The new best recipe
by John Burgoyne, Carl Tremblay, Daniel Van Ackere · first published 2004
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A comprehensive cooking resource with over 1,000 recipes from America's Test Kitchen, 800 illustrations, step-by-step cooking tutorials, and hundreds of opinionated equipment and ingredient ratings. Gives a wealth of practice information about cooking almost anything.
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"The New Best Recipe" by Cook's Illustrated Magazine is a great cookbook along these lines. Before each recipe (and scattered throughout for niche techniques) the authors spend two-three pages explaining all the different…
on “Cooking Patterns” ↗And if you want it all in one place, an entire compendium of tried and tested recipes, pick up a copy of one of Cooks Illustrated's New Best Recipe books, even an older one. I have a copy from probably 5 years ago that seems to be out of print and can be had for $7 used. It's 900+ pages of well-tested recipes where each one has a narrative about…
on “How SEO Ruined the Internet” ↗On the one hand, I love my "New Best Recipe" cookbook, that has several paragraphs on the particular variety, whether it should be crunchy or soft, regional variations, common errors and the types of flaws they cause, and the science/chemistry…
on “Why you can’t tickle yourself” ↗I've got a shelf full of physical cookbooks -- The New Best Recipe, The Food Lab, an Ottolenghi book, On Food and Cooking, etc. I like them, I've read through all of them, I sometimes use them for inspiration. It's rare that I actually cook directly from them -- usually,…
on “Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app” ↗