Cook’s Illustrated has been an invaluable resource for me — not for it’s excellent recipes and guides, but for 
the equipment reviews that are posted in every issue. It’s a bi-monthly magazine, but there are more than enough recipes in every issue to last for the two months you’ll wait for the next issue.
Cook’s Illustrated is by the same people who do the excellent America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook and its corresponding PBS television series. Each issue is a wonderful addendum to the cookbook’s recipes and kitchenware guides. There is also an exhaustive website that posts charts and equipment reviews in an archive.
A subscription to Cook’s Illustrated is not cheap by any magazine standards, but this is a resource that I really can’t live without.
Buy a Cook’s Illustrated subscription from Amazon.com.
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October 24th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
I agree that Cook’s Illustrated is an invaluable resource and I find their equipment reviews particularly useful. In fact, if I’m considering a kitchen equipment purchase I always read what they have to say about it. I don’t subscribe to the magazine (although I should because I buy it frequently enough that a subscription would probably be cheaper) but I do subscribe to their website which allows me to search for recipes and check equipment reviews.
October 25th, 2007 at 12:01 am
@Julie: The website is probably a better overall resource, since it has pretty much everything dating back for years and years, and it’s searchable. Having it in your hand is a nice feeling, though.
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:34 pm
Sweet Details I love a few of the articles that have been written, and especially the comments posted! I will come back!