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Now You Can Cook Like The Restaurants

James Romenesko Knight-Ridder

Dying for a bowl of Wendy’s chili? Or a cup of Starbucks Frappuccino?

Thanks to the Top Secret Recipes site (www.topsecretrecipes.com), you can whip up both of them at home.

Relying on tipsters (i.e., ex-employees of chain eateries) and “kitchen chemists” who clone well-known food items, the Top Secret proprietors provide recipes for such brand-name dishes as Applebee’s Oriental Chicken Salad, International House of Pancakes pancakes and Dunkin’ Donuts doughnuts.