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Publishers Weekly onThe Science of Good Cooking
A one-volume kitchen seminar, addressing in one smart chapter after another the sometimes surprising whys behind a cooks best practices.You get the myth, the theory, the science and the proof, all rigorously interrogated as only Americas Test Kitchen can do.
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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.
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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.
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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 onThe New Family Cookbook
This book upgrades slow cooking for discriminating, 21st-century palatesthat is indeed revolutionary.
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Buy this gem for the foodie in your family, and spend the extra money to get yourself a copy too.
The Missourian onThe Best of Americas Test Kitchen 2015
The sum total of exhaustive experimentationanyone interested in gluten-free cookery simply shouldnt be without it.
Nigella Lawson onThe How Can It Be Gluten Free Cookbook
Even ultra-experienced gluten-free cooks and bakers will learn something from this thoroughly researched, thoughtfully presented volume.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cooks illustrated kitchen hacks : how clever cooks get things done / the editors of Americas Test Kitchen.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-940352-00-8
eBook ISBN 978-1-940352-31-2
1. CookingHandbooks, manuals, etc. I. Americas Test Kitchen (Firm)
TX652.C7367 2015
641.5dc23
2015006557
Distributed by Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Tel. 800.733.3000
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