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- Number of issues: 6
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Cook's Country Magazine Review
by: Dan Joseph - CookingZines.com Editor
So you love to cook. You love to read about cooking, and you enjoy finding out the best recipes for your family’s favorite foods. But you’re no gourmet and your kids are picky. A magazine that doesn’t offer you kid and family friendly recipes just won’t cut it in your house.
The recipes you prepare need to be simple and fuss-free.
For you, we suggest Cook’s Country. It’s a cross between Cook’s Illustrated (which is by the same publisher) and Taste of Home, but with a slightly more gourmet twist than Taste of Home because the same professional staff who work on Cook’s Illustrated work on this magazine.
But it veers from the feel of Taste of Home thanks to its easy-to-follow layout and instructions and its emphasis on extensive testing. Just like with Cook’s Illustrated, the chefs and cooks who work on recipes for this magazine test and re-test recipes until they feel confident they’ve come up with the “best” recipe.
With a variety of family favorites featured in this magazine, you’re sure to find something even your pickiest eater will enjoy. In fact, we give it an enthusiastic thumbs up, with a rating of four out of five stars.
The “homey” feel is the real draw of this magazine. With its primary emphasis on “country cooking”, this magazine is comfort food at its finest. Some recipes you might find include things like Boston baked beans, open-faced sandwiches, macaroni and cheese, and barbecued pork loin.
We like this magazine because it’s reader friendly; it appeals to a wide array of readers thanks to its variety and quality of recipes; the recipes are stuff you’ll actually want to cook; and the editors like reader feedback. They often ask for recipe submissions (and even offer a cash prize if your recipe is selected) and they ask readers to submit ideas for various categories.
For example, if many months from now the magazine will be featuring barbecue recipes, the magazine might ask you to submit problems you’ve had – maybe instead of getting nicely caramelized, your grilled peaches just burned. You can submit this problem and see if they address your concern in the future.
Like Cook’s Illustrated this magazine contains no advertising. Therefore, the subscription cost is a bit higher than you might expect to pay for 6 annual issues, but we like that the issues are all well produced and they include so many step-by-step instructions, it’s like getting a mini cookbook with each issue.
But it’s not all about recipes. We think of it as being all about the kitchen. You can find product reviews in the magazine and they will also sometimes review things you use to make their recipes (like boxed broth or vegetable steamers). This makes the magazine even more useful to the home cook.
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