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"We soon noticed Gourmet would repeat recipes every few years! Oh, well!" Southern Living has been doing this for years ...

This is what I read about the how they will continue to leverage the Gourmet brand:

In an e-mail obtained by Gawker, Conde Nast CEO Chuck Townsend said Gourmet will live on through television and books. "Gourmet magazine will cease monthly publication, but we will remain committed to the brand, retaining Gourmet's book publishing and television programming, and Gourmet recipes on Epicurious.com," he wrote. "We will concentrate our publishing activities in the epicurean category on Bon Appétit."

i have such abiding admiration for ruth reichl's writing, but the magazine just hasn't been all that great since gail zweigenthal left. i mostly just read it now for the sterns, but even their column hasn't been as lovely since they split up. oh, well. there's still saveur, which i have come to prefer.

This is very cool—thanks for posting those pictures. I was surprised today by how visceral a sadness I felt learning that Gourmet is gone. For what it's worth (not much now, I guess, but still pretty entertaining) I found out recently that Earle MacAusland is my husband's great-uncle.

I do think it's sad that Gourmet is folding, but I haven't enjoyed it much in recent years. Some articles have seemed almost agressively political, which is an odd thing for me to complain about, since I enjoy politics and generally agreed with the view presented in any case. I guess I just don't like mixing politics and cooking.

And in the past year or so it's been all pretty pictures and not many practical recipes. I do realize that travel and restaurant reviews have always been a major focus, but it's seemed so much less accessible than in the past. I still remember the first issue I ever bought. It was from sometime in 1978, and showed a beautiful tropical beach from the air with gorgeous turquoise water. That magazine I will miss--the one that introduced me to gourmet cooking.

My 1950 edition of the Gourmet Cookbook :(

http://blog.daryn.net/post/205224186/the-gourmet-cookbook-circa-1950

On our first visit to my parents' after getting married, my wife and I were given boxes of Gourmet dating back to the beginning. We used to go through a few issues each at night to build up our supply of recipes. We soon noticed Gourmet would repeat recipes every few years! Oh, well!

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