I completely agree with you re: CK @ Test Kitchen
the business model was then and still might be an abomination.
I also learned a lot from the early days of Test Kitchen , as I find watching chef cook improves my own Technique
Jacque Pepin and all done the line.
I have a large number of the very early Test Kitchen Books
as way way back in time , Google and a pay system w Amazon that brought me these books
for ' price to me ' < 40 % cover ' not 40 % off
and I enjoyed reading them
there was some sort of Big Time Spat w the owners of TestKitchen and CK
that has been resolved , and I can't fine the dirt about it
Milk Street has different PBS videos than Test Kitchen : international , not so much Pork Chops V 37.
I get the MS magazine out of the library , and its fairly interesing
I have the two books as e-books , and have checked them out of the library
Id say you will enjoy the two books , as they have international flavo(u)r
sending money to CK , sell
maybe , as you are an e-book person
get those ?
the Milk Street magazine is quite nice
but dups out the books.
F.D.: Im able to cap all the local PBS cooking shows into my iMac
I edit them to make them smaller , and have them all
I have HardDrives that are replicating like Rats.
P.S.: I think the MilkStreet business model is a bit different then the older Test Kitchen.
it seem to rely more on " The Web "
a subscription gets you everything and the MilkStreet Proper place
has ' Cooking School ' and various celebrity chefs invited to do the same there.
if you had all the magazines , and I do not think there are e-zines
there would be no dups on the two books
I do not know if all that is in the magazines are in the both books.
if it would not drive me crazy , based on History
Id really would enjoy a subscription to Milk Street magazine
on deep sale.
but my library system has it
so Im fine with that.
