About the Book

The Un-Demanding Cookbook came to life celebrating the common and overlooked the simple things eaten everyday. With thousands of great cookbooks written, a book has not addressed the needs for those challenged who have a hard time boiling water and are further challenged on understanding how to surf the web looking for these simple recipes.  

This book brings fusion-cooking into a unique level of combining the preparation of ultra undemanding simple foods with infusing these people to explore the vast abyss of the web to find more food ideas. The accumulation of various and diverse menus is a unique aspect of the book.  The recipes themselves come from everyday people who have prepared traditional recipes. Yet, remain undiscovered because they can not find the authors of the cooking jewels.

The book has been organized with undemanding cooking stress in mind. It combines history, humor and really good cooking food ideas from masters like Dr. Toast™ and cultivate their cooking into a new way of life as presented by creative people within this book.

The intent of this book is to teach by blending humor and history together for different food events.  A new world waits for those to take the challenge of making seriously simple foods and use the web to expand their horizons. It is important for those people to open their minds and eyes to say, I did not know that was out there.  And, for our readers to actually contact those mentioned within this book and establish a friendship to make life much better. 

About the Author

John Aylmer grew up in Bayville, New York and graduated from Locust valley High School back in 1965. Being of product of the 60s, he joined the Navy and went to Viet Nam with VP-26.  After several decades working as a logistics analyst, his career goals did not mature until the development of the internet. Through his college experiences at National-Louis University, he gained an understanding of the perceptions and dynamics of people within an organization.

From the mid-90s to 2002, Mr. Aylmer made brittle candies and New York Cheese cakes by the dozen for people at work and as holiday presents.  During that time he heard many people repeatedly say they had a hard time boiling water and toasting bread.  Many said every cook book to them could have been written in Mandarin Chinese and that nothing was quick or easy. 

His curiosity grew rapidly and research started in bookstores looking at dozens and dozens of cook books. All were excellent and yet none were written for the cooking challenged.  He turned to web researching and found thousands of old and stable recipes for these challenged people.  The same people challenged in the kitchen were challenged looking for things on the web.  His analyst background and experience in developing research papers for the Army encouraged him to merge these two unrelated worlds for this book. He is not claiming ownership for any these recipes, but hoping that the readers will contact those people referenced in his book. Together, these people can find friendship and share experiences for those who are challenged in a kitchen.

He dedicates this book to his four year old grandson and to his wife, Barbara. She is a special-care newborn nurse at Florida Hospital and survivor of four ovarian cancer attacks. And further dedicates the book, to those grandparents raising their children’s children. Perhaps this book will bring awareness to these unsung American heroes.