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Try Cuisine at Home. It is like Cook's Illustrated WITH pictures. I also like Cooking Light. I have made many things from both of these, and they are accurate and delicious. Bon Appetit or Food and Wine are also good(but kind of like Gourmet).

Here's what I get:
Gourmet -- been reading it since I could read; that's a long time!
Food & Wine
Bon Appetit
These three all have good recipes, but I am way tired of all the advertising that I have to wade through.
The one I most look forward to is Saveur; it's a good read, full of culinary/cultural information. The recipes I have tried have all been delicious.
Cook's Illustrated is just too dry/technical for me; where is the love/joy of food and cooking?

I sub to the following:

Fine Cooking. Very good, technical magazine. Lousy photography but it has improved in recent years. Incredibly applicable culinary information on techniques and ingredients. Highly recommend.

Cook's Illustrated. Another excellent source for highly technical information. They don't accept advertising so it's kind of costly but very educational.

Saveur. Incredible "Food Porn." Excellent information, incredible photography. Several articles in Saveur have made me jump up from my chair to the kitchen to start cooking. Can't say that about many mags.

Everyday Food. I can also make the above statement for this little powerhouse of information.

Martha Stewart Living...Quit rolling your eyes. (LOL) Great culinary info and I prepare many of the recipes from MSL Mag. Love her or hate her, Martha knows her way around the kitchen.

I need to LEARN something, at least one thing, from each issue of any magazine to which I subscribe. If I'm not learning... I cxl that sub.

I like Cooking Light

Ok, since no one else had the guts to do it, I'll say it -- I subscribe to Rachel Ray's magazine, and I like it.
Yes, I get Gourmet and Bon Appetit and they are great mags as well.
What do I like about Rachel's mag? The recipes are like a canvas -- they can easily be built upon. Also the ingredients she uses are easily substitutable, something I don't find in other cooking mags. You can cook some really nice dishes without having that "gourmet" pantry.
And, she has pictures with EVERY recipe, something I find extremely helpful.
So, sue me, hate me, call me "simple", but . . . I subscribe to Everyday with Rachel Ray . . .and I like it.

I've been a Cooking Light subscriber for years, and I find that their recipes are really geared towards the home cook (in a very good way)! The nice bonus is that most people don't realize you've made a 'light' dish. Definitely my top rec. I also get Gourmet and was getting Food and Wine, but after a while, I find that those two and Bon App all start to be a little too much alike. I've never read it, but I have friends who love Fine Cooking.

I'll second all the Fine Cooking recommendations. If you subscribe, you also get access to the website, which has just been revamped and includes a ton of very useful features, like the ability to bookmark your favorite recipes, access to the Fine Cooking recipe archive, and the ability to create your own recipe. (The site itself isn't that pretty, though.) It's great on techniques - for example, their latest issue had a spread on how to roast many different vegetables and create different sauces for them. From that spread, I've roasted beets and brussels sprouts and they turned out great! (I don't even like beets that much.)

Other food magazines I like include Gourmet and Saveur. I occasionally buy Food and Wine, but I never make any of the recipes in them.

I am a fan of Cooking Light. There is a travel section, wine tips, vegetarian options. And every month there is a Cooking School segment, to learn the basics to make old favorites that much better - pot roast, Thanksgiving turkey, pie etc. It usually also has some focus on what is in season at the time. The photos are great. And it has suggestions for quick and easy weeknight meals that are very good. They do use recipes with butter and bacon. Nothing I have ever tried has tasted like "diet" food. After re-reading, I should be getting paid for this post, haha!

I have a confession to make... I read Parenting magazines for the recipes. The catch is that I'm 18 and don't have any children lol The recipes are always tasty (they are made for little kids after all ), they're incredibly simple, and the photography is breath taking. I'm also a Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Rachel Ray, and Martha Stewart Living girl. I am a total Martha addict...and I'm proud to admit it!

I like "La Cucina Italiana".... it has very nice recipes,and if they seem sometimes a little elaborate they're always explained very well, and what I have tried came out very nicely...
it's another "food porn" - literally leaves me breathless sometimes!
I normally read the Italian version, but I've seen the English one and it looks pretty good too...
check it out! ..... now I'm gonna run and look for Saveur out there... made me curious!!

I love the Everyday Food mag by Martha Stewart. I've had a subscription since it first came out. It has a little bit of everthing inside, from simple to sometimes really elegant dishes.
I also really like Cooking Light. The recipes I've tried have all been outstanding.
I recently bought a Wine and Food to see if I'd like it. I did, but I'm not sure if I'd make anything from it.
Sorry to say, but I do like Rachel Ray's mag. I know that's not a popular opinion, but sometimes you just want simple and not overly complicated recipes.

It depends on if you're cooking or browsing. For cooking, I like Cooking Light a lot. Food and Wine is a bit hit-and-miss for me. My favorite is Saveur - but I never cook anything out of it..seems to mostly be for browsing and going "ooooh cooool!"