Distraught about Gourmet Magazine

[Rosalind]

Yeah, Gourmet, Bon Appetit and one other (I forget the name) were all owned by one parent publisher that owns a lot of magazines, Conde Nast. They dumped Gourmet and a couple of their bridal magazines.

There's still Cook's Illustrated, which is really my favorite. Gourmet recipes were OK but every once in a while you'd get a clunker, usually when it came to side dishes. Their side dishes tended to be really side dishes only, not great enough to eat on their own. Cook's Illustrated is more consistent, every single recipe in there is stupid-proofed and so yummy that it can be eaten as a main course.

Both are better than Martha S. though. Her cakes are good, and her big meat roasts are fabulous, but that's about all she is really good at. Everything else she cooks is merely edible, not excellent. If I wanted merely edible, I have my trusty 1960s era Joy Of Cooking and Better Homes, replete with jello mold fruit salads and cream-of-something soup in every recipe.

 

[vfem]

These were lovely magazines I would see at my grandmother's house growing up. That woman was an amazing cook in the kitchen... and sometimes I wondered why she wasn't a magnificant chef at a popular restaurant. Than I become grateful that were the only one's to enjoy the wonderful meals!

(I wish my mother would have paid more attention in the kitchen growing up! LOL)

Anyways, you know I love to cook... even though I verr toward baking.

I know you will find something that touches you the way Gourmet does! Steven is right... with generations of change other magazines have come and gone, and you will probably find at least one that meet your philosophies!

I know I am head over heels for Mother Earth News, and without it I don't know what I would do. However, I also know, that before my time it was more about gardening and just being eco, especially in a less popular time. Now it has more issues with climate and population control... and some people find that to be too hard to swallow. Even I would prefer more recipes, gardening and food science. But I still love it!

((((((((((((((((((Heidi)))))))))))))))))))))

I'm just going to suggest that you frame your oldest copy and the last released copy. Something to look back on.

 

[HiDelight]

You know I realize there are many other mags that may be better may have more proven recipes ..but alas ..Gourmet was my first

thanks VFEM good idea!

I still have boxes of them around I need to figure out what to do with someday ..perhaps Chipmunk or his dad chipmunk sr will want them ...Chipmunk Sr is a sous chef and grew up with them as well