Your favorite foodie mag to buy/subscribe to....

Epicurean Exploits - Food and Recipes
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Your favorite foodie mag to buy/subscribe to…

  • Saveur
  • Food and Wine
  • Gourmet
  • Bon Appetit
  • Cucina Italiana
  • Cook’s Illustrated Magazine
  • Other

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I’m always looking for cool ideas, sources, recipes (although usually just a pic is enough for me to figure something out), and I do enjoy perusing the food rags.
My fave is probably Saveur, although I’ve always had great admiration for Ruth Reichl and her being at the helm of Gourmet (along with former Saveur Editor Coleman Andrews) keeps me reading that as well.

My least favorite is probably Cook’s for number of reasons, not the least of which is what I feel is it’s Consumer Reports approach.

I have a good professional background in culinary, I was a kitchen dog for almost 18 years, so I go more for content than fluff.

What say you?

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I’ve spent more time online than with magazines lately. Epicurious and http://www.smittenkitchen.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; have been recent favorites.

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Cooks Illustrated.

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Nice.

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Stinky, you cited the #1 reason I buy Gourmet: I adore Ruth Reichl. I like Saveur, but more as eye candy. Gourmet is a working magazine for me, and I always find recipes I like in there.

Did you know that Ruth Reichl and Colman Andrews hooked up in the 80s? It was a major whirlwind affair of sex and five hour meals, and every evening started with '66 Krug. She wrote about it in the second of her three memoirs, Comfort Me With Apples. Really fascinating foodie puff!

I’ve subscribed off and on to Cook’s over the years, but mainly because the emphasis on technique and using the proper tools has helped me a lot. I don’t necessarily love the recipes. I buy Bon Appetit if there’s something really cool on the cover.

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Epicurious is fantastic because they publish recipes from Gourmet, Bon Appetit, and maybe some others. You can find almost anything! Even if I’ve had the issue, it’s easier to find a recipe in Epicurious, print it, and put it in my kitchen binder than to try to keep a dog-eared magazine or deal with clippings.

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Finished “Garlic and Sapphires” a couple of years ago. I also have the memory of dining in Gotham Bar & Grill many years ago and having our server excuse himself from a conversation on Laguiole corkscrews because he saw Ruth in his section.

She has brought a lot of food seriousness to Gourmet, but sometimes the photography drives me nuts. It gets way too pretty what with the models and all that.

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I don’t subscribe, but I love Cook’s Illustrated for the fact that they’ll make 437 loaves of banana bread before they find the “perfect” recipe. I just hope they give the extra stuff to the homeless instead of throwing it out - unless they’re subject to some ill-conceived law that says they can’t for “health reasons”.

I like Epicurious a lot, I’ve gotten some good recipes from Emeril’s site and http://gumbopages.com/recipe-page.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; is great when I’m in a Mardis Gras mood. Hmmm . . . isn’t Fat Tuesday next week? I might have to whip up some gumbo.

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I’ll be doing a whole grilled redfish with a crawfish ettoufe (sp) sauce.

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Garlic & Sapphires was more morose, what with some of her multiple personae getting bad service at restaurants and all. Comfort Me With Apples was more tawdry. I liked it better [good.gif]

I don’t know if Sunset, “the magazine of western living,” ever makes it to the east, but they have good casual recipes-- lots of salads, starters, grilled stuff-- that we enjoy.

I used to save all of my cooking magazines in a series of wood Sauternes boxes stacked on a shelf in the kitchen. Last year, I purged the magazines and the cases, and didn’t renew a single subscription. Now it’s Epicurious all the way. Here’s to a clutter-reduced 2009!

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Bob Wood:

I might have to whip up some gumbo

Mighty Rad?

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Melissa,

You can build a recipe box on Epicurious and link it to your facebook. I save everything there and use the laptop in the kitchen. Yummy stuff in the keyboard if you get hungry at meetings.

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The Art of Eating

Savour

Slow Food Magazine

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Cooking Light. I don’t subscribe
I found a recipe for a Pumpkin Pie that had an Oatmeal/Ginger Snap spice crust that was really good.
Most of the other food magazines I have to convert too much of the recipes for my dietary needs.

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I will have to pick up a copy of Epicurious! I like that they publish recipes from other mags…

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You don’t even need to pick up a copy of something. It’s 100% free and 100% online. So cool.
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Mags - I like Cook’s IIllustrated and Cuisine at Home. CI I buy if there are things that look good, but not all issues are interesting to me. CaH is great because of its format and easy to follow recipes. Both also come out with an annual Soup/Stew issue which are great.

Online Epicurious for general recipes and thefreshloaf.com for all my bread making issues.

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I love Cook’s for their commentary on technique and kitchen tools. I’m not so hot on their recipies, however. I usually just take some of their technique suggestions and apply them to other recipies.

For recipies, I prefer Fine Dining … Cuisine at Home is another that I like, but I think Fine Dining is better.

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cooks illustrated strikes the right balance between simplicity and sophistication. for me anyway . . .

I got food and wine for over a year and aside from the lettie teague column rarely found it of use . . .

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My apologies, I was referring to Cook’s Illustrated in the original poll. I have amended the listings and you may recast your votes. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.

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