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Oops, typo. My comment should have read: I've missed it ever since Ruth Reichl took over.

what CanadianFoodieGirl said.

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.

No.

It seemed like a good idea, then issues sat wasted without me cracking the cover after the initial read.

As a long time subscriber, yes I'll miss Gourmet.
I learned a lot about new foods, trends and ingredients that were interesting.

Since I love to cook, I used some of the recipes for inspiration although some of them weren't practical in terms of getting some specialized ingredients.

As with many magazines, some issues were more interesting than others, but over all, I can't think of a magazine that I'm going to replace it with.

Gourmet also sponsored many events usually in NYC that gave me the impression that they were fostering new chefs, new food ingredients and trends along with technical information.

Although the economy hasn't help matters at all, let's put the blame where much of it belongs - Poor management from Conde Nast.

It seems they had no limit on spending when it came to their Hollywood parties etc.

They should have spent more time managing their valued parties instead of hobnobbing with the swells.

Here's a post from epicurious.com regarding Gourmet and the future of epicurious. I'll be checking back for more info on epi and if they will be expanding.

I never bought the magazine, but I have some of the best of Gourmet books someone gave me. The recipes in them are interesting and they work. I get Cooks Illustrated. I find it useful albeit a little expensive... Gourmet Magazine looks kind of corny.

It's comfort food

I love bacon because I can have it the first thing in the morning, at lunch on a BLT and at dinner in a salad or in one of my wife's delicious creations.

I love bacon because the taste is out of this world!

I love bacon because it is the most tasty food on the planet. I can put it in almost anything and enjoy :) The last time I found it for an unbeatable price I bought 50lbs worth LOL.

Because nothing else comes close to tasting as good as bacon.