Top Secret Restaurant Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones from America's Favorite Restaurant Chains

Restaurants include Big Boy, California Pizza Kitchen, The Cheesecake Factory, Chi Chi's, Chili's, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Denny's Dive, Hard Rock Cafe, Hooter's, Houlihan's, International House of Pancakes, Lone Star Steakhouse, Marie Callendar's, Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse, Pizza Hut, Planet Hollywood, Red Lobster, Ruby Tuesday, Ruth Chris Steak House, TGI Fridays, Tony Roma's A Place for Ribs and more....

Long before scientists in Scotland cloned Dolly the sheep, Todd Wilbur was hard at work replicating recipes from some of America's favorite restaurant chains. Armed with Ziploc bags for transporting leftovers and plenty of questions for his servers, Wilbur has combined the skills of a private eye and a research scientist to devise the tasty clones included in Top Secret Restaurant Recipes. Wilbur honed his technique on convenience food, creating exact duplicates of everything from a Big Mac to a Twinkie; in this book, however, he sets his sights on slightly more sophisticated fare. Within these pages you'll find sure-fire recipes for such chain favorites as Hard Rock Cafe's Famous Baby Rock Watermelon Ribs, Cheese Blintzes from the International House of Pancakes, and The Olive Garden's Hot Artichoke-Spinach Dip. Denny's, Shoney's, The Cheesecake Factory, and Pizza Hut are just a few of the many chain restaurants from which popular menu items have been "cloned." So the next time you have a hankering for Tony Roma's World Famous Ribs or a slice of Red Robin's Mountain High Mud Pie, don't bother to go out--instead, eat in with Top Secret Restaurant Recipes.