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Default Opinion of "Baking Illustrated" cookbook

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 23:23:39 -0700, "Kent" > wrote:

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>"deepeddygirl" > wrote in message
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>>I just got an offer in an email to save 50% if I order this cookbook before
>>1/1/06. It's normally $35 so it would be $17.50. Has anyone here ever
>>ordered one of the "Cooks Illustrated" cookbooks? Here is a link:
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>> http://www.cooksillustrated.com/book...il.asp?PID=308
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>> TIA!

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>I've been a subscriber for years. I bought one edition of the book and felt
>it was only a restatement of the previously published magazine. If you have
>read the magazine and keep it, don't buy it. Why buy it twice? The magazine
>is well indexed, so you shouldn't have to. It will only confuse.
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I happen to agree on this. Nothing new offered in the books that
wasn't in the magazines.

Boron