Product 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #470037 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.12" h x 8.67" w x 10.09" l, 2.45 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

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.
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About the Author

Cook's Illustrated, Home of America's Test Kitchen producesthe very popular America's Test Kitchen Public Television series that is seen inboth the US and Canada by over 1 million viewers. Additionally, it is associatedwith Cooks Illustrated Magazine, a leading and highly respected foodpublication that is available throughout Canada.

Cook's Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen titles includingThe New Best Recipe - revised and expanded from the classic, The BestRecipe, which has sold over 350,000 copies, companions to the America's TestKitchen Public Television series, and many other bestselling and award-winningcookbooks such as Baking Illustrated, Cover and Bake and TheBest Kitchen Quick Tips.