Broke: "Conde Nast plans to announce this morning that it will close Gourmet magazine, a magazine of almost biblical status in the food world; it has been published since December 1940." I love me some Ruth Reichl, so this makes me sad. Also, they decided to close this over Bon Appetit? What a world.
ALSO: "In addition to Gourmet, Conde Nast plans to announce this morning it will also close Cookie, Modern Bride, and Elegant Bride. Parenting magazine Cookie is a relatively new introduction, started in 2005, while the bridal magazines were seen as offshoots of the bigger Brides, which Conde Nast also owns."
Gourmet deserved better.
mmmm... death warmed over...
Is it for sale? Guy Fieri's Kick-Ass Gourmet has a nice ring to it.
What's with the serial comma?
Glad to see the back of Cookie though. As a parent I'd pick it up occasionally and never failed to get enraged at the people and products in it. I wanted to slap the smug pricks in the face with their perfect lives and designer-clad children.
Oh, wait, Cookie is a smug upper-middle-class parenting magazine? I thought that it was Conde Nast's third food magazine, dedicated entirely to cookies, and was sad to hear about its demise.
They chose poorly. I tried picking up Bon Appetit, but it never held a candle to Gourmet.
Having subscribed to both simultaneously (shut up, there was a killer special), I guess I'll miss not having twice as much of basically the same thing.
But Gourmet was the better half!
It makes no sense. Why kill the better of the two? The only competition left is Paula Dean's Cooking with Butter and Rachel Ray's Cooking with ADHD.
I have yet to see Rachel Ray 'cook' something a two-year old couldn't make.
Having read both Gourmet and Bon Appetit uncritically for years--essentially for restaurant tips, the latest advice on what to do with your turkey gruel on Dec. 1, and how to pronounce "edamame"--I sincerely report to being unable to taste the difference between panko and breadcrumbs.
Exactly. Gourmet was also charging what you can get for free on the internets. There are times I think I am falling in love with you KarenUhOh.
Show us your UhOh face!
Panko's texture is not as dense as that of breadcrumbs. I don't think the taste is that much different.
fun fact: panko means breadcrumbs is japanese, but is also slang for slut.
in, not is.
They should put the archive online, charge for access if they want--I'd read it. There's nearly 70 years of foodways geek stuff in there.
Already online for free at epicurious.com
I was thinking more in terms of a facsimile archive like at The New Yorker's website. The recipes are okay on their own, but would be more interesting (to me) in the context of what else is covered in each issue. There are are a few columns from decades past available on the Gourmet website that are just fascinating to read; I would pay to read more stuff like that in context.
I temped at Gourmet in the late '90s in their ad sales department. The highlight: seeing Sara Moulton wandering the floor one day looking for a meeting. The most memorable moment, however, was when a sweet gal from North Carolina who had just started work as an assistant took me aside one day and told me that one of the ad salesmen was "a homosexual, just so you know."
You should have blown her mind: "We're all homosexuals, did't you know?"
At least they kept Redneck Bride!
Is "Soldier of Fortune" still around?
"Garden & Gun" is still going strong!
And as long as they still publish Bride of Christ and Deluded Spinster, I'll be happy.
I mean, I understand the rationale behind "Modern Bride" (i.e., not elegant enough), but "Elegant Bride"? Other than printing the magazine out of Grace Kelly's old clothes, what else could they have done?
Thanks, I'll take my answer offline.