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[aroraborealis]

What are your favorite cooking/food magazines and/or websites?

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[gilana]

Cooks Illustrated. I have a subscription to both the magazine and the website.

[redjo.livejournal.com]

Food and Wine (magazine), for the balance between the two. I have a subscription.

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

I second the impressively anal-retentive Cooks Illustrated. I have a couple of their cookbooks, which I love, and I buy the magazine if there are more than one or two interesting-to-me recipes in it. (The only reason this isn't the same as "all the time" is because I'm veg.)

For recipes, I like Epicurious, especially for the ratings and comments. For veg recipes, I've had good luck so far with the Post Punk Kitchen.

[trom.livejournal.com]

I vastly prefer Fine Cooking over Cooks Illustrated, we get both because we subscribe to the former and my folks got us a subscription to the later. I also make good use of cdkitchen.com for recipes and a metric assload of food blogs. If you want, I can export my feedlist from NewNewsWire....

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

Cooks Illustrated was a good introduction to food and cooking, but at this point, I'd probably recommend just buying one of their "Best Recipes" cookbooks and cherry-picking issues that appeal to you off the newsstand. (Unlike most magazines, there's almost no advantage to buying CI off the newsstand.) After awhile, there's a certain sameness to the issues and their opinions of what is "best" may vary significantly from yours. They also tend to lean toward the more conservative in terms of recipes.

I enjoy Gourmet quite a bit, both from a food and from a travel point of view. It's also a good way of getting wired into current trends in food in restaurants. They're a high-paying market so the quality of the writing is really high and occasionally comes from people on the fringes of the traditional food world like Pat Conroy or Tony Bourdain. I let my sub lapse this year because I was falling behind but will probably re-up because I miss it.

Saveur is a little younger, a little hipper, but I don't find myself cooking from it as much. Good travel pieces, with accompanying food, and a lot of light breezy pieces that make it good bathroom reading. If I could fuse Gourmet and Saveur, I'd probably have my perfect food mag, but for now, Gourmet edges it out in terms of quality and overall food appeal.

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

Whoops, with CI, I meant "no advantage to getting a subscription." (The price difference between newsstand and sub is only 5%.)

[youvebeenpixied.livejournal.com]

I second Epicurious. I suggest it to everyone who asks.

[roozle.livejournal.com]

I havta plug the gorgeous food blog (by a friend of mine, yes I'm biased) habeusbrulee.com

I get a lot of useful recipes out of Cooking Light (which is not really all that healthy despite the title, probably why I find it works for me...)

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

I like allrecipes.com because of the comments section where people modify recipes and say what worked and what didn't.

[heinleinfan.livejournal.com]

I second or third or whatever epicurious.com, it's fabulous.

Also, for guilty pleasures and simple, middle class to white trash, open-a-couple-of-cans-of-campbells-and-dump-them-in-a-casserole type cooking (which I grew up on and still love) I go to cooks.com. That site has the *most* annoying popups ever, so have a good popup blocker on. Usually I use these recipes as starters for things I add to...I'll leave out the campbell's soup and make my own roux, for example, or something like that.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

I used to really love Bon Appetit, but I haven't subscribed or read it in years.

I think the best food blog I've yet seen is Tigers & Strawberries; there are no new food entries right now, because she's a little distracted by a premature child, but you can explore tons of categories down the right-hand side. Enjoy.

[youvebeenpixied.livejournal.com]

Bless you for posting the Tigers & Strawberries link! I am going to have to make Aphrodite Cakes soon.

[jacflash.livejournal.com]

One more vote for the CI empire (not just CI itself -- the red-state version of CI, Cook's Country, is a riot, and sometimes very useful) and Epicurious.

[vinnie-tesla.livejournal.com]

Cooking with Monkey!

(thanks for not locking this post)

[rapha.livejournal.com]

http://www.epicurious.com/ and Bon Appetit and Gourmet!! They rock!

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Do you mean Dairy Goat Journal?

[sarahshevett.livejournal.com]

Strangely, since myself, my husband and my son are all involved in various food related industries, we don't spend much time reading about it. We do spend a lot of time discussing all facets, though.
The only food related website I even spend any time on ( besides cheesemaking and dairy related sites and magazines) is

http://www.megnut.com/

[katestine.livejournal.com]

FoodNetwork.com

I have an online subscription to Cook's Illustrated, which gives you a searchable archive of their issues that I highly recommend.