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cook's illustrated

re: cooking magazine recommendation request at heckasac, I mentioned the only cooking magazine I occasionally bother to read.

I really like Cook's Illustrated; it's ad-free and has prettily drawn illustrations; they're in-depth and I like their kind-of-scientific approach, which often involves trying a bunch of brands of a key recipe ingredient and reporting their opinions of it. Also, their recipes aren't impossibly fancy.