Cook’s Country Television will debut next month, presumably on PBS. The program’s a companion to Cook’s Country magazine, a sister publication of Cook’s Illustrated which has produced America’s Test Kitchen for PBS for several years.
Little else is known. There’s no information at pbs.org and all that’s found at the Cook’s Country website is a notice the show is coming and a contest to win a trip to watch a taping in Vermont. I wonder if it will be taped at publisher Christopher Kimball’s country house?
With its Cook’s Illustrated pedigree and commitment to recipes that work, I think the program will be worth checking out. Cook’s Country magazine was launched in 2005 and features, in Kimball’s words, “quick, easy, weeknight meals, and long-remembered, yet lost recipes handed down from generations past.” Recipes from readers are sometimes used after, I assume, a run through the test kitchen.
I’ll confess I’ve never bought the magazine, but I would if I were just learning to cook. I’ve leafed through it and while the product testing is appealing, not enough recipes challenge me. I have just subscribed to the website, though. As a subscriber to the Cook’s Illustrated site I was offered a one-year trial for $12.50, which is half price. I spotted a couple interesting baking recipes and will be interested to see if or how the site develops — and how much is free — once the program’s on the air.
