Meat, Poultry, Fish, Seafood
485 lbs. of red meat
375 lbs. of poultry, including wildfowl
80 lbs. of ham, sausage, bacon and other cured meats
275 lbs. of fish and seafood
Varieties of meats: beef, pork, lamb, goat, venison, boar, veal, bear, kidneys, sweetbreads, liver, tripe, oxtails, turtle, rabbit
Varieties of poultry: chicken, turkey, duck, pheasant, goose, squab, ostrich
Varieties of fish and seafood: salmon, red snapper, monkfish, whitefish, catfish, trout, lobster, oysters, mussels, clams, abalone, and an octopus
Varieties of cured meats: ham, bacon, salt pork, pancetta, prosciutto, Italian sausage, breakfast sausage, smoked hocks

Dairy and Eggs
250 dz. eggs (that's 3000)
400 lbs. butter
300 qts. milk
100 qts. cream
25 qts. buttermilk
50 lbs. cheese (over half was cream cheese; most of the balance was cheddar)

Dry Goods
700 lbs. assorted flours
500 lbs. assorted sugar
40 lbs. salt
50 lbs. dried beans
200 pkgs. dried yeast
75 lbs. shortening

Quantities of Food Produced
Over 100 loaves of bread
More than 100 dz. rolls and muffins
50 qts. of ice cream

Some Favorite Recipes
Pumpkin Chiffon Cake
Wine Braised Short Ribs
Bistro Salad
Pistachio Ice Cream
Baked Alaska
Madeleines
Bagels
Black Bottom Cupcakes
Chicken Chile Verde
Tomatillo Horseradish Sauce
Mustard Beef Rolls (Rouladen)
Gefilte Fish

NUMBER OF RECIPE TESTED: 4500
NUMBER OF RECIPE TESTERS: 31
NUMBER OF MAN HOURS: 8,798
LENGTH OF TESTING: 5/04 - 4/06, 24 MONTHS
NUMBER OF TESTING DAYS: 389
AVERAGE WEIGHT GAIN: 7 LBS.
AVERAGE AGE OF TESTER: 46.7 YRS.

Director of Test Kitchen: Suzen O'Rourke
Test Kitchen Coordinator: Hope-Marie Flamm
Cooking by the Book Testers: Tamara Bigelow, Donna Capobianco Boland, Jeanine Botsko, Larry Catanzaro, David Cerpa, Todd Coleman, Lauren Braun Costello, Howard Chapman, Sarah Copeland, David Domedion, Georgia Downard, Melissa Gaman, Tom Gelinne, Reid Green, Jan Hazerd, Lauren Huber, Christine Malloy, Hiromi Nobata, Maggie O'Dell, Ashley O'Neal, Joyce O'Neill, Kim Pistone, Larry Placek, Mary Placek, Lisa Porter, Andrea Potischman, Tim Shaw, Liliana Scali, Dianne Schwalb, Michele Scicolone, Rian Smolik, James Togba, Russell White and Miriam Wysoker
Special Assistants: Audrey, Danny, Clint, Mittens and Roberta