cookieee
Sous Chef
Hi, just wondering.
What cooking magazines do you buy or subscribe to and what do you think of it/them?
What cooking magazines do you buy or subscribe to and what do you think of it/them?
I get Cooks Illustrated. Along with the one for the Country.
I tried to watch Milk Street. Although recipes are mostly as stated International. Unfortunately Kimble hasn't learned his lesson. The reason he was let go from ATK was his refusal to make any changes to the presentation of a recipe. So they placated him with his own show.
ATK has now become quite a conglomerate. A lot of the kitchen chefs have been made Editor in Chief. Just looking at the final run of who's who, and you can see what I mean.
I stopped getting Paper magazines many years ago as they were mostly ads and I had no interest in half the content.
Now I visit their websites and can see just what I want and don't have to deal with all the rest. I don't bother with sites that you have to pay to visit.
Funny thing cookieee - I was just thinking of starting a thread to as if there are any other Milk Street fans out there!
I have subscribed to MS since they started, and I really like it. A friend who started it at the same time didn't renew - she didn't like the fact that "many, if not most" of the recipes called for ingredients that she didn't have. I can see her point, but that is probably one of the things that I like about it - most of the recipes are international recipes, which are the types of things I cook all the time. Often there are simpler recipes, as with desserts, but they are still different and unique, and sometimes interesting tips on cooking methods, as Kimble did on ATK.
I have a digital subscription, and one of the things that I get are frequent recipes in email, with the first one or two "free", to those with no subscription. Sometimes I have posted the link to forums when it looks really good - only free for 2 weeks, but if it looks good to anyone they can copy it.
Other magazines I haven't subscribed to in recent years, except when I'd get them free or almost free with a purchase. You have to be careful with those - go into your account right away, and turn off the automatic resubscription.
I used to like Cooks Illustrated, but after many years, recipes seemed to be more or less the same thing, sometimes complicated even more, to get the so called "perfect" recipe. I got a free subscription a couple of years ago, and liked it better - they seemed to have changed for the better, and I was seeing more interesting tips.
I used to like Saveur, but it seems to have fewer recipes, and more ads than it used to. Bon apétit used to be better, too, but I currently have a free sub to it, so I didn't pass it up! Food and Wine I got free, but was not impressed with it, and probably wouldn't even take it free again.
Joel, I sooo agree with you about Food and Wine. I just could not relate to it.I still get Bon Apetit, but I won’t be renewing, although I still like thumbing through it. I used to get Food and Wine, but I got really tired of their articles about restaurants in foreign countries that I’ll never get a chance to visit, and reviews of American restaurants to which I’d never be able to get a reservation, let alone afford. Food Network never floated my boat either.
I’d like to get ATK and Cook’s Country. I just can’t afford it right now.
Exactly the same answer from me.^ I also refuse to pay sites like the New York Times for their recipes.
Thanks cookieee, I bookmarked it for later.Kayelle, I did a quick search of our local paper. There are over 25,000 recipes that I believe are free.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/search/dispatcher.front?Query=Recipes&target=all&spell=on
Me, too! Paper magazines, real bound books from the library (picked up three today) - it's a tactile thing. Some people like sleeping under weighted blankets, I like the heft of a "real" book or magazine and Ottolenghi's most recent, "Ottolenghi simple : a cookbook" sure is a heavy one!The reason I subscribe to the paper copy of Cooks Illustrated is that I enjoy reading a paper copy sometimes...