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I currently receive Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Fine Cooking and Plate. I have gotten Bon since 1989 and still have most of my issues. Bon has changed their format several times and just last year changed again. It has become a bit more simplistic, I'm sure to appeal to a wider demographic. It's still good and I intend to keep subscribing. The recipes are usually very good and I cannot tell you the successes I have had over the years from that source. You can get the recipes online from Epicurious, but it is nice to have the mag to flip through to update yourself on restaurants and food trends. And it's fairly inexpensive.

I have only subscribed to Gourmet for about 4 years and thoroughly love it. The recipes are wonderful and I can literally read it cover to cover. It is a quality magazine with superbly researched articles. They recently launched their new website, so you can check that out. I highly recommend Gourmet.

Fine Cooking is a beautifully done mag from Taunton Press. It is a smaller mag (not as small as CI) with lots of color photos and I consider it more of a teaching resource. No big articles on restaurants or exotic destinations but lots of comparisons, tips and detailed step-by-step recipes. I cannot count the happy dishes made from this source.

Plate is really a food industry mag more directed toward chefs and restaurant food trends. It does include many recipes but they must be scaled down for home use. It's a great mag, very well done, quite esoteric. If you ever have the opportunity to peruse it, you should snag one. The photos alone will get you very excited about cuisine.

I did get CI for a few years but we always had subscription problems. We had to call and write letters to finally get our first issue then when it came time to re-up, we ordered and never EVER received them. Very informative, highly tested recipes and I like the fact they have no advertising.

I'm not sure why, but Food and Wine never really appealed to me and Saveur is a beautiful mag but very expensive. IMO, if I had to choose one magazine only, it would be Gourmet for it's wide range of content.

Love all of the above (I have to look into Plate -- thanks for the suggestion, frederika!) -- Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Cook's Illustrated, Fine Cooking -- and also Cook's Country. It looks a little hokey, but it has great home-style recipes, and they do lots of product testing a la CI. I also get Food & Wine and love it. I get Everyday Food and it always looks pretty, but I don't love the recipes. For work I also get Donna Hay -- the magazine is Australian, so it's pricey, but what a treat! The most gorgeous photos, and she proves that you can make wonderful, elegant food from a few very simple ingredients.

My favorites are the Art of Eating (bias alert: I will have an article in an upcoming issue) because it goes deeper into the great foods and drinks of Europe and America than any other 'zine, with the possible exception of Gastronomica. As far as the mainstream food mags, Saveur and Food & Wine.

I'm a big fan of Cook's Illustrated, Fine Cooking, and Cuisine at Home. Cuisine at Home is similar to Cooks Illustrated only more pictures and in color.

Another good one is La Cucina Italiana for Itallian food enthusiasts

I get CI and Food and Wine

While I like Bon Appetit's recipes, I much prefer Gourmet or Saveur for the writing and photography.

I used to get quite a few, but now only get Saveur and Vegetarian Times. Saveur has to be the top food magazine in terms of photography and complex, but definitely make-able food (http://saveur.com). Vegetarian Times cause I'm a vegetarian and they're obviously not meat-centric.

I only get CI. The rest I buy here and there. Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Fine Cooking, never see much I want to cook recently in them. Since food blogging became so popular in the last 3 years I tend to spend my time reading food blogs. Of course I also buy a lot of cookbooks.

Over the years I have subscribed to Gourmet, Bon Apetit, Fine Cooking, Saveur, Food and Wine, and Cook's Illustrated. I have enjoyed them all, except Cook's Illustrated, I realise that puts me in a serious minority. While the techniques can be somewhat interesting, I find the actual recipes too bland and sometimes, too dumbed down. I picked up the Fall Entertaining issue, because of the apple tart pictured on front, and it had what I consider a bad recipe for shrimp and andouille gumbo: no okra or file, clam juice instead of shrimp stock, and insufficent seasoning. Then I checked out an enchillada recipe that used tomato sauce instead of chilli gravy! Yuk. I left the magazine in the trash room of my apartment, hoping another resident would enjoy it. No more impulse purchases of CI for me.

I love Cooks Illustrated and also enjoy Cook's Country (ditto the "a little hokey" but have made some good things from it - Boston Cream cupcakes last weekend) I enjoy Bon Apetit but do not know if I will renew because I don't seem to make anything from it unless I get it from epicurious.com. I also very much like Fine Cooking. I find that Gourmet and Food and wine don't have much that interests me, a little too 'fancy' maybe or maybe it's because I don't drink wine?

i get gourmet, saveur {you can get a cheap subscription if you keep your eyes open} cooks illustrated and cooks country, and everyday food.

i must confess i rarely cook out of any of them.

i love gourmet mostly for jane and michael stern. i wish ruth reichl were writing more and editing less. i don't love what gourmet has become since she became the editor, but i adore her writing.

Saveur has beutiful photography and writing with a real love of food beyond the nuts-and-blots of recipes.
I got my subscription for $5 but that deal seems to have gone away now. You can get it for $15 a year from netmagazines.com with coupon code DCMPS5.

CI, Saveur, some Aussie one that I don't remember the name of at the moment, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, F&W, and Everyday Food (surprisingly good recipes in the last). I'm getting very tired of the childcentrism that is creeping into all these magazines. I am sick of looking at ice-cream smeared faces and recipes for New American classic pbjs.
Other fun magazines are Imbibe and Modern Drunkard.

i've had most of them over the years, then switched to buying cookbooks and now I love my subscription to Cooks Illustrated's website, too.

When are they going to start making large print for baby boomers? Maybe I'll start buying them again. I do miss Cooking Light the most. Confession time.....I sometimes changed the recipes to make them cooking heavy, but the originals were usually really good without any revisions. :-0