Restaurant recipes are usually closely guarded secrets that are never revealed to the public. One obvious reason is that they don't want to lose business. There is a new trend sweeping cooking circles and that is restaurant copycat recipes. There are some sites on the web that specialize in selling copycat restaurant recipes and many are very good. The secret to copycat recipes is careful research. There are Ebooks available that contain hundreds of copycat restaurant recipes from some of America's most popular restaurant chains including Applebee's, Chili's, McDonalds, KFC, Boston Market, Hard Rock Caf', Joe's Crab Shack, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, The Soup Nazi, Outback Steakhouse and many many more.

While the restaurants themselves don't really want you to know their secrets, you know the old saying " imitation is the sincerest form of flattery".

So if these recipes are jealously guarded secrets by the restaurants, how can you buy them in ebooks? Easy, because interested chefs and cooks from hundreds of backgrounds spend years reverse engineering the original recipes. What they come up with are copycat restaurant recipes which are true to the originals. These contributing chefs recipes are compiled into ebooks that are available online such as America's Most Wanted Recipes book. It is hard to find many of the best copycat recipes for free, mainly because when someone finds out the secrets to a great recipe, they are not eager to share it lightly. The bright side though is that you can spend under $20 online and get incredibly large collections of restaurant copycat recipes and have them instantly downloadable so you can get cooking right away.

You don't need to be a master chef or have years of experience to cook your favorite restaurant meals at home. When you get a good restaurant copycat recipe you can be sure you will impress anyone you cook for. Just find out their favorite dishes from their favorite resturant..go to your copycat recipe book and hit them with a surprise feast that will blow their mind, while saving you money at the same time.