America's Test Kitchen

Adam skipped work this morning to join me and the Sloan Tasting Club for a tour of America's Test Kitchen. The test kitchen where the show is taped and the magazine operations for Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country are located right near the Brookline Village T stop on the Green D line in an unassuming brick building where their office suite is called "Boston Common Press." Walk up a few flights of stairs and you get a giant professional test kitchen, a library of cookbooks, giant life sized cow and pig to demonstrate the different cuts of meat, etc. Adam was hoping we'd get a discount at the "gift shop" and he wanted one of those cards that summarized what products they like the best so you can buy the best canned tomatoes. While there was no gift shop and thus no discount, Adam did get his shopping card and we all got a FREE cookbook to boot.