Peanut butter cookie follow-up

As expected, the recipe out of the New Best Recipe is great. Love them. Great peanut flavor, a little chewy, not the least bit sandy. I'm sorry, Alton, I enjoy your show, but I'm now a little leery of trying out the rest of the recipes in your cookbook.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: if you want to know how to cook something, without any guesswork, BUY THIS BOOK.

For those of you who are already converts to the Cook's Illustrated family of cookbooks and magazines, I'll let you in on a little secret: there's a companion to NBR coming out sometime around the beginning of October, More Best Recipes:

Incidentally, on a related note, there was a great article about the man behind CI, Christopher Kimball, in this past Sunday's Boston Globe Magazine. Check it out. They also include his Top Five Kitchen Tips.