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Publisher: Boston Common Press
Category: Magazine
List Price: $35.70
Buy New: $26.95
You Save: $8.75 (25%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 99
Format: Magazine Subscription
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 6
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 6
First Issue Lead Time: 12-16 Weeks
ASIN: B000069YW9
Release Date: June 28, 2002
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 4 months
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Product Description
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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 Cook's Magazine August 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.
 Great magazine, terrible delivery on first issue August 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.
 Not for the casual cook August 1, 2008
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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.
A must have magazine June 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.
No other cookbooks required!! June 4, 2008
This cookbook along with the 30 minute cookbook has replaced all my other cookbooks with the rare exception of a Tyler Florence recipe here and there. Love it. Just to know that they have extensively tested these recipes and worked them out scientifically is so reassuring. You know before even starting that they are not going to be a waste of time and money like so many recipes I've tried along the way. Thanks.
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