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E DI TOR’S NOTE

Hi From

the Kitchen

HERE’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I GO
UPSTAIRS TO THE TEST KITCHEN: They
offer me something (delicious) to eat,
and then we sit down to go over their
recipe ideas. I tend to love everything
they suggest, and maybe you think there’s
a direct connection there: Feed Sarah,
and she’ll say yes to whatever we want
to do! I’m not going to lie—I love to eat their food—but I don’t think
that would work more than once (OK, maybe…three times?). The
Mainly, I say yes to the Test Kitchen staff’s ideas because they incomparable
Kate Merker
are smart, thoughtful, and creative cooks who have an amazing
runs the
ability to marry nutrition and flavor. But if anything does put Test Kitchen,
me in the mood to approve ideas, it’s actually not the food itself, and I’ll eat
but the warmth with which it’s offered. It’s second nature to anything she
tells me to.
the Test Kitchen staff to make a visitor—even one who is there
for meetings regularly—feel welcome, and that spills over to the
recipes they develop. They’re always looking out for you too.
This month their big idea, while not about making up new recipes,
came from that hospitable spirit. “How about a story on having a
cookbook club?” they asked me. “What’s that?” I asked. The answer
is on page 76: It’s like a book club, but instead of getting together
to talk about a novel, you all cook from the same
cookbook and have a party to eat together. After a
Try our new
lot of research and recipe testing, the Test Kitchen
chose five new cookbooks they think you’ll love. I cookbook for free!
Healthy Keto will be out in
hope you’ll try a cookbook club with your friends.
Think of us in our kitchen—we’re FROM TOP: MIKE GARTEN; PHILIP FRIEDMAN.
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