America￯﾿ﾽs Test Kitchen is a real place a working kitchen that is home to Cook￯﾿ﾽs Illustrated magazine as well as the public television cooking series of the same name. At America￯﾿ﾽs Test Kitchen, we take nothing for granted and test everything. Whether we￯﾿ﾽre investigating the quality of price-club beef tenderloin (yes, it￯﾿ﾽs just as good as mail-order beef that costs four times as much!) or developing a foolproof method for saut￯﾿ﾽing shrimp, our goal is simple: reliable recipes and practical information that will help you become more successful in the kitchen. Two-dozen cooks and editors taste, critique, rate, and evaluate recipes, equipment, and ingredients all day long in our test kitchen. As we are fond of saying in the test kitchen, "we do all the testing and make all the mistakes first so you don￯﾿ﾽt have to." More than 120 exhaustively-tested, foolproof recipes. Hundreds of hand-drawn illustrations with step-by-step technique instructions. 175 photographs in 26 chapters will take you right into the action. See our test cooks prepare gumbo or reinvent barbecued chicken in a skillet. The science of cooking explained: We tell you how and why recipes work to help you become a better cook.