Food Magazines

[thumpershere2]

I receive the Cooking Club magazine " Cooking Pleasures " and Food and Family by Kraft. Really don't care for the real fancy cooking mags.

[Corinne]

Cook's Country is very good. Paula Deen's magazine is great, too. I buy a lot of Reiman Publications (Taste of Home, etc.) as yearbooks at the end of the year - the books contain all of the recipes from the past years' magazines. I do the same with Cook's Illustrated.
And I buy a lot of the little cooking magazines that are sold at the check out - Pillsbury & Betty Crocker, mostly, along with anything that concentrates on appetizers!

[VeraBlue]

Gourmet, Bon Appetit and Cuccina Italiana. My (ex) husband ordered something recently that gave him three free magazine subscriptions. He signed me up for Food &Wine and one other wine mag. I get a couple of trade mags at work, too.

[lyndalou]

SHPJ4, We have Borders here in Fl., and I have been to one in Maryland and another in Virginia. Guess they are pretty much all over.

I don't subscribe to any food magazines, but do get Martha Stewart's Living and Southern Living as well as Good Housekeeping. I get the Krafts Food Magazine as well, but there are (of course) too many high fat and high carb recipes in it for me.

[bullseye]

The only one I still subscribe to is Cook's Illustrated; I like the fact that they accept no advertising, so I feel like the reviews may be less biased. Their recipes tend to be tailored to New Englander's taste buds, but that can always be adjusted. I used to get Gourmet but, as others have pointed out, they have gotten too snooty for my taste. When I see it on the shelf, I like to grab La Cucina Italiana for their ideas using fresh, Mediterranean style veggies.

[Food Inventors]

Another vote for Cook's Illustrated but my favorite is Fine Cooking. Their recipes are always GREAT. They include basics and interesting recipes and unlike other mags (Gourmet, Bon Apettit), I think they actually test the recipes.

[Claire]

I, too, am giving up my subscription for Gourmet after 20 yrs. It simply has moved out of my lifestyle -- it seems that it's for the rich & famous -- mostly about a "resort" lifestyle or "my 300 year old farm house in Tuscany." I like Saveur more for cultural reading than recipes.

[Robo410]

cooks Illustrated and kitchen and cook ... no adds, great articles. recipes, etc.

I was given gourmet and have enjoyed it, more for tourism artcles on places than for recipes ... I have the 1000page plus cookbook with an index...I'm gonna thumb thru old magazines in hopes of finding a recipe???

I have also gotten trials of many others that I won't renew. But I may do a year of the two that started this thread Saveur and ArtCulinair...sounds interesting.

[Mark Webster]

Since I get a professional discount when ordering them I get bombarded by magazines monthy. I guess I would start with Saveur - I like the way they check out techniques and restaurants from around the globe, Gourmet - for home use, Food Art - to keep up-todate on trends, Plate - because I enjoy seeing what my competition is up to, Restaurant Hospitality - because of their numerous articles on trends and how to start up restaurant, The Culinary Review (ACF Sponsored) - great stories and whats happening in the American Culinary Federation and the list goes on. Some months I can't even get through an edition before the next months shows up.
Chef Mark
chefskills101.com

[Harborwitch]

I think I've gotten Bon Appetite for over 30 years. Now I also get Saveur, Cuisine at Home, Cooking Pleasures, Food Arts, and the Kraft magazine. I also rotate Chile Pepper, Intermettzo, Cuccinia Italiana. There are 4 or 5 more I'd love to get - but living on a boat makes it really hard. There's no place to keep them.