Serious Eats - seriouseats.com

I will miss Gourmet. I was wondering where my request to resubscribe was. Now I know. I recreated many of the recipes using affordable ingredients with great results. Substituting worked for me and my meals were not expensive. I was reading my local newspaper and boom there it was. Gourmet trashed. I could not believe it. Sure it had it's share of problems, but what publication doesn't. I am glad epicurious is still around though. Well thank goodness for Bon Appetit and Food and Wine. I subscribe to other food magazines also so there will be one less in the mailbox for my husband to complain about.

Well since this is the first I've heard of Gourmet closing down so I am rather shocked. I suppose that in the effort not to have too many advertisements they were rather doomed. My subscription is up in a few months so I'm just lucky in that respect.

Not to be mean here but I suspect that there are not enough people out there that truly do love food so the politics of food and the planet is just not interesting. Which I find rather odd because with out the planet there is no food and without food… you get the picture.
I love a good recipe just as well as the next person but if an ingredient will destroy a chunk of rain forest then I can do without it, that kind of stuff I would like to know.

I don't think its being a snob to say chicken stock or any stock made from scratch is best and that each and every meat dish does not have to have cheese or the ingredient du jour.

There were issues of Gourmet that I would flag most of the magazine and there were issues where I could careless. I don’t know of any magazine that hits the mark each and every time with each and every reader.

I hate the glossy ads as well as everyone else but in reality that is the advertisers fault not the magazines. The truth is that all magazines are just whores for the advertisers.

With all that said, I would think that the owners would have looked into why they had to have all of their staff needing salaries that would allow them to live in Manhattan. Perhaps that may have been one of the problems. Food and the Internet are everywhere so why only use writers in NY??

I will miss the magazine and will be sorry to see it go, I do so loved those food pictures on the covers.

i will definitely miss it. people who complain about ruth's direction in the mag tend to not appreciate the all-encompassing approach she brought in — i always loved reading every issue how someone would moan about how they don't want to read about the politics of their food, or how there's too many vegetarian recipes in the magazine now, on and on. well, guess what? food IS political, and the vegetarian plate tends to be the healthier one. deal with it!

i have learned so much from my subscription, and i will continue to learn from back issues. for instance, my next culinary mountain to climb is making your own mozzarella. i'm nervous and excited about the prospect, and this sort of thing is something you would never read about in bon appetit. i will not be subscribing to another food magazine for a long, long time from the looks of it.

Echoing what someone said earlier, does this mean that "Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie" will be canceled?

If so, that is extremely unfortunate. I've downloaded every episode onto my iphone (it's free on itunes) and they are always highly entertaining and educational.

I've missed it every since Ruth Reichl took over.

Well, that didn't work...here's the link http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/blogs/editor/2009/10/epicurious-gourmet-the-future.html

Miss Gourmet? Not so much. I love perusing epicurious.com so I'll still have access to the Gourmet recipe archives. It's a tough market. SE is a fantastic resource offering a diverse, interesting mix of chat, recipe and news. Will other foodie mags follow Gourmet to media graveyard? Time will tell...

The last few issues, they've been trying new things, and as a result, it's been better, but no. I've had a subscription to both Bon Appetit and Gourmet for the last three years, and I can count on one hand the number of recipes I've cooked from the latter. I found the recipes disappointingly expensive and complicated and the articles a bit pretentious. Compared to Bon Appetit, it seemed the weak sister. And if that makes me part of the lower class masses, so be it. As it stands, Cooks Illustrated is better than both in utility, if not style.

I miss the Gourmet of my childhood but not what it turned into. My aunt always gave my parents a subscription for Christmas and I looked forward to it every month. I loved the column (You asked For It, I think?) where people asked for restaurant recipes, no idea why but it was my favorite. I stopped reading it for the most part when I moved out on my own and when I picked up a copy a year or so ago, I was really sad that it had turned into such a crappy snobby magazine.

I, too, had let my subscriptions of Gourmet, F & W and Bon Appetit end this year. Read them once and then they were clutter, not reference material like they once were. As a teenager, I would babysit for a family that had year's of Bon Appetit mags filed away - I would spend the evenings (after the kids were asleep) copying recipes down to try one day. I think my love of food began when I picked up that magazine! I wanted to aspire to cook these things.

Maybe it's the recession but these magazines just seem out of touch with the way that people (even "foodie" people) live and cook these days. I don't read food magazines so that I can aspire to be like someone else (e.g. waifs, sitting at a white clothed table in the field over looking the Alps) who I will never be - I read them to inspire me to cook and try new things.

Would love to hear more about what magazines people are reading these days!

I'll miss seeing Gourmet at the newsstand, but I've never consistently used it. I don't think I've ever made a recipe from it.

Alas, Gourmet. I subscribed for over 20 years. I remember when it was one of America's best magazines, and actually was written for gourmets, not arriviste snobs who can't tell money from class. You remember, before Ruth Reichl decided to use her power as editor to show all those people who actually got invited to the Prom who was the big, important girl now! I remember reading Gerald Asher's (the finest wine writer writing in the English language) article every month, and wanting to go out, immediately, and buy bottles of the wine he was covering that month; she turned that into "six New Zealand whites to serve with Guacamole!". I cooked countless dishes from their pages, celebrating fresh fruits and vegetables of the season; recipes that called for asparagus in February and apples in March began to appear, along with overpriced hard-to-find (even in New York City!) ingredients. Sadly, Gourmet is now just another lifestyle rag, with wet-dream articles about restaurants you'll probably never eat in, and hotels you can't afford to stay in. Dangling all those expensive things in front of your readers and thinking it's "class" is really the same as leaving the label on the sleeve of a new jacket to show everyone that it really IS camelhair. Really! 100% See? See?