Cooks Country and its sister show and publication America’s Test Kitchen from PBS are frequent entrants to our food media diet.  Fronted for years by Chris Kimball and his bow-tie this TV show and semi-monthly cooking magazine have focused on improving: home cooking, nailing down recipes, and test kitchen gadgets (sound familiar?).  Chris moved on last year in a bit of an ugly split for both parties.  However, worried lovers of the publications need not worry.  Cooks Country and America’s test Kitchen have continued with basically the same cast, format, and approach as before.

In TV form that typically means 1- 2 recipes tested and perfected in the course of an episode.  A taste testing segment, typically of pre-package ingredients.  Think organic canned tomatoes, or sour krauts.  As well as a segment testing some sort of kitchen gadget.  I find the last segment very helpful for picking items to buy for the @TheRealCFO‘s kitchen, they have only once steered me wrong and that was on a stick blender. The taste test segments are equally as successful in steering us to the right ingredients with which to stock the pantry.

It should be noted though these are not slickly produced Food Network shows.  Nor are the associated publications big glossy affairs.  These are bare bones content filled items that can really get you headed in the direction of better cooking. We hope you enjoy these publication as much as we do.

Cooks Country can be found here on the web