What cooking magazines do most people like?

egginator

We subscribe to cooking light and bon appetite. I like cooking light, but I'm sort of meh on bon appetite. Frankly about 90% of my new cooks come from this forum. Are there magazines/books/TV shows that the greater forum recommends?

Thanks

Ed

gdenby

I'm a subscriber to "Cook's Illustrated," but most of my info comes from the net, either websites (Serious Eats), forums (here, eGullet), and some food bloggers (Egghead thirdeye's "Playing with Fire and Smoke, or foodplayerlinda "Playing with Fire and Water").

For awhile, Cook's was pushing a web subscription rather strongly. I declined because I really do like their illustrations, and find a paper page the best way to view those.

Mickey

Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country
No ads and very good reading
Get most of my info from right here

Serial Griller

Eating Well,& Food and Wine.
I also like Saveur.

EggObsessed

My "go to" cooking magazines are Cooks Illustrated and Cooks Country. I also enjoy Saveur and Southern Living. My "go to" blogs are The Pioneer Woman and also Homesick Texan. Both of these bloggers like food with a lot of flavor and spice.

AZRP

My favorite is Food Network's magazine, 100's of recipes and pictures to inspire me to try different things. -RP

Hungry Celeste

Saveur is my only subscription generalist food mag these days. Bon Appetite is indeed "meh" at best; Cook's Illustrated is too New England, too obsessive, too rigid, and too damn bland. Louisiana Cookin' is pretty good, when I can get my hands on a copy.

My mom gets Eating Well--it's not a bad publication, with better content than Cooking Light, imho.

Rascal

I subscribed to 'Gourmet' for a while and I believe it's no longer published. Then it was 'Fine Cooking', which was probably my favorite. Now it's the Food Channel, this forum, and a host of other web sites. Also, I am a life time member of the Rouxbe on-line cooking school.

EggObsessed

I forgot to mention in my earlier post that I really like Cuisine at Home magazine. It's very straight forward and always pairs side dishes with the entrees. Also, really like Food Network Magazine.

Woody

Cooks Illustrated gets my vote as well.
They do a great job breaking down a recipe, trying different things and coming up with an improved version. Appeals to my engineering side from my previous life.

egginator

Just sent out a link to Thirdeye's site to half a dozen non-forum eggheads. Yeah I know they are lame and ought to be on this forum all the time. You can lead a horse to water... Doing CWM ribs this weekend

egginator

Magazines
Cook's Illustrated 4 thumbs up, 1 down
Cook's Country 2 thumbs up
Eating Well 1 thumbs up
Food and Wine 1 thumbs up
Saveur 3 thumbs up
Bon Appetite 2 thumbs down
Louisiana Cookin' 1 thumbs up
Eating Well 1 thumbs up
Cooking Light 1 thumbs up, 1 down
Southern Living 1 thumbs up
Food Network's Mag 2 thumbs up
Fine Cooking 1 thumbs up
Cuisine at Home 1 thumbs up


Websites
Serious Eats 1 thumbs up
Playing with Fire and Smoke 1 thumbs up
Playing with Fire and Water 1 thumbs up
Pioneer Woman 1 thumbs up
Homesick Texan 1 thumbs up

Little Steven

egginator,

I like Saveur as well.
I also like one that is available from Liquor Stores in Ontario, Canada. It is free so it has a lot of ads but about the same number of recipes as you would get in the other mags. It has a web site that works well and when you cursor over a recipe it shows the plated product.

http://www.lcbo.com/fooddrink/index.shtml

Steve

RRP

add two more thumbs up for CI and CC!

WooDoggies

Saveur and Cook's Illustrated are the two we subscribe to. If I had to choose just one, it would be Saveur.... beautiful photography, well-written and excellent exposure to the world's great foods and their recipes.


john

Spring Hen

I like Cuisine At Home. No ads but a lot of cool tips too.

Botch

Cook's Illustrated here too (like Woody, I like their engineering approach).
My second-favorite, not mentioned yet, is Sunset. Its a "chick" magazine, focuses on "western US" living (TX to WA to HA) lots of gardening, bed-n-breakfast, redecorating, travel and wine info, but the quarter of the magazine focusing on cooking is outstanding (they have a new cookbook out called The Sunset Cookbook, highly recommended!).
I had been a charter subscriber to Fine Cooking, but the new editor made major changes to the "look" of the rag, and my 51-year-old eyes can't read light blue type on tan backgrounds anymore, I've let my subscription expire. Idiots.

mkc

After being a charter subscriber and never letting the subscription lapse, I gave up on Cooking Light when their new editor took over a little over a year ago and it became "Cooking Lite" and focused on few ingredients, fast recipes. Many of my favorite recipes are from that magazine, but not since the change.

I get Eating Well and Fine Cooking and really enjoy them. I have every issue of FC from the beginning and prefer the older format, but the updated version is still pretty good.