Tired of Boring Tossed Green salads but stumped for new ideas? Do your mashed potatoes often come out gluey? Does your rice pilaf scorch on the bottom and stick to the pan? Are the hors d'oeuvres you make for parties too much work for too little reward? The editors of Cook's Illustrated have experienced these problems and hundreds more, and they've gone into the test kitchen to solve them. So what you'll find in Best American Side Dishes are 500 exhaustively tested recipes that make side dishes nearly foolproof. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.