Cooking Magazines

**Kris10** · 11-15-2007, 04:52 PM

What cooking magazines are theBubbler members reading?

I've been a Taste of Home subscriber for years, and I've also gotten other TOH family publications like Light & Tasty and Quick Cooking. I like their recipes but lately I feel like a lot of the recipes taste the same.

I got a free copy of Cooking at Home in the mail and I loved it! It's similar to Cooks Illustrated but not as expensive. They have classic recipes but they also get into cooking equipment and techniques. I'm thinking of subscribing to this one.

I got Rachael Ray's cooking magazine for a while but she gets a little... sickening? Paula Dean's magazine is a hoot but if I ate southern dishes that often I'd have a heart attack!

I really like the free Food and Family magazine from Kraft. It highlights Kraft products, of course, but their recipes are really easy. These Baked Crab Rangoon are awesome.

What magazines do you recommend?

**MrKhay** · 11-20-2007, 07:19 PM

I subscribe to Taste of Home. I discovered this magazine at the chiropractors office. I was paging through the recipes, and had all to do to keep the drool off of my chin!

I also subscribe to Cooking for 2, and Light & Tasty, all three from Reiman Publications of Glendale Wisconsin.

**Kris10** · 11-21-2007, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by MrKhay

I also subscribe to Cooking for 2, and Light & Tasty, all three from Reiman Publications of Glendale Wisconsin.

How do you feel about the Reiman (now Reader's Digest) publications having ads in them? Seeing a Bush's Beans ad in the last Taste of Home was weird! If they get as cluttered as some of the other magazines I read, I may reconsider my subscriptions.

pk · 11-21-2007, 09:07 AM

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How do you feel about the Reiman (now Reader's Digest) publications having ads in them? Seeing a Bush's Beans ad in the last Taste of Home was weird! If they get as cluttered as some of the other magazines I read, I may reconsider my subscriptions.

I have a large collection of cookbooks from very old to modern. I use to love collecting them and finding interesting things to make. But since I discovered Taste of Home cookbooks/magazines I was totally hooked. Not sure if I ever made something that wasn't great to eat.

But ads? I missed the last few issues and haven't seen ads in yet. This will be really strange. The one thing they always prided themselves in was the fact that they had NO ADS.

Too bad greed always gets in the way of great things and this new company that now owns it has to feel they have to change a great thing. Maybe they will be wise and just put a few ads in or perhaps make the last few pages where the ads fit so it won't mess with the flow of the magazine as we know it?

pk

**MrKhay** · 11-21-2007, 01:25 PM

Seems my copy of "Taste of Home" magazine doesn't have the advertising you refer to. Other than the inserts that ask me to subscribe to some of their other publications.

I enjoy Taste of Home's "Cupcake of the Week" emailing. I don't eat alot of cupcakes, but I get to see some of the other cooks/bakers ideas.

I have noticed that when using recipe sites such as from Kraft Foods, or Sargento, etc., they like to advise using "Sargento Low Fat Shredded Mozzarella" where the recipe could just say "Low Fat Shredded Mozzarella".

I'd like to see a cooks jokes section in one of those magazines.

**Kris10** · 11-21-2007, 02:13 PM

The only ad I've seen in TOH so far was a Bush's Beans ad in the last issue. It was certainly relevant. I have less issue with relevant ads than say, make-up ads in a cooking magazine.

When I get a magazine, the first thing I do is pull out every page that is double-sided with ads. You'd be amazed at how little content there is in a magazine once the ads are yanked out!

Has anyone gone to a Taste of Home cooking school or the annual expo in Milwaukee? I went to the expo once. Holy cow. I thought mosh pits were violent... they're nothing compared to senior citizens scrambling over free samples of Spam!