jerzeegirl, I just got my final issue and there was no advance warning, even for subscribers. (sigh) The message said that all issues left on my subscription would be transferred to "Eating Well". This is the third time this has happened with subscription magazines. First it was the Martha Stewart "Every Day" food, then it was "Organic Gardening", and now "Cooking Light". They just transfer the remaining issues to another of their magazines, which I don't usually want.

I AM sad about "Cooking Light", I actually got a couple of my favorite recipes from them.

Annie

Oh how horrible. I have an online subscription to Cooking Light meal plans. But it and Eating Well are very similar, so if they have the same publisher, I can see why they would consolidate. I often wondered how the market could support two such similar magazines. However, I always thought Cooking Light was the superior magazine. I use a lot of their recipes. Wonder if they will keep their web site going?

I really liked Kenji Lopez-Alt's columns and I learned a lot from him. I hope he will get transferred to Eating Well. In the meantime, I have an online subscription to the NYT cooking column, which I love, but there is nothing light about their recipes...lol. It's the anti-Cooking Light.

I used to subscribe years ago but found that their recipes had so many corrections in subsequent issues that I couldn't really trust the recipes I had. I think on line at least you can fix it if it has an error. I wasn't about to go through the recipes I'd cut out to check and see if they published corrections.

I have stacks and stacks of recipes I have ripped out of their magazine. I love their recipes (and I loved the articles), but Eating Well is good too. It was my goal to get to a certain weight and then maintain by eating something more than that which has my extra weight coming off. I figured I would feel pampered eating those recipes. And when I do make one, it does fell nice. I made a full fat version (I don't serve fatfree on holidays to guests ;) of their cranberry swirl cheesecake just this week. It's so amazing, I know the healthier version is still going to be quite tasty. Sad to see the magazine go!

I'm glad to see that their online recipes seem to have moved to the eating well site. I have three or four favorites that came from there originally, but for sure I'm going to save them as pdfs now.

Cranberry Jezebel was originally published in Cooking Light. I know Linda shared it here, so it's attributed to her which is fine.

I used to participate on the Cooking Light bulletin board. That folded a couple years ago.

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs008/1101189349792/archive/1101874954685.html

I thought Cranberry Jezebel originated with the Chicago Tribune?

If you want to get your subscription money back, you can cancel the magazine you've been transferred to.

And yes, people want the info, but they want it online, not as clutter in the house that they have to go through, cut recipes out of, and save in binders. And they don't want to worry about their lovely magazines getting wrecked or stolen with old fashioned mailboxes. And they don't want to have to remember to pick one up at the store, when they buy more at the farmers market and CSA and delivery services. Ad money goes where the eyeballs are.

Mannnnn ... what a bummer.

That’s too bad. I got it for a while and enjoyed it, but let it lapse because I neither can stand having magazines accumulate, nor have the ability to throw them out. Down to just F&W. Anyway I felt they had a very reasonable approach to cooking, well, light.

DS still mourns "Lucky Peach", a foodie magazine.

Lucky peach looks like it was an interesting, fun magazine.

This is the second magazine I subscribed to that went down the tubes. The first was in 1988 - a little magazine called Good Food. I still have some of the recipes. There was a quesadilla recipe that we still make and it was first time I ever saw a recipe for no-churn strawberry ice cream.

ya know ... it just points out how some entrepreneurial ventures are just precarious by nature.

we have one of those keep-it-local cards they sell for 50 bucks, touting hundreds of dollars in savings over the year. probably 40 vendors on it. every time you turn around, one of the vendors with a 'useful' coupon .... has folded. it's the 'kiss of death' to be on the card, it seems.

I will not miss the magazine as much as I miss the online forum CL had. I learned the magazine would be ending at the end of this year back in September, but they gave just a few days notice of the website being taken down. Now, even if I have a recipe saved, I keep finding myself wishing I had all the comments and discussion. Just a lot of lost information there. I do have a good number of CL recipes that have become standards for us -- including one with Brussels Sprouts that was part of my DH's conversion from a hater to an eater.

bragu -- you've notice that about those discount cards too, huh? LOL

Magazines are suffering not from poor entrepreneurship, unless they were launched recently, but from the difficulties in adapting to the digital world. They have to find ways to monetize their online publication that will suit their readers and bring in enough revenue to stay afloat. Changing from paper/newstand/psubscription ad driven format to digital/streaming/multiplatform eyeball grabbing/not so good ad revenue/reluctant subscribers/freeloaders/how do we pay for staff? is basically a complete redesign of what they do, who their revenue base is and what the revenue mechanisms are, and some never figure it out. Given that the web is highly driven by free content, this is a big problem when you have professionals on staff who expect real pay.

