America’s Test Kitchen - The New Essentials Cookbook: A Modern Guide to Better Cooking

Selected as the Cookbook Award Winner of 2017 in the Baking Category

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CULINARY PROFESSIONALS (IACP) ON BREAD ILLUSTRATED

With 1,000 photos and the expertise of the Americas Test Kitchen editors, this title might be the definitive book on bread baking.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON BREAD ILLUSTRATED

The editors at Americas Test Kitchen pack decades of baking experience into this impressive volume of 250 recipesYoull find a wealth of keeper recipes within these pages.

LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW) ON THE PERFECT COOKIE

A terrifically accessible and useful guide to grilling in all its forms that sets a new bar for its competitors on the bookshelfThe book is packed with practical advice, simple tips, and approachable recipes.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW) ON MASTER OF THE GRILL

This encyclopedia of meat cookery would feel completely overwhelming if it werent so meticulously organized and artfully designed. This is Cooks Illustrated at its finest.

THE KITCHN ON THE COOKS ILLUSTRATED MEAT BOOK

Selected as one of Amazons Best Books of 2015 in the Cookbooks and Food Writing Category

AMAZON ON THE COMPLETE VEGETARIAN COOKBOOK

This book is a comprehensive, no-nonsense guidea well-thought-out, clearly explained primer for every aspect of home baking.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ON THE COOKS ILLUSTRATED BAKING BOOK

Cooks with a powerful sweet tooth should scoop up this well-researched recipe book for healthier takes on classic sweet treats.

BOOKLIST ON NATURALLY SWEET

The 21st-century Fannie Farmer Cookbook or The Joy of Cooking. If you had to have one cookbook and thats all you could have, this one would do it.

CBS SAN FRANCISCO ON THE NEW FAMILY COOKBOOK

The go-to gift book for newlyweds, small families, or empty nesters.

ORLANDO SENTINEL ON THE COMPLETE COOKING FOR TWO COOKBOOK

The sum total of exhaustive experimentationanyone interested in gluten-free cookery simply shouldnt be without it.

NIGELLA LAWSON ON THE HOW CAN IT BE GLUTEN-FREE COOKBOOK

A one-volume kitchen seminar, addressing in one smart chapter after another the sometimes surprising whys behind a cooks best practicesYou get the myth, the theory, the science, and the proof, all rigorously interrogated as only Americas Test Kitchen can do.

NPR ON THE SCIENCE OF GOOD COOKING

The perfect kitchen home companionThe practical side of things is very much on displaycook-friendly and kitchen-oriented, illuminating the process of preparing food instead of mystifying it.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ON THE COOKS ILLUSTRATED COOKBOOK

Another winning cookbook from ATKThe folks at Americas Test Kitchen apply their rigorous experiments to determine the facts about these pans.

BOOKLIST ON COOK IT IN CAST IRON

Some 2,500 photos walk readers through 600 painstakingly tested recipes, leaving little room for error.

ASSOCIATED PRESS ON THE AMERICAS TEST KITCHEN COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK

An exceptional resource for novice canners, though preserving veterans will find plenty here to love as well.

LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW) ON FOOLPROOF PRESERVING

Copyright 2018

by Americas Test Kitchen

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Americas Test Kitchen (Firm)

Title: The new essentials cookbook : a modern guide to better cooking / Americas Test Kitchen.

Description: Boston, MA : Americas Test Kitchen, [2018] | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018017355 | ISBN 9781945256042 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Cooking. | LCGFT: Cookbooks.

Classification: LCC TX714 .N492 2018 | DDC 641.5--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018017355

Ebook ISBN9781945256059

Americas Test Kitchen

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Editorial Director, Books Elizabeth Carduff

Executive Editor Adam Kowit

Senior Editors Leah Colins and Sara Mayer

Associate Editor Rachel Greenhaus

Editorial Assistant Alyssa Langer

Design Director, Books Carole Goodman

Art Director Lindsey Chandler

Deputy Art Directors