American Test Kitchen Recipes - The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook Every Home Should Have

My favorite family cookbook is home to American Test Kitchen recipes that are easy to follow and always produces an awesome tasting family meal at home. This article gives you a quick look at why this cookbook belongs in your home kitchen, and it will also help you find more information on the book and its authors.

Good old-fashioned "home cooking" is a hot and growing trend. From the brand new home chef, to the experienced head chef, every home kitchen needs a great cookbook! Your first and primary cookbook should not only be full of great recipes, but it should also provide you an education on food and cooking techniques.

The ONE cookbook every family and home should have

One of the best-selling cookbooks that every home should have is The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, by America's Test Kitchen. America's Test Kitchen is a company dedicated to researching, testing and publishing great recipes "that work". They produce a popular TV cooking show called "America's Test Kitchen", they publish several industry-leading magazines such as Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country, and last but not least they publish several best-selling cookbooks.

What separates this family cookbook from the others?

America's Test Kitchen is known for their exhaustive, well-structured testing approach. They take well-known recipes, apply different best practices and techniques throughout their testing, and ultimately come up with the one best recipe. It's common for them to test a recipe 30-50 times in order for their expert staff of chefs and tasters to determine one winning recipe.

Another great thing they do is share their key testing experience with you. They walk you through important points of their testing to help explain why they chose certain ingredients and applied certain techniques to come up with their best recipe. They strike a perfect balance between taste, quality, time, available ingredients to every home and simplicity. All of the American Test Kitchen recipes often take the easier techniques, as long as the end result produces a great tasting high-quality dish.

In addition to providing hundreds of recipes, this family cookbook also has little articles peppered throughout the book that provide helpful information, such as equipment testing, recommendations, cooking techniques and education on food and science. All of this together not only helps you cook great meals from the start, but it also helps you become a better cook over time.

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Review of Antique Coffee Grinders: American, English, and European

Both gorgeous and useful, "Antique Coffee Grinders", by Michael L. White, is a wonderful book for anyone wanting to build their collection of vintage household items - OR looking for the perfect coffee table book.

For the coffee table book bunch, it would be hard to imagine a more perfect piece. "Antique Coffee Grinders" weighs about 3 1/2 pounds and sports around 600 photographs (color), so while it isn't unwieldy, you'll know you've got something formidable in your hands when you pick it up - just holding it in your lap conveys the weight of coffee making history it recounts. Guests who enjoy their coffee (or who appreciate high quality, old fashioned house wares) are certain to enjoy paging through this book.

But charming as this book is, its true value is found in what it offers the collector of old fashioned (primarily antique) coffee grinders and mills. Chronicling more than 300 years worth of grinder history, the antique devotee will find an abundance of information to facilitate their quest for new pieces.

Make no mistake: "Antique Coffee Grinders" doesn't spell out where to shop for the real treasures. That is up to you. Online auctions, flea markets, garage sales or actual antique stores are all possibilities, and hopefully the hunt is part of the fun you get from collecting vintage items. Enjoy it!

But having found good sources for quality, old fashioned coffee grinders, one of any collector's biggest challenges is telling the difference between trash and treasure. That is where this book shines - providing enormously detailed information about the maker of any particular coffee mill and how much a well maintained coffee mill could be worth to the serious antique collector. Some collectors just like getting their mitts on anything old (and the older, the better), but if you gather these vintage pieces in order to build a portfolio with negotiable value, 'who made it', 'when they made it', 'where they made it', and 'how much someone might pay for it' are all critical bits of information. You'll have a difficult time finding a better resource than "Antique Coffee Grinders" to make sure you have those bits!

All in all, I have to say without qualification: this is a fine book. If you love good old fashioned coffee grinders - the real antique stuff - adding this to your library is a 'no-lose' move.

Nick Appert loves everything about the kitchen. Whether that be collecting antique coffee grinders and mills, reviewing turkey fryers, or just plain cooking - he's into it!

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