My friend refers to all comic book stores* as “the geek store.” This never fails to come to mind (in an admittedly tangled way) whenever I receive a Cooks Illustrated in the mail because if there’s a comic book equivalent for food geeks, this has got to be it.
I don’t know enough to be a food geek, but I do love everything about Cooks Illustrated: its no-ads black-and-white seriousness; Kimball’s Vermont-weird editor letters; the bursting-with-pride Notes from Readers with solutions to common house-hold challenges; and the thorough products tests at the back.
For the May/June issue, the product being tested is hot sauce.
