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Cook's Country
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Sales Rank: 780
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List Price: $29.70
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About this Title
Cook's Country's large size, full-color, ad-free, reader-defined approach offers a distinct guide to country cooking. Packed with succulent recipes, equipment resources, "how-to" guides for those challenging dishes, and much more, Cook's Country will have your home-cooked meal turning out perfectly.
Product Description
Cook's Country's large size, full-color, ad-free, reader-defined approach offers a distinct guide to country cooking. Packed with succulent recipes, equipment resources, "how-to" guides for those challenging dishes, and much more, Cook's Country will have your home-cooked meal turning out perfectly.
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
I not only enjoy cooking and eating, I like reading about food, including a close perusal of every issue of _Cook's Illustrated._ And as a charter subscriber, I took advantage of their offer of a free copy of the premiere issue of this new sister publication. Even though I have considerable respect for Christopher Kimball's editorial abilities, I think he's made several serious errors this time. The idea is to give coverage to "country food," by which he appears to mean home-cooking. "It's not about fancy cooking or expensive restaurants or foods with names you can't pronounce." But isn't that exactly the philosophy behind _Cook's Illustrated?_ Every dish deconstructed and reinvented in the original magazine is also home-cooking. That's exactly why I enjoy it, why I end up trying at least half the recipes in each issue. Also like CI, this magazine analyzes in depth a relatively few recipes -- the first issue includes pot roast, chocolate pudding, fried chicken, and green beans, among others -- and follows the method of testing-to-destruction to discover which variations and options really are the best. There's also a "Mystery Tool" column and a kitchen-questions page and a couple of consumer advisory sections (this time it's the best bottled Italian salad dressing and the best slow cooker). The main differences are the inclusion of a section of tear-out recipe cards in the center of the magazine, à la _Family Circle,_ and an excessively cutesy-homespun design sense. Also a couple of pages of readers' kitchen memories, both good and bad. They also use color throughout the magazine, unlike Cook's Illustrated. So why publish this new title when most of the contents seem to be simply overflow from their flagship publication? And -- perhaps the greatest error, in my opinion -- someone decided this magazine should be published in a 10" by 12" format. It's much too tall to fit on the shelf with my copies of _Cook's Illustrated_ and _Gourmet_ and most of my cookbooks. I hate that.
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