Those discount cards? For sure they're the death knell. Giving discounts is the act of the desperate.

I haven't even gotten my final issue of Cooking Light yet. Maybe they couldn't afford postage?

plllog I'm one of those who loves to cut out recipes and put them in a binder! I find that if I don't have them either ripped out of a magazine or printed out, I forget about them!

I'm sure I have a bunch of things saved on my allrecipes file, but I never bother to look at them!

I guess I'm an old fart!

lol. Well i'm in the same old fart boat then, because I do the same thing. I have my recipes on Dropbox and I have web sites with recipes and I just never think to look there. I keep my most used recipes in a very disorganized binder.

Nancyjane, I do that too! The recipes in the binder. One day I went through my tear sheets, however, and typed them all into the computer. I also did the ones my mother wrote out, and save the ones I get from the web or forum there. Since they're local on my computer, they feel more "mine" than the ones I've tried saving in an app or web utility, and that way they can't disappear on me. Even when my computer was on the fritz, I knew they were safe inside. :) I print as needed, and then put in the binders, instead of the tear sheets. Though I've accumulated some since, especially from packaging. :)

The mobile generation, however, puts them in their phones, in the cloud, or what have you, and have Siri/Google/Alexa/Cortana reading them back because the phone is too small to see while working. :) And they don't want paper and think that voice messages are rude because they actually have to stop and listen, rather than skimming a text while doing four other things. Imagine what it might be like for them to have to turn pages in a paper magazine! Especially if it isn't all on one page and with lots of graphics to keep them from actually having to read verbiage....

They took down the Web site!!! Now that is real woe. Well at least I saved some actual recipes in my binder . . . . :) Cautionary tale about the realities of the Interweb, it is ephemeral. Can I go to the library to look at old editions . . . ?

I may just have to crack open one of my 50 or so cookbooks . . . or peruse the files on my computer, or mine the file box of clipped recipes I inherited from mom . . . or peruse some of my old issues in my home library.

lascatz- I'm wondering if you were to google the full name of the recipe if it would come up with the comments. I know the magazine website is gone but perhaps the recipes themselves are still out there.

I'm a little confused by the last two posts. The recipes moved to eatingwell.com, as I posted earlier in this thread. At least all the ones I've looked for have been there if you search the site. Are some not there?

I couldn't find any of mine on eatingwell.com. I used to use the great Cooking LIght recipe search engine all the time until they moved to Cozi and no longer had the same recipe search. Cooking Light died for me back then. I would gladly have paid a subscription for their recipe library with their search capability. Fortunately my saved recipes moved to Cozi and are still there and they link to MyRecipes. However when I search for a few of them on eatingwell they don't appear.

3katz4me, what is the exact title of one of your recipes, that you can't find on Eating Well?

This is a new site linked to a diet.

https://www.cookinglight.com/food/recipe-finder

https://www.cookinglight.com/magazine/recipe-index-archive

Bow Tie Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes, Capers and Basil or Beef and Guinness Stew. I entered each of these in their search bar and got this kind of result: 0 results for "beef and guinness stew"

So has a CookingLight subscription now morphed into CookingLightdiet meal plan subscription?

Hmm, no, I don't find those on their site nor with a google search, either, 3katz.

Is this it? I used "Google" and this popped up.

https://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/bow-tie-pasta-with-cherry-tomatoes-capers-basil

I have usually found stuff by searching on google and comparing ingredients. I suggest as you find them to print a hard copy. I have lost a lot of stuff over the years (not just recipes) as the web sites go belly up and sink. If you like it, make a hard copy.

If you click onto Sherry's link the recipe comes up and says right on it "recipe by Cooking Light". And the comments and reviews are there as well

Yes, as I mentioned above all my saved recipes are in Cozi with links to MyRecipes. I just mentioned that they aren't on eatingwell.com. I have hard copies of most but not all so was glad to see I can still access the ones I have saved.

Oh I misunderstood. Sorry

What about the ones you haven't saved? Have you googled those?

I just went to the cooking light web site. There is an archive. I was upset because I haven't received the final issue but I can still access it on line. Here is the link the December. December 2018 Cooking Light

jeerzeegirl, you need to contact them about the last issue, it will probably be a collector's issue and you paid for it anyway.

I tried contacting them. I sent an email to Meredith Publishing (Cooking Light Division) last week and the email went through but I still have not received a reply.

blfenton -- I think I am good on having saved recipes that I wanted to keep, but where I tried to save discussions -- about recipes or other things, I later found out my saves didn't work. Some of those discussions reflected on events -- I remember posting on 9/11 and at other significant times. I would have liked to have been able to keep that bit of history.