Food and Cooking Magazines

[Anonymous]

I have subscribed to Food & Wine for a very long time. But, I find that for quite awhile now, the recipes aren't ones that I am particularly interested in making. I used to find several recipes an issue that were good enough to make again and again. Now, most of the recipes seem to take hours to prepare, the ingredient lists are extensive often with items that I don't have, are often hard to find, or that I would purchase once and never have a use for again. Does anyone subscribe to other magazines they like (understanding most people just use the internet now)?

[Anonymous]

May I recommend the Libby app, through your local library? Every single cooking magazine (or any other type) that you can think of is probably on there. You can subscribe and get alerted when a new issue arrives, and you can also browse back issues. This would really be the best way, in my opinion, to figure out what magazine you would like to subscribe to in print.

[Anonymous]

No, I don’t. I used to find quite a few in Cook’s Country but they got all yuppified and took the fun out of it. Taste of Home is deeply hit or miss (since they were always so rural in feel, when they yuppified it was more like modernization). Saveur is coming back to print, albeit quarterly (still, that’s something!). You might like Milk Street.

[Anonymous]

Milk street for varied global dishes. Bon Appetit.

Gourmet, La Cucina Italiana (eng. version), Cooking Light, and Fine Cooking were my four favorites and they all shut down in one way or another.

[Anonymous]

I have a digital subscription to America’s Test Kitchen and also to NYT Cooking. I find them much more useful than the current food magazines which are not really about food IMO.

[Anonymous]

For a long time I subscribed to Cook's Illustrated but in recent years they've become schizophrenic, trying to cover too diverse a range of recipes and cuisines that it makes it hard to make the magazine anything more than a pleasant 10 minute read with coffee. You might get one recipe that intrigues you out of an entire edition, which is what happens when you try to cover too much too thinly rather than in depth. So I gave it up.

Seems like internet ruined both cookbooks and cooking magazines.

[Anonymous]

I much prefer UK magazines like Olive and Delicious to the US ones, just like British Vogue is far superior to American Vogue.

[Anonymous]

Have loved Fine Cooking- will check to see if onLibby app

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have loved Fine Cooking- will check to see if onLibby app

Fine cooking stopped publishing a few years ago. Super sad.

[Anonymous]

I stopped subscribing to food magazines for the same reason. They were filled with complicated global recipes that I had zero time or interest in making.

[Anonymous]

Thank you. I am going to check out the Libby app and see which of these suggestions I can find.

[Anonymous]

I gave up on the magazines awhile ago. Now I rely on NYT Cooking and various blogs.

[Anonymous]

NYT’s cooking app because it’s clear and easy. There’s a photo. I don’t have to scroll through a thousand ads and videos just to get to the recipe. The comments from people who cooked the recipes are useful.
I can scroll recipes or type in ingredients.

If you are looking for an inspiring nudge, sign up for some of their newsletters. They have cooks from diverse backgrounds and this is a delight. The emailed newsletters are great and free.

The app is 40 or 50 a year, but a better deal if you combine it with an all app subscription (all those puzzles as well as the unbearable news).

Any educators out there, call and ask them for their best going educator deal.