful diners, drive-ins, and dives in this tie-in to his enormously popular television show, complete with recipes, photos, and memorabilia. Packed with Guy's iconic personality, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives follows his hot-rod trips around the country, mapping out the best places most of us have never heard of. From digging in at legendary burger joint the Squeeze Inn in Sacramento, California, baking Peanut Pie from Virginia Diner in Wakefield, Virginia, or kicking back with Pete's "Rubbed and Almost Fried" Turkey Sandwich from Panini Pete's in Fairhope, Alabama, Guy showcases the amazing personalities, fascinating stories, and outrageously good food offered by these American treasures.
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Tasty recipes! November 19, 2008
Penguin Chick
While I'm not a big fan of the show, I really enjoyed this cookbook. I am the kind of person who always likes to find out people's "secret recipes" for the foods that others rave about. In this book, Guy visits several places most of us have never heard about, but they are places that the locals love and swarm to. Then he picks a dish that everyone who frequents that place loves...and he gives us the recipe! I've tried a few so far and they have been not only easy to prepare, but delicious. Even if you don't love the "Guy", you'll love this cookbook!
Health Hazard and Happy About It November 15, 2008
Steven Larsen (Philadelphia, USA)
I don't have a TV so I have never seen Guy Fieri's show or even heard of him. After reading this book, I hope he has health insurance. The book consists of profiles of the country's top greasy spoons and dives. The atmosphere is casual and the calories astronomic. Personally, I stopped eating this type of food on a regular basis, so the subject matter isn't as interesting as it would have been a decade ago. Still, with a title like this book has, you know what you are getting into.
A typical entry takes up four pages or so and includes a rundown of the menu and history of the place, some photos and then a recipe adapted from the restaurant's menu. I suppose my biggest complaint is the selection of photos. Most are pictures of the interior or exterior of the establishment, but rarely is there a picture of the food. I would have enjoyed seeing a close up of the dish for which the recipe was given. I might be more likely to make Zaruela if I knew what it looked like.
Altogether, a great book for fans of greasy American food and for the health unconscious among us.
 Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives November 15, 2008
L. Olson (Chicago)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Disappointed! If you are a fan of the show, then this book will frustrate you. First, they do not cover some of the best diners, such as the Mad Greek. Second, the restaurants that are discussed miss the mark. The show makes you want to get in the car and drive to every corner of the US in search of the best diner food. The book doesn't thoroughly cover the menu items featured on the show. Basically, it gives you one recipe from each of a handful of the restaurants from the show. I would have rather had a travel guide and restaurant overview.
Great even those not fans of the show November 14, 2008
Soaping Diva (Flora, IL United States)
Cookbooks are my love, I don't get to cook that often but still collect them. I got this book thinking it would just be another one for the collection, but after going through it - more than a few times - I have flagged several recipes to try. I was really excited to find the recipe for fried dill pickles - I love these and try to find them when we travel through the south. There were a couple of recipes using the smoker also that will be tried soon, most likely over the holidays. A few of the recipes were a bit overwhelming, either in ingredients or in steps, but were still interesting to read through. I would recommend this to all cookbook collectors, cooks and/or fans of the show.
I love this show and cookbook November 13, 2008
DW (Northern California)
This is one of my favorite shows to watch and I was so excited that they have taken some of those recipes and made a cookbook out of it. Several restaurants are featured with a recipe, with some pictures of Guy's experience there. The only thing that I didn't like was that some of the restaurants would not share their favorite 'secret' recipes and would provide a secondary recipe instead.
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