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Gourmet (1-year)
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Publisher: Conde' Nast Publications
Issues: 12
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 40
Average Customer Rating: 
List price: $48.90
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 More Advertising Than Writing and Recipes, July 16, 2008
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I have been a Ruth Reichl fan since her days at the LA Times (and her three autobiographies are exceptionally written), but I do not understand what she has done with this magazine. My chief complaint is the number of pages of advertising vs. the number of pages of writing and recipes. After finishing an issue, I feel assaulted by multi-page adver-torials from wine companies, cruise ships, and anyone else willing to fork over big $$$ to convince me how environmentally responsible they are. I never come away excited about food or ingredients or culture or a new dinner idea. Bon Appetit, on the other hand, has modernized and stylized its page layout, coverage and relationship with the reader. Yes, they, too, have a ton of ad pages, but I can overlook them better when almost every page of content is a joy. BA, I will be renewing my sub next year!
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A Textbook Case of Why The Magazine Is Dead, July 1, 2008
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Gourmet- it's the food magazine that you don't want to be seen reading. It's precious, pedantic, and short on prose. The energy that came with editor Ruth Reichl was palpable a few years ago. Heads rolled, and after a few surprises , it has now settled into horribly written articles, pious editorials, unappealing recipes and a virtual altar for foodies. It is not relevant or interesting except to a very narrowly focused group of food intelligentsia. If a magazine is not capable of surprising you, teaching you, or exposing you to the world we live in, what's the point? If someone reads Gourmet fifty years from now, they will have no idea of what kind of culture we live in. Fear and hatred of food, smart foods, packaged dinners, frozen food, unaffordable food...the list goes on. Gourmet is in a bubble of their own making. Maybe they actually want to attend the staged parties they create in every issue complete with models vainly attempting to eat a sparerib.
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Not quite what I expected, June 14, 2008
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Although this magazine has beautiful pictures of food, the recipes are a little over my head. I wanted something a little simpler and not quite so - well, what the magazine is called - GOURMET. This would be good for someone who has a lot of time to cook and appreciates gourmet dishes.
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 The one magazine I've been reading for over 30 years, May 29, 2008
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I first started reading my mother's issues when I was a teen. I remember my first ever Gourmet recipe was Dilled Carrots. I am always tempted to try recipes like this by the mouth-watering photography. I also love the articles that take you to a region and sample not only the cuisine, but also the local culture. As I love to travel - and a large part of my travel is sampling local cooking - these articles are my favourite.
My only wish for a better Gourmet is to remove the inserts. Their stiffness makes it difficult to lay my Gourmet flat while exploring a new recipe.
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Year long cooking inspiration for super deal, January 20, 2008
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Already a Gourmet subscriber I choose to renew through Amazon this time which gives me 12 issues for $10!
To me Gourmet is one of the best food magazines, besides recipes that always work I love to read the food related travel reports. Photography is among the best, both for the travel articles as the dinner articles.
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