There’s nothing more motivating to a new cook than a collection of recipes that always work. Ideal for people of any age who want to learn to cook, The Beginner Cook collection features books that lay the foundation for a lifetime of great cooking. America’s Test Kitchen is known for its detailed approach to recipes—developing them, testing them, explaining them. Step-by-step illustrations, recipe variations, solid techniques and convenient shortcuts, unbiased ingredient tastings, and kitchen equipment and gadget ratings start new cooks out with every advantage in the kitchen.
THE GIFT SET INCLUDES:
The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook
A cooking tutorial bound in a sturdy five-ring binder, The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook covers every course, from appetizers to desserts, and includes chapters on breakfast, sandwiches, sauces and condiments, and beverages. Friendly and to-the-point test kitchen tip boxes accompany the recipes and point out either where a home cook might go wrong, or a special technique or ingredient that makes the recipe successful. Helpful charts (like primers on steaming vegetables and cooking grains) and Cooking 101 pages (covering topics like brining meats, buying cheeses, and how to prepare crudités) make this a reference unlike any other.
• 1200+ recipes
• 736 pages, ringbound hardcover
• 1500 color photos
The America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking Book
This comprehensive ring-bound cookbook demystifies for all home bakers the many pitfalls that can plague beginning and even experienced pie makers, bread bakers, and cake creators. The America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book delivers the foolproof recipes, step-by-step instructions, and troubleshooting guides that have become the hallmark of America's most trusted test kitchen. For anyone who has made pie dough that seems impossible to roll out, bread that doesn't rise, or a birthday cake they were less than proud to serve, this book will be a lifesaver as well as a life-long and trusted baking companion.
• 700 Recipes
• 552 pages, ringbound hardcover
• 1200 200 step-by-step and finished photographs
The America’s Test Kitchen Healthy Family Cookbook
The America's Test Kitchen Healthy Family Cookbook delivers more than 800 foolproof recipes for healthier everyday cooking—including breakfast dishes, kid-friendly favorites, meat and pasta entrées, vegetarian dishes, healthy makeovers of family classics, desserts, and more. Each recipe also includes Calories, Fat, Saturated Fat, Cholesterol, Carbohydrates, Protein, Fiber, and Sodium counts. This all-purpose cookbook will help new cooks establish good habits when they shop, eat, and cook—habits that will deliver a big payoff over a lifetime of healthy eating.
• 800 Recipes
• 528 pages, ringbound hardcover
• 900+ pages of color photos
The Best Simple Recipes
Most quick recipe collections promise a lot, but deliver very little. Bland, uninspired dishes may be fast, but would anyone want to cook them again? With years of experience and thousands of recipe tests behind us, our team has developed more than 200 approachable, foolproof recipes that can be at the table in 30 minutes or less—and every single dish delivers on flavor. By combining steps, minimizing pans, and employing a little test kitchen trickery, we’ve made naturally fast recipes even faster, and in some cases shaved hours off the cooking time of traditionally long-cooking dishes.
200+ Recipes
352 pages, paperback
90+ pages of color photos
