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Old 01-30-2018, 08:25 AM   #1
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ATK Cookbook 2018

ATK = America's Test Kitchen

bought this big old cook book to be my go to basic recipe book... plus it has the recommendations from all the shows on gadgets appliances and ingredients to buy.

It covers from the first season through the current 2018 season.

Interestingly Christopher Kimball is scrubbed from the book. It is as if he is a non person.

Still a good cookbook and at 900 pages it doubles as a hell of a doorstop
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Old 01-30-2018, 08:52 AM   #2
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I have the complete set up to Kimball's"departure". I don't really care for either the At or milk street shows, so my collection of their books is pretty much as large as it's likely to get. They are fabulous cookbooks, focused on utility and not glossy photography. Meant to be used and not as coffee table books. If I had to recommend cookbooks to a newbie, I'd go first with Joy of Cooking and then Best Recipe 1&2, and the baking book. The Cook's Country big book is good too, but the recipes in it are a lot like the ones in Betty Crocker's cookbook. Not bad, just not my style most of the time.
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Look up Fannie's Last Supper on Netflix streaming. Kimball and the ATK crew create a dinner party solely from Fannie's cookbook, but only using the equipment from the time of the book and done in Victorian period dress. It's interesting and I think you would enjoy it, Jeff.
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I will try to find it

Milk Street has gotten better as the season has progressed, I think. ATK just seems off, sometimes it feels like it was lip synched after the filming. I always liked the testing of things on ATK as they were not so much into sponsors.

Now the cook book has the logos of their season sponsors on the inside back cover
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They had the last comprehensive cooking show that appealed to a broad audience of cooks, newbie to veteran. Now it's split into two niche publications.
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somewhere along the line it went off the tracks, just the wrong feel to it now.... kind of like they are cheerleaders. Maybe it is the food network effect
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Look up Fannie's Last Supper on Netflix streaming. Kimball and the ATK crew create a dinner party solely from Fannie's cookbook, but only using the equipment from the time of the book and done in Victorian period dress. It's interesting and I think you would enjoy it, Jeff.
Watched it via Amazon Prime... very good... amazing that it took 2 years to go from conception to the dinner.
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Yes, but how much Victorian cookware is still usable and available? I think that would take a lot of time to assemble and install. The clothes aren't as difficult, I would guess. Guess I need to watch it again, it's been a couple of years.

Kinda like my wooden shaft golf clubs. Too valuable to use, more suited for display. I have a bunch of my great grandmother's utensils from roughly that period, but I have them on display in a corner cabinet in my breakfast nook.
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one point they make repeatedly is that Fannie Farmer assumed her readers knew things we no longer need to know... like older hooves make firmer gelatin.

I cannot imagine cooking on a coal fired stove
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