The Complete Guide to Healthy Drinks: Powerhouse Ingredients, Endless Combinations

by America's Test Kitchen

Your one-stop guidebook to healthy hydration with 160 recipes for expense-saving, sugar-sparing, all-natural beverages. It captures the test kitchen's discoveries and best techniques for juicing, brewing, smoothie making, fermenting, and more.

You'll appreciate knowing why our blends work and what each ingredient brings to the table. Try a zucchiña colada, lemongrass and star fruit infused water, and tepache, a flavorful fermented drink made from the rind of a pineapple.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Nonfiction

272 pages, Hardcover

Published December 13, 2022

About the author

America's Test Kitchen, based in a brand new state-of-the-art 60,000 sq. ft. facility with over 15,000 sq. ft. of test kitchens and studio space, in Boston's Seaport District, is dedicated to finding the very best recipes for home cooks. Over 50 full-time (admittedly obsessive) test cooks spend their days testing recipes 30, 40, up to 100 times, tweaking every variable until they understand how and why recipes work. They also test cookware and supermarket ingredients so viewers can bypass marketing hype and buy the best quality products. As the home of Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country magazines, and publisher of more than one dozen cookbooks each year, America's Test Kitchen has earned the respect of the publishing industry, the culinary world, and millions of home cooks. America's Test Kitchen the television show launched in 2001, and the company added a second television program, Cook's Country, in 2008.

Discover, learn, and expand your cooking repertoire with Julia Collin Davison, Bridget Lancaster, Jack Bishop, Dan Souza, Lisa McManus, Tucker Shaw, Bryan Roof, and our fabulous team of test cooks!

Learn more at https://www.americastestkitchen.com/.

Reviews

[Isabel Hinen · Rating 3 out of 5]

All in all, I have mixed feelings about America's Test Kitchen. They're not my favorite brand because they're geared more towards high-class chefs than down-home cooking. However, if you want a recipe that you KNOW will turn out well (if you follow all 16 intricate steps) then ATK is your best friend. So this book was okay but not amazing or anything.

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

We get lots of greens and other veggies from a farm share, so I make a lot of smoothies. I was getting into a rut, so I was happy to encounter this book. It had some really fun combinations that hadn’t occurred to me.

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this book. It’s filled with helpful tips and how to’s and tasty recipes in several categories.

Smoothies
Juices
Teas & Tisanes
Flavored Waters
Syrups & Sodas
Fermented Drinks

I like that America’s Test Kitchen goes in depth on what products you need to achieve a good juice, or perfect a tasty syrup.

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[Dray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book. Americas Test Kitchen produces a lot of really excellent focused books and this is one of them. Lots of guidance on equipment, process, storage etc. smoothies, juices, teas, infusions, tonics etc. gives lots of variations and I always love the why this recipe works intro. Worthwhile.

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

After a trip to an all-inclusive in Mexico and drinking about 30 mocktails -- this book is an excellent mocktail and healthy drink guide. Like most cook books form the American Test Kitchen, it has great photos, easy to follow recipes and most ingredients are available from the supermarket.

[Cynde Veale · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wide variety of drinks and ingredients. Anyone should be able to find a recipe or inspiration to try something new in healthy drinks.

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