Product Description

The 1997 Annual Edition contains all six issues of Cook's Illustrated from 1997, bound into a permanent, durable reference volume.

Over 216 pages provide you with…

More than 200 guaranteed-perfect recipes, including All Season Apple Pie,Authentic Pulled Pork BBQ, and Perfect Stuffed Turkey

• Over 350 step-by-step illustrations walking you through techniques including Grilling Tips, Constructing and Decorating a Gingerbread Cottage, and How To Prepare and Eat a Lobster
• Equipment testings including Rating Electric Knife Sharpeners, Rating Food Processors, and Rating Kitchen Thermometers
• Food tastings including canned crushed tomatoes, orange juice, and baking chocolate

  In addition, the 1997 Annual contains every quick tip, book review and wine tasting from 1997, as well as a master index that lets you turn to the issue, page, article and information you need in seconds.

  This edition puts all of Cook's Illustrated from 1997 at your fingertips, in one durable, handsome reference volume.
  

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1121806 in Books
• Published on: 1997-11-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 216 pages

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.

Customer Reviews

THE test kitchen
Cook's Illustrated 1997 Collector's Edition is part of a series that saves us the time by testing and tasting everything we've always wanted to know, but lacked the resources to do ourselves. They provide detailed explanations for why they liked what they did and why it's the 'best'. The sweet and sour taste buds of everyone varies, so these valuable details allow the reader to determine what is the 'best' as well.

This annual includes 'curry demystified', 'how to cook basmati rice', 'the best hot cocoa', 'rediscovering whole wheat bread', 'porcini mushroom pasta sauces', 'citrus secrets', 'big, beautiful muffins', 'reinventing macaroni and cheese', 'the problem with oatmeal cookies', 'how to roast a whole turkey breast', 'rating unsweetened chocolates', 'testing roasting racks for poultry', 'tasting burgundies', 'cookbook reviews', 'chicken and dumplings', 'tender spinach salads', 'rediscovering corned beef and cabbage', 'Irish soda bread', 'food processor crepes', 'how to cook shoulder lamb chops', 'the best buttermilk doughnuts', 'key lime pie in minutes', 'braised celery', 'all canned crushed tomatoes are not the same', 'do electric knife sharpeners really work?', 'rating electric knife sharpeners', 'tasting non-chardonnay white wines', 'foolproof focaccia', 'the secrets of panfrying steaks', '20-minute tomato sauce', 'how to cook sugar snap peas', 'how to buy, cook, and serve lobster', 'real strawberry shortcake', 'lace cookies', 'two French toasts', 'how to poach an egg', 'choosing the right saucepan', 'rating saucepans', 'rating orange juices', 'tasting Italian wines', 'how to grill salmon', 'supreme chicken salads', 'making sense of mayonnaise', 'crunchy cucumber salads', 'building a better shrimp cocktail', 'how to grill bone-in chicken breasts', 'home-style pulled pork barbecue', 'great hot fudge sauce', 'semifreddo', 'fruit upside-down cake', 'rating salsas', 'rating instant-read thermometers', 'rating beers', 'quick vegetable lasagne', 'quick broccoli side dishes', 'the secrets of prebaking pie shells', 'quiche worth eating', 'better than store-bought bagels', 'how to use Chinese cleavers', 'pan-sauteed pork tenderloin', 'how to roast Cornish hens', 'caesar salad rediscovered', 'homemade rugelach', 'rating canned beans', 'rating full-size food processors', 'tasting Bordeaux under 20 dollars', 'traditional latkes', 'how to perfectly roast a stuffed turkey', 'quick winter relishes', 'holiday pork roast', 'pasta with clam sauce', 'how to make a gingerbread alpine cottage', 'the best roasted onions', 'all-sason apple pie', 'holiday eggnog', 'a simple chocolate truffle', 'rating white chocolate', 'rating corkscrews', and many, many recipes.