At one time I got Gourmet, Bon Appetite, Cuisine, Cooks Illustrated and something more local....can't remember the name. I was drowning in cooking magazines!
Finally I dumped them all for what I find on line....whcih is lots. There are many find food blogs!

I agree with lindac92. If I want a recipe, I look online.

Hubby donates to many charities and gets free subscriptions for his donations. So, I receive many cooking magazines. I don't read them at all, but my maids love them, so I gift them to the girls!

Having 3 surgeries this month with 2 overnight stays, so I might just bring them with me for some mindless reading. Maybe I'll get inspired!

I take food magazines to read when we make the 3 hour drive to Elery's son's home. Right now my favorite is Fine Cooking. I also get Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country.

I did not renew Food and Wine, Bon Appetit and Food Network. Amanda wanted Rachel Ray and then didn't care for that because of the zillion ingredient recipes. And now I get an email from Kraft, which says they are merging with Heinz and they want to sell me THEIR magazine. Yeah, like I'll pay for a magazine when the only function is to pitch their products. Ahem.

Annie

Favorites are Cooking Light and Cooks Illustrated. The latter satisfies my inner geek. Love the offerings in Real Simple and Ladies Home Journal.

I'm also up to my ears in food magazines and cookbooks! I really should go cold turkey for a couple years.

party_music50 I totally agree! Bloggers don't get it! They take so long to load and they are soooooo wordy! Like we care what their kids did today or where they went on vacation! Disgusting!

I google and find a lot of recipes that are easy to read and load, and often I just substitute what I have on hand.

I agree about recipes on blogs. What in the world is the reason for posting 15 pics of the same dish? Esp when they are all of the finished dish, not step-by-step pics which are sometimes nice when preparing something that has tricky or technical steps. I never read blogs, except Victoria Elizabeth Barnes who doesn't do food anyway, and just wade through them to find the recipe text.

My biggest beef about magazines of any kind is that along with the very first issue you get and ever after, they keep trying to get more subscriptions from you. Nag, nag, nag.

My biggest gripe with food magazines is you have to store them...even if you cut out the recipe you are interested in. But with blogs and websites...it's a click away when you want it and "POOF!" gone when you don't
And yeah...some blogs are more about the "words" than the recipe....but many are not. Are you familiar with Ann T's Blog? Thibault's Table?
Not much easier way to find a recipe....and I will vouch for every one I have tried.
http://www.thibeaultstable.com/2010/01/recipe-index.html

I don't care for blogs at all. They take a LONG time to load and, without fail, they all seem to post at least 12 photos of whatever it is they're talking about on the page. Overkill and boring.

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I had a food blog for a few years and I could not agree with you more. Between the BLAH BLAH BLAH and litany of vanity photos (which are generally almost identical!), I get irritated just wanting to get to the meat of the post, which is: What's in it and how did you make it?

Is that so much to ask?

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I will sometimes pick up a food magazine at the store if it looks interesting, and even buy it, but I don't make recipes out of them. I do occasionally make recipes out of Sunset, which always has a food section, but isn't a food magazine. Their recipes are extremely variable, but the ones I've chosen to make because they sounded like good recipes, actually were good. Their layouts also have interesting ideas. Come to think of it, when I was young, my mother gave me a couple of their compilation books and those were pretty good too. I was able to adapt a lot of recipes from the Mexican one, which she sent me while I was living abroad and foodily homesick, to the local ingredients which did not include tortillas (or way to make them at home), lettuce, pinto beans, etc.

I like blog recipes. Not all, of course, but I've made or adapted many more recipes I've found on blogs than in magazines, and they've come out much better when they're for something I didn't previously have a clue on. The trick is, first and foremost, a great high speed connection so the photos load right away because I wouldn't be able to just sit there waiting for photo load, either. You can set your browser to skip the pictures, but there's a lot of information in them as you scroll down, so doing that isn't a perfect fix either. Given the connection, however, scroll down to the end where they either have a normally formatted recipe or link to it, or link to "printer friendly version". I often don't read the blog at all, or only go back and skim it when I've decided the recipe looks like what I want to make. Oh, I guess that's something to...I get recipes from blogs mostly when I have something I want to make and go searching for a good recipe. If I don't know what I want to make and just want to read about food, I open a book. :)

How funny this comes up....I was in a waiting room for an over-due oil change and picked up a food mag...i stole it, lol...it had a few recipes i needed but now have no idea where it is....on-line is easier tagged and saved...(it was months old so i did not feel so horrid about taking it)...and my car just broke down crossing central park last week and had to be towed and is still over-heating....

Hope you didn't give them a credit card when you signed up, because now it's an automatic renew. (Small print)

I got the subscription through Amazon!

I'd forgotten about Cooking Light, I have that and I like it. There are usually a couple of recipes in each issue that I at least try.

I don't care for blogs either, and I can't manage to get a recipe from Pinterest. There is a pretty picture, and a link to a blog, where you read three pages before you find that they got the recipe from ANOTHER blog, and you click the link and read some more. It's just too frustrating. So, I neither blog nor do Pinterest, which is a time sucker.

Yeah, I know. I'm a fuddy-duddy. I still like magazines and cookbooks. (sigh)

Sushipup, that's a pet peeve of mine. I'm never, ever, ever signing up on line with a credit card, nearly all of the magazines have automatic renewal, drives me crazy.

Annie

I stopped taking food magazines a few years ago. As others have mentioned, I was running out of storage space. About once a year, I'd grab all my issues along with a scissors and clip out the recipes I thought were worthwhile keeping. Then about another year later, I'd go through my files of clipped recipes and weed out the ones that I didn't think I'd ever really make. And on and on it went. Even to this day. Just not magazine recipes but ones printed from the internet.

I agree with the blog criticisms. I despise the monetized ones because I have to spend so much time scrolling past the ads or clicking the "close" button. I hate plowing through 8 - 10 pictures of the finished dish or something like a pic of onion being chopped followed by another pic of garlic being minced. I don't mind a line or two about family but not much more. I actually appreciate some info about freezing, re-heating, ingredients substitutions, etc. It's also annoying to discover recipes that are totally lifted from another source without any acknowledgement.

I know I have a tendency to get a bit long-winded even though I try to edit superfluous verbiage. My goal is really to offer helpful and encouraging advice regarding low sodium ingredients and techniques. Definitely no vanity photos but I love that phrase. I always marvel when I accidentally take a picture that looks good.

I do enjoy the "Jennie Can Cook" blog.