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Cook's Illustrated by Boston Common Press

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ASIN:	B000069YW9
Sales Rank:	80
Catalog:	Magazine
Binding:	Magazine
Product Group:	Magazine
Product Type:	ABIS_MAGAZINE
Release Date:	2002-06-28
Manufacturer:	Boston Common Press
Format:	Magazine Subscription

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Cook's Illustrated provides readers with recipes, cooking techniques, and product and food recommendations exhaustively developed in our extensive Test Kitchen facility - the same kitchen featured on our cooking show, America's Test Kitchen. Included are best ways to prepare favorite American dishes -- from pot roast and chocolate chip cookies to grilled salmon and fruit cobbler. Best (and worst) cooking equipment -- from chef's knives to cookie sheets. Best brands -- from canned tomatoes to baking chocolate. Best cooking techniques - from brining shrimp to baking ham. And all of this is provided without a single page of advertising - just 100% cooking information.

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Great magazine needs
8/28/2008
an index...they are very concise, the back stories to the recipe testings are funny, entertaining, and great to read while, you wait for bread to rise, chicken to marinate, meat to brine, etc, etc.....my son loves all of the recipes I have made from this magazine (25 +), my picky eater husband also loves the recipes especially the chicken teriyaki (broiler method, plus I add honey to the sauce....), orange chicken, sichuan green beans with pork, dark chocolate cupcakes, cuban roast pork, mushroom risotto, easy oven roasted chicken, blueberry scones, brown sugar cookies, and the Christmas supper I prepared was also very good (though time consuming) shrimp bisque, beef tenderloin, mashed potatoes, flourless chocolate torte, on and on...you get the picture...drooooolllllll

the only problem you will have (if you want to see it as a problem)...is the expanding waistlines that your family will procure after you begin cooking these recipes...!

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Cook's Magazine
8/13/2008
Excellent mag with clear, practical, EXECUTABLE recipes that have been tested to avoid the usual pitfalls associated with many popular dishes. Outstanding illustrations and helpful product (tools and/or ingredients) recommendations. A big help for both novice and experienced cooks.

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Great magazine, terrible delivery on first issue
8/12/2008
I gave a subscription as a gift to a friend back in April. I was told that the first delivery would be sometime between July 11 and August 8 which I thought was unreasonable, but I let it go. It is now August 12 and I am being told that delivery would be 'by September 8' -- for the July/August issue! From now on I will be going directly to the publisher.

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Not for the casual cook
8/1/2008
Gosh I never knew cooking could be so... boring! Like many other reviewers, I was annoyed by the profuse amount of advertising included with a subscription to this magazing. The worst part is how each magazine has a dense construction paper-like front cover ad actually stapled into the binding of the magazine itself, which makes removing a hassle. So much for paying extra for a magazine without advertisements!

I generally subscribe to cooking magazines for inspiration to try new dishes, but the dull writing style and lack of pictures (especially color photos) in Cooks Illustrated really never made me very enthusiastic about the recipes. On the bright side, their more scientific approach to finding the 'optimum' recipe for a certain dish, and discovering the purpose of how adding ingredients led to a successful recipe, is quite interesting to a serious cook. I can certainly understand why some people enjoy this magazine, but it was not for me.

Considering a subsription to CI costs about twice as much as the other cooking magazines for only half of the issues, I felt that the magazine really lacked content or many interesting recipes.

Lastly, I originally subscribed to CI based on all of the positive reviews here on amazon, but to my disappointment I received three letters informing me that my subscription was running out and that I should resubscribe BEFORE I even received m first issue! Pretty tacky business practices if you ask me. In the end, I only received 5 issues of the expected 6 issue subscription, but I had lost interest in the magazine by then so never bothered to track down a 6th issue.

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A must have magazine
6/26/2008
Not only does Cook's Illustrated provide you with amazing recipes (I have received numerous compliments on their Olive-Rosemary Bread) but also the background explanation as to how the testers created the recipes. This is extremely useful in helping you understand what ingredients perform what functions in different dishes so that if a dish doesn't strike a perfect chord with you the first time you make it, you know what to alter to customize it to your liking.

I recommend this magazine to everyone I know, cooks and non-cooks alike. You will NOT regret a subscription to Cook's Illustrated.

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