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 The New Best Recipe: All-New Edition with 1,000 Recipes :: 0936184744
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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 Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
First of all, to assume that you can even compile a book of the "Best Recipes" is a bit presumptuous--everyone likes their food cooked differently, it's all a matter of taste. Looking for the best gumbo recipe is a bit like looking for the best baroque-era violin piece, everyone's going to have a slightly different opinion.
That said, I used this book with somewhat mixed results. I've tried a good number of varied recipes, including the shrimp and sausage gumbo, the potato-crusted salmon, the spaghetti marinara, and the orchietti with broccoli, to name a few. Although the salmon came out absolutely delicious, the rest were varied from decent to well below average. The orchietti was bland and lacked any real complexity. The gumbo tasted more like shrimp broth than anything else. Although I love how they explain in such detail their experimentation techniques (although they could do well to tone down the pretentiousness in their tone), the recipes were ultimately lackluster. I'm far from the most skilled or the most experienced chef, but I feel that a good cookbook should be able to compensate for that. Frankly, I've had better success from epicurious.com.
THE BAKING RECIPES however were FANTASTIC and the only reason I am still giving this four stars. The lemon cheesecake was absolutely perfect and got rave reviews from all my friends. The same with the New York cheesecake, the chocolate chip cookies, the apple pie, and the chocolate macaroons. Thanks to this book, I am now the official baked-goods provider of our weekly hang-out nights (like it or not :P).
My recommendation: If you're looking for good daily food recipes, either purchase something else or use this as a foundation for your own personal creations. If you want to bake, however, either spring for this book or get BAKING ILLUSTRATED, another book by the same editors that covers solely baking.
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Author: Guest
Without a single author attached to this book, what do these editors know about cooking and recipes? I have not heard of any of these editors write a cooking article. I'm a full-time freelance writer with one book to my credit so I know good writing when I see it.
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Author: Guest
I have several hundred Cookbooks, and I love this book the Meatloaf is the Fantastic. The recipe is what I considered old fashioned but everyone young and old love it.......
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Author: Guest
This is a marvellous books in every way. I have a big collection of books but I keep returning to this one. Why? Because it has such a broad range of issues and tips and because it is based on the experiences of several chefs. Buy it and you will start to amaze everybody around you.
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Author: Guest
The recipes never fail. If it comes from this it will be good. don't look for innovative exciting new recipes. Just the standards (new and old) that you can modify to your hearts content. Learn how to cook and why certain techniques and ingredients work so perfectly, not just a list of recipes and ingredients.
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