American Classics: More Than 300 Exhaustively Tested Recipes For America's Favorite Dishes

This is the best American classic cookbook ever! I love the experimental approach they document for each and every recipe. I've made about 10 things out of this book so far and every one has been fantastic! I made a roast turkey for Thanksgiving just as they described, brined and stuffed, and it was the best turkey I've ever made. This is my number one recipe book now!

This couldn't be your only cookbook, but almost. It covers many of the recipes that you use on a regular basis, and tells you how to make them great, and WHY you need to do what it says. The books Cook's puts out would be wonderful for a beginner cook - you might as well start out doing it the right way. I only wish they had been around when I was a kid. And if you haven't yet, you should catch their tv show on PBS.

Another Book by the Editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine "American Classics" where they make 28 Lemon Meringue Pies to find the Best Version for you to eat or How do you Roast a Turkey so the Breast Meat stays juice. The kitchens of Cook's Illustrated conducted thousands of Tests so we can Cook Traditional American Classics without having any Problems at Home. Over 300 Recipes with many Illustrations all in Black and White, no Color Pictures except for 8 Pages with 16 full Color Photographs Grouped-Together of some of the Dishes. Besides the Recipes the Book has many Illustrated Suggestions in how to: Shred a Head of Cabbage, Segmenting an Orange, Slicing Avocados, Preparing Fennel, Mincing Shallots, Steaming Clams for Chowder... and Dozens More.The American Classics Cookbook has many Chapters: Soups and Stews, Salads, Vegetables, Pasta, Grains and Beans, Beef, Pork and Lamb, Poultry, Fish and Shellfish, Yeast Breads, Rolls and Pizzas, Sandwiches, Quick Breads, Muffins and Biscuits, Eggs and Breakfast, Cookies, Brownies and Bars, Cakes, Pies, Crisps, Cobbler and other Fruit Desserts and PuddingsI have made many Recipes from the Cookbook, each Recipe has an Explanation or History about the Dish. Many of the Recipes have been done in other Cook's Illustrated Books, I've got several of them and I can see Familiar Dishes repeating again. I always wanted to try to make Fried Chicken with 2 Quarts of Buttermilk needed for the Chicken Brine, to find out there's was a lot of work involved and my Family and I didn't care for the "Crispy Fried Chicken" I made "Coconut Cream Pie" which is one of my Favorites, I made it many times before since the Recipe its also in The America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book and also in The complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook of the ones We HaveThere are many Interesting Recipes, Southern Classics "Fried Green Tomatoes" is one of them and I wanted to make it, I used any Firm, under Ripe Tomato as suggested in the Recipe and I own the Well-Seasoned Cast-Iron Skillet so I started to fry the Tomato Slices and they were very Good, Crispy due to the Fine-textured Cornmeal, not a single Fried Tomato Sliced left. Many New Recipes and some Old Ones with a New Twist in American Classics Cookbook. The Cookbook Paper is very yellow, low quality with that small tiny Print very common in these Books, the Measuring Numbers in the List of Ingredients are Hard to Read. American Classics has a Dish for everyone with Hundreds of Exhaustively Tested Recipes Once Again! ...Thank You D.D.

Bought this as a gift for a friend and he was amazed. He took it back to Italy and he loves the classic recipes. It had everything I grew up on and more! And since I'm a cook, I read through the recipes and approved! Lots of variety too!

So far, the recipes I've made are bland and not terribly interesting. Expected "more."

I have tried nearly every recipe in this cookbook. All of them came out well, and the explanations that come with the recipes are excellent.You can find more recipes in the Joy of Cooking, but you won't be as assured the food will taste good. Cooks Illustrated runs through several iterations to create the "perfect" recipe. Most of the ingredients are simple and readily available. The instructions are easy to follow.This is an excellent cookbook for inexperienced and experienced cooks alike.

Love this book! Tells you the whys and ways of cooking classic foods. The binding was dry so out it's trying to come loose, but that happens sometimes with old books. Still, glad I bought it. :-)

Not enough photos and the recipes are not that interesting. Not for me.

Good recipies and good descriptions, all the ones i've tried have worked out very well