Staff Pick
With a nod to America's ever-growing ethnic blurring, Christopher Kimball presents a cookbook that mixes and matches various international spices and techniques to come up with modern recipes that build a new American cooking repertoire. Kimball's large fan base will not be surprised by the thoughtfully developed recipes, and will no doubt scurry to make room on their kitchen shelves for a new Kimball tome. However, with its big, bold photography, I bet some copies will become coffee table mainstays. Recommended By Tracey T., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Christopher Kimball, one of Epicurious' 100 Greatest Home Cooks of All Time, teaches a simple, bold, and healthy new way to cook.
"We want to change the way you cook."
For more than twenty-five years, Christopher Kimball has promised home cooks that his recipes would work. Now, with his team of cooks and editors at Milk Street, he promises that a new approach in the kitchen can elevate the quality of your cooking far beyond anything you thought possible.
Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, the first cookbook connected to Milk Street's public television show, delivers more than 125 new recipes arranged by type of dish: from grains and salads, to a new way to scramble eggs, to simple dinners and twenty-first-century desserts.
At Milk Street, there are no long lists of hard-to-find ingredients, strange cookware, or all-day methods. Skillet-charred Brussels sprouts, Japanese fried chicken, rum-soaked chocolate cake, Thai-style coleslaw, and Mexican chicken soup all deliver big flavors and textures without your having to learn a new culinary language.
These recipes are more than just good recipes. They teach a simpler, bolder, healthier way to cook that will change your cooking forever. And cooking will become an act of pure pleasure, not a chore.
Welcome to the new home cooking. Welcome to Milk Street.
Review
"Geeky gourmands will find Milk Street to be mandatory reading... Cultures collide on plates [and] layered spices unleash flavors just as well as slow cooking unlocks them."
Boston Herald
Review
"Overall gold... You already know and trust him from his years leading the way on America's Test Kitchen. Now, he's adding a different kind of spice to life... through his recipes and his research, he aims to connect us all."
Tasting Table
Review
"An intellectual and business powerhouse of American recipes."
Kim Severson, The New York Times
Review
"Bound to cause his fans to rejoice... even though its production values may be in the coffee-table league — a full-color image appears opposite every recipe — this book is designed for hard, occasionally sloppy, countertop duty. Recipes and accompanying photographs are contained on a single two-page spread, meaning that there is no frustrating flipping back and forth... The book fulfills its promise of sourcing the world's cuisines in search of flavor bombs that are made easy to produce in American kitchens."
The Wall Street Journal
Synopsis
Christopher Kimball, one of Epicurious' 100 Greatest Home Cooks of All Time, teaches a simple, bold, and healthy new way to cook.
"We want to change the way you cook."
For more than twenty-five years, Christopher Kimball has promised home cooks that his recipes would work. Now, with his team of cooks and editors at Milk Street, he promises that a new approach in the kitchen can elevate the quality of your cooking far beyond anything you thought possible.
Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, the first cookbook connected to Milk Street's public television show, delivers more than 125 new recipes arranged by type of dish: from grains and salads, to a new way to scramble eggs, to simple dinners and twenty-first-century desserts.
At Milk Street, there are no long lists of hard-to-find ingredients, strange cookware, or all-day methods. Skillet-charred Brussels sprouts, Japanese fried chicken, rum-soaked chocolate cake, Thai-style coleslaw, and Mexican chicken soup all deliver big flavors and textures without your having to learn a new culinary language.
These recipes are more than just good recipes. They teach a simpler, bolder, healthier way to cook that will change your cooking forever. And cooking will become an act of pure pleasure, not a chore.
Welcome to the new home cooking. Welcome to Milk Street.
About the Author
Chris Kimball founded Cook's Magazine in 1980; it has grown to a paid circulation of 1,000,000. He hosts America's Test Kitchen and Cook's Country, which are the top-rated cooking shows on public television, reaching 2 million viewers per week in over 94% of American households. Kimball is a regular contributor to both the Today Show and the CBS Early Show. He has been written up in most major newspapers, many national magazines, including The New Yorker and Time, and regularly contributes to NPR's Morning Edition, including doing a regular Thanksgiving segment. He will also host a public radio show on cooking starting in the fall of 2010.