Test Kitchen Favorites: The 2007 Companion Cookbook to the Hit TV Show

Book Overview

The recipes from America's Test Kitchen make more than great television-they are developed with the home cook in mind and will work the first time you try them. That's because America's Test Kitchen... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933615044
• ISBN13: 9781933615042
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Cooks Illustrated
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 2.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

another delicious hit....

Another delicious hit...but then I do have most of their publications and love them all...

another great, but slightly flawed, cookbook from ATK

America's Test Kitchen is similar to Consumer Reports, but for food. They will try a recipe 100 times, with every variation possible, experimenting with ingredients and techniques, until they can give you an informative article and a winning recipe. I have tried about 14 recipes from this book and every one has been terrific. The carbonnade has a more complex flavor than carbonnade I ate in Belgium! We've also enjoyed the chicken parmesan, fish and chips, , chicken kiev, the pepper-crusted filet mignon (with a fantastic cherry-Port reduction), , stir fried chicken, hot and sour soup, potstickers and buttermilk coleslaw. And the strawberry cream cake is gorgeous and delicious. I am so confident in ATK's recipes that I've made a recipe for the first time when company was coming over, and it was wonderful. Articles are supplemented with terrific sidebars that typically rate ingredient brands, compare kitchen tools or show a technique. My only complaint about the whole series of ATK books is that they are organized idiosyncratically (sorry, but that is anathema to a librarian!) and have extremely poor indexes. For example, I knew the recipe for carbonnade was in the 2007 book. I looked in the index -- nothing under "carbonnade", nothing under "beef"! So I went to the table of contents. Nothing about carbonnade, but a chapter called "Best Beef Stew" -- could that be it? Luckily, yes, but that is no way to run a cookbook! You cannot go wrong with these great books -- consistently reliable and delicious recipes.

Test Kitchen Favorites is a great cookbook

I've been a faithful fan of America's Test Kitchen for years and have tried many of their recipes. This particular edition is excellent and I've tried several recipes in it and they've all been great. Instructions are clear, results are fantastic. The recipe for the Key Lime Bars is worth the cost of the book.