Customer Reviews

The Best Soups & Stews (Best Recipe)

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My favorite cookbook is The New Best Recipe from America's Test Kitchen. My husband loves soup, so when I saw this cookbook from my favorite cookbook writers, I snatched it up. I was disappointed to discover a lot of the same recipes that I already have in The New Best Recipe's chapter on soup. Still, it's a great cookbook on its own merits.

If you like soups, this is the book for you. It explains in great detail from start to finish. I recommend this highly if you like healthy, nutritious and delicious cuisine.

My husband says, "Cook's Illustrated provides the best in-depth analysis of any recipe, the things you want and need to know. Everything I have cooked out of this book turned out to be wonderful, and reading how they got there and all the things they tried is extremely interesting. The only drawback I can see on the series is the recipes are adapted to American taste expectations so some increase in herbs and spices may prove beneficial. But follow the original recipe at least once. The other thing I noticed, being the owner of five of their cookbooks, is that you will find overlap between the books. That, however, can not really be avoided and is definitely not a major detraction. The introduction to the recipes is the stuff of bedtime reading." I say everything he has done out of it is terrific.

If making soups is what you like to do, like me, then this is the book for you. What I also like about this book is the authors go into great detail in how they arrive a particular recipe, which I find very interesting. I highly recommend this book.

So far I've made a few recipes and they are great... I have almost all of the Cooks Illustrated books and I've found that if you follow their advice you won't be disappointed. Their recipes are tried and true.

This typically superb Cook's Illustrated effort. Filled with extra goodies from best buys for knives to how the decisions were made on the recipes, this cookbook is a gem. I learned more about curries and their preparation here than in all the reading in my other cookbooks.

Have tried 2 of the soup and the beef stew recipe. I don't have much time to spend in the kitchen and it is a pleasure to use these recipes which have been tried and tweeked to perfection. I would recommend this book to anyone which will save you a lot of disappointments.

This book lives up to the high regard I have for the Cooks Illustrated books. It not only gives good recipes, it teaches you to COOK!!! Reminds me of the saying that if you give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but teach him to fish and . . .

I was excited when I received my book "The Best Soups & Stews. I was disapointed that there was not any colored photos of the soups and stews in this book. I have yet to try these recipes, but I know they will be good. I have tried Editors of Cook's Illustrated recipes in my other book and they are excellent.
This book does give a lot of information on each of the soups, maybe too much like a mini novel.
I would recommend this book, but if you like colored photo's this is not the one to purchase.

Watching America's Test Kitchen has tempted me to buy the cookbooks but the costs have always been too high. I am buying the soup and stew one just because it is the lowest price for a new copy.