- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: America's Test Kitchen (Oct 1 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 093618471X
- ISBN-13: 978-0936184715
- Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 22 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Product Description
From Publishers Weekly
Covering the recipes, tastings, equipment tests and experiments of one of PBS's cooking programs, this latest volume from Cook's Illustrated magazine features its editors' customary expertise, pithy comments and well-researched results. Each chapter covers an episode from the show, which, while allowing viewers to follow week by week, gives the volume an overall lack of cohesiveness as it jumps from Salad 101 to Summer Tomatoes and One-Pot Wonders and an eclectic range of ingredients and methods. However, as with all the show's work, the editors' first discuss the dishes' objectives, the flavors desired, the textures and mouth feel wanted, before enumerating the experiments and variations explored to reach the final recipe, all of which allow the more experienced cook to understand the whys and wherefores that enable the final creation. Whether it's the fluffy Blueberry Pancakes, the flavorful Sesame Noodles with Shredded Chicken or the tangy Greek Salad, the results are reliable and flavorful. Liberally sprinkled throughout are the customary rating of products from tasting panels evaluating mayonnaises and milk chocolate to equipment, covering such diverse objects as ice cream makers and skillets.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
From the search for the best pot roast ever – with ultra-tender meat, perfectly cooked vegetables, and a rich sauce – to the ultimate lemon cheesecake topped with a luscious layer of lemon curd, this companion volume to the 2004 season of our television show puts you right at our side as we discover what works, what doesn’t and why.
Inside America's Test Kitchen brings you everything--every recipe, every kitchen equipment test, every tasting, every discovery, even every flop--from the 2004 season of our popular television series America's Test Kitchen. In its pages you'll get a behind-the-scenes look at how we test recipes, taste-test foods, and put cookware through its paces. Filled with 32 pages of full-color food photos and 451 candid black-and-white photos, Inside America's Test Kitchen will give you a close-up on the inner workings of the Cook's test kitchen.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Terrific,
By "elliotreed" (Rockville, MD USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Inside America's Test Kitchen (Hardcover)
I've bought a number of books published by Boston Common Press, and all of them, including this one, are superb cookbooks for the home cook. They explain exactly what to do and why to do it that way. In my experience, cookbooks of any sort (especially restaurant cookbooks by celebrity chefs) tend to suffer from poor writing and give uneven results. This one does not. To my palate, perhaps one out of every fifteen recipies falls flat, producing merely good rather than excellent results. Virtually everything is a crowd-pleaser.The only caveat I have to add is that there is a certain amount of overlap between different Boston Common Press books and Cook's Illustrated magazine. If you own lots of their books or subscribe to Cook's, find a copy of this book at your bookstore and thumb through it to see how many recipies are redundant. Still, an great buy.
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Keeping it rolling -- ATK pulls out another stellar volume,
By Brian Connors (Yarmouth, MA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Inside America's Test Kitchen (Hardcover)
The scrappy, fun America's Test Kitchen books, companions to the top-rated TV series of the same name, tend to compare to the more staid Best Recipe series the way classes at the local adult education center compare to college courses -- not necessarily as deep or down to earth, but a lot more varied and just as informative. This, the third Cooks Illustrated book devoted solely to the TV series, carries on the fun of last year's party-and-comfort-food oriented book and the original ATK Cookbook with an emphasis on things that might fall into the category of diner and cafe food. Organized by episode like its predecessors, Inside America's Test Kitchen goes down home with pan-roasted chicken and a quickie ragu bolognese, revisits Chinatown with beef and broccoli (a followup to last year's Kung Pao shrimp), and has fun with ethnic home cooking like cassoulet (trimmed down for weeknight use) and pollo fra diavolo. Trips to your local luncheonette include blueberry pancakes, Denver (i.e western) omelettes, the German Apple Pancake (i.e. the Baby Apple to New Englanders), corn muffins, and lemon cheesecake; even the espresso bar makes an appearance with chocolate chip cookies (including reviews of prepared cookie doughs) and a full frontal assault on the often-sawdusty oatmeal scone (flour choice is critical). In my review of last year's book, Here in America's Test Kitchen, I pointed out that it was a keg party; if that's so, this is the hangover cure for the next morning. It's perhaps a bit difficult to top the fun factor of a cookbook that starts you off with the best buffalo wings ever, but with yet another cool factor that's off the charts, the ATK crew have at least equaled it.
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Inside America's Test Kitchen: All-New Recipes, Quick Tips,,
By A Customer
This review is from: Inside America's Test Kitchen (Hardcover)
Fascinating and instructional book. They explain not only how to prepare the recipes but WHY you use different methods. I found the comparisons of brands of foods and utensils extremely helpful.
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