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Learn to COOK - Best American Side Dishes (Best Recipe)
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List Price: $35.00
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Manufacturer: America's Test Kitchen
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.81
EAN: 9780936184852
ISBN: 093618485X
Label: America's Test Kitchen
Manufacturer: America's Test Kitchen
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2005-02-28
Publisher: America's Test Kitchen
Studio: America's Test Kitchen
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Cooks today are looking for more creative ways to prepare side servings of vegetables, rice or grains. They still want the basics like how to make fluffy white rice and mashed potatoes, but they also want to know how to make really good risotto or perhaps a fresh-flavoured dip for crudites. With "Best American Side Dishes", the editors of "Cook's Illustrated" provide more than 500 recipes for dishes to round off every kind of meal - from weeknight suppers to special celebrations. Packed with more than 250 illustrations, "Best American Side Dishes" shows you step-by step how to prepare vegetables for crudites, clean salad greens, and cut potatoes for frying. Ingredient tastings and equipment testings rate extra-virgin olive oil, mayonnaise, paring knives, salad spinners, and more, so you know just what brands to buy (and which to avoid). Whether you're looking for just the right combination of appetizers to serve before a special meal or easy sides dishes to serve with midweek suppers, "Best American Side Dishes" is here to lend a hand with all the recipes and know-how you've come to expect from the editors at "Cook's Illustrated".
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Summary: "Cooks" cookbooks are exceellent
Comment: I have used this cookbook over and over again, it's an excellent adjunct to my cookbook library. In fact, I've enjoyed it (and it's recipes) so much I purchased two copies as gifts for two "foodie" friends. They each had complimented a dish I prepared from the cookbook--I know they will like the gift! The recipes are sophisticated enough to satisfy their "foodiness" yet simple enough to accomplish fairly quickly.
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Summary: Good only if you don't own "The New Best Recipe" by Cooks Illustrated
Comment: A passionate home cook that has been honing her cooking skills for the last 25 years, concentrating on Italian cooking for the last 10 years, writes this review. My favorite cookbooks are "The Professional Chef" by the Culinary Institute and "Culinary Artistry". With more than 500 cookbooks in my collection I am usually disappointed in my recent cookbook acquisitions. If you do not own "The New Best Recipes" by the same editor you will like this book, if you do, read on.
The book is outlined as follows:
1. Appetizers
2. Salads
3. Vegetables Sides and Casseroles
4. Potato Sides and Casseroles
5. Rice, Grain and Bean Sides and Casseroles
The "Side Dishes" by the editors of Cooks Illustrated Magazine is a nice book provided that you do not own either "Italian Classics" or "Best Recipes" by the same editors. If you own either of these two books (as I do) you will find that this book contains many of the same recipes. The books are not entirely duplicative, but at least 50% of all the recipes are in either and sometimes both of the other two books.
In the first chapter on Appetizers even the order of the recipes is the same as "The New Best Recipe" book. I stopped looking after the first five recipes were the same, and in the same order.
Many of the recipes in this book have a strong Italian influence. Most of these recipes are Italian classics. The recipes themselves are very good, and authentically Italian when appropriate. There are also some Mexican and French recipes included as well.
If you don't own either "Italian Classics" or "Best Recipes" this is a nice book. The recipes are strong and the dishes routinely turn out well. This book is written in the usual Cooks Illustrated Style. The writers tell you what they tried that did and did not work followed by the recipe. If you don't plan to purchase "The New Best Recipe" by the editors of Cooks Illustrated I recommend this book. However, I would suggest that you purchase "Best Recipe" instead since it covers many more recipes including most if not all of these.
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