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Gran Leon Books - The New Best Recipe: All-New Edition
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List Price: $35.00
Our Price: $23.10
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Manufacturer: America’s Test Kitchen
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5
EAN: 9780936184746
ISBN: 0936184744
Label: America’s Test Kitchen
Manufacturer: America’s Test Kitchen
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1000
Publication Date: 2004-10-15
Publisher: America’s Test Kitchen
Studio: America’s Test Kitchen
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With The New Best Recipe, we invite you into America’s Test Kitchen where you will stand by our side as we try to develop the best macaroni and cheese, the best meatloaf, the best roast chicken, the best brownie, and nearly 1,000 more best recipes for all your favorite home-cooked foods. Behind this book is a deeply felt understanding of how frustrating it can be to spend time planning, shopping and cooking only to turn out dishes that are mediocre at best. With The New Best Recipe in hand, you will have access to a wealth of practical information that will not only make you a better cook but a more confident one as well. In fact, as long as you follow our instructions, we guarantee that these recipes will work the first and every time. We have also included 800 illustrations showing you the best way to do almost everything from how to carve a turkey and beat egg whites properly to how to frost a layer cake and set up your grill. Also, get valuable information on how and when to splurge on that expensive knife or baking pan and when the basic model will do just fine. We also explain the science of cooking since understanding the science of food can help anyone become a better cook. Complete with recipes ranging from appetizers to desserts, The New Best Recipe
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Summary: A Behemoth Cookbook
Comment: Don't get me wrong, I love this cookbook. That is, I love reading it and looking at tips on what NOT to do in a recipe, and if I have something particular in mind that I want to cook, I go to this book for a tried-and-true recipe. The major caveat is that, when I want to cook something quickly on a weeknight, when I'm starved for time - I do not haul out this monster book. It is too big to sit in my small apartment kitchen, so it has to go on my regular bookcase, and it is too big to sit comfortably on a cookbook stand. Simply put, it's an interesting, but ridiculously large five-pound behemoth of a book with 1000 pages, which makes it hard for me (as a very petite person), to pull from the shelf and quickly peruse through.
I bought it because of all the five-star reviews, enjoy reading it, and have made some of the recipes with success (!) but it's not my go-to, "grab-off-the-shelf-and-go" book. That award goes to my smaller cookbooks, like "Food Network's - How to Boil Water" and "Better Homes and Gardens - Cooking for Two," even though they're much more limited in size and scope. Though I love it, one star off for sheer unwieldiness.
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Summary: Very pleased
Comment: Wonderful cookbook. Bought it as a Christmas gift for my daughter. She was really pleased. She is really into the culinary arts and said this was the "best of the best".
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Summary: The New Best Recipes
Comment: I loved this cookbook, and I bought 3 more for gifts and they seemed to like it too. I love reading about the "science" behind the decisions made for recipes and techniques, although a lot of it is still opinion and conjecture...it makes for interesting reading. The packaging on the other hand was horrible. 4 heavy books in a box with little packing, left to bounce around, they popped open the box, and UPS left it outside to get snowed on. I kept the one book that got wet, but honestly, that was sub par.
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Summary: AMAZON REVIEWS IN GENERAL
Comment: REVIEWS WITH 5 STAR RATINGS GET FIRST VIEWED. LEAVING ALL THE OTHER REVIEWS LEFT BEHIND. I AM SURE THAT AMAZON WANTS TO SELL ALL THEIR PRODUCTS NO MATTER WHAT THE CUSTOMER THINKS. I AM ONE OF THE BIGGEST CUSTOMERS OF AMAZON. REVIEWS NEED TO BE RE-ADDRESSED FOR THE CONSUMER. IN REGARDS TO THIS COOK BOOK, VERY VERY VERY LONG EXPLANATIONS TO RECIPES THAT WERE INVENTED BY MY GRANDMOTHER'S GENERATION. THE REASON FOR THE FIVE STAR, WAS IT'S COVER ON THE BOOK.
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Summary: Guaranteed success!
Comment: This book is fantastic! You can feel confident that whatever recipe you decide to make will turn out good. I would feel confident cooking for a dinner party using a recipe from this book without evening trying it out in advance.
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