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The Ten Most Recent Comments By HairyBackJoe

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Bread maker recommendations?

I have the Breadman Ultimate (ret. about $100.) and have been completely satisfied. I even found an outstanding recipe for Whole Wheat Flax seed bread. Makes for great turkey sandwiches!

HairyBackJoe at 10:19AM on 02/13/08

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Food Mags: Which to Choose?

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

HairyBackJoe at 12:05PM on 02/12/08

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Food Mags: Which to Choose?

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

PerkyMac at 10:15PM on 02/15/08

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Food Mags: Which to Choose?

I *love* The Art of Eating. What a gem. I got a subscription for my stepmother, and I think she didn't see the joy in it, however. I think she found it pretentious. I also get Cook's Illustrated and Cooking Light.

SelimaCat at 9:10PM on 02/15/08

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Food Mags: Which to Choose?

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.

BaHa at 10:50AM on 02/13/08

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Food Mags: Which to Choose?

While I enjoy Bon Appetit, Gourmet, and Saveur, I currently recieve, CI, Cook's Country, Fine Cooking (I really enjoy their Cooking without Recipes feature), Cooking Light and Everyday Food. I almost never use recipes from Cooking Light and find that I most consistently use recipes from Cook's Country and Everyday Food.

I find I mark recipes in all of them, but those in Cook's Country and Everyday Food get tried first; the others often don't get tried at all.

IndyGal at 9:33AM on 02/13/08

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Food Mags: Which to Choose?

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.

tech9803 at 1:43AM on 02/13/08

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Food Mags: Which to Choose?

I'm another big fan of Cook's Illustrated and, like previous posters, I also enjoy Cook's Country, despite it being CI's country cousin (all puns intended). I like Cooking Light, as well.

macknitter at 11:41PM on 02/12/08

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Food Mags: Which to Choose?

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.

cybercita at 9:30PM on 02/12/08

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Food Mags: Which to Choose?

I've subscribed to most of them in the past, but the only food periodicals I've read for the last couple years are from the Edible communities series.

srhcb at 8:30PM on 02/12/08

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Food Mags: Which to Choose?

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?

mrsmoosie at 6:58PM on 02/12/08

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Food Mags: Which to Choose?

I had a subscription to Gourmet from 1975 onwards; I thought nothing beat it for writing, photography, and recipes. I never made a clunker! There was something so old school and elegant about it. I bought the annual collected cookbooks, too. Then, sadly, when Ruth Reichl assumed the editorship, she decided to make it newer, fresher, hipper. There were all sorts of little sidebar-y pieces on gadgets and there seemed to be fewer and fewer recipes About 5 or 6 years ago I let my subscription lapse.

I've tried Saveur and Food and Wine and Bon Appetit, but none have ever filled the void left by the old Gourmet. Now I just get Cooks Illustrated and use Epicurious.com.

klg19 at 6:43PM on 02/12/08