Foodie Magazines (1,134 views)

I love Fine Cooking, too. I buy those at the market. <Who can resist?>

I know of a way to capture the recipes, month by month, page by page. Fairly easily. Well, it was...back when RecipeFox was operational that I could grab a month-at-a-time within a short period of time.

But even so, the method still works for saving myself from scanning or typing a recipe. I found that, at Eat Your Books website (I pay a yearly fee...not much...but they might have free to test trial) and I put up a 'bookshelf' -- a list -- of all the cookbook, magazines, blogs I have or subscribe to...or even just buy regularly.  


Eat Your Books keeps track of various book, mags, blogs...and will post the index of what's in them; the recipe names, links to where to find the recipes online (if poss) by month's issue. SO, say I want to have a text copy of a recipe from June Fine Cooking issue, I see if they have the contents 'indexed'  (OH and they notify me by email when something that is on my bookshelf is recently indexed !!) and i open to see, for instance, the index they have provided of the June issue of FC...which will tell me the names of the recipes, which pages number inside mag, a list of ingredients for each recipe...AND a link to the FULL recipe at Fine Cooking's website (for June).

Not all things are indexed yet. You can click a button to ask that something *be* indexed.  I found that the most popular mags are indexed!  (It's a good thing and reasonably priced... as I recall, maybe $25 a year...or less. 2 gals started the service several years ago. Again, that service is online Eat Your Books. You can also share your own reviews there and see other peoples'.  If you are trying to capture recipes from magazines, that is one easy way. 

PS: I take no responsibility whether or not this post, or any I make this week, make sense or are concise enough. Far too much excitement, far too little time--living on coffee and nerves...little sleep. But hey, it's a good thing.     

PS: Gecko -- Sure happy to see you are back with us.  You have been missed.  Welcome and hugs.  

I would love to sub to Fine Cooking, come to think of it.  Any more news of deals like that?  I wouldn't be able to resist. Please share if you know of any, thanks. (I think we all share your same vices in some fashion or another.)       (And www.cookbooker.com I still love that FREE place and the member's reviews of books/mags/blog recipes. Too bad the owner couldn't stay with it and it kinda just sits there, but people still post. I mean, it exists. Owner/maker must be paying for it to remain there. Love that.)

Tears in my eyes!!  Wha?   No buy cookbooks?  What about ebooks?  I cannot resist them either...especially if they are ebooks. (If there were quality done-up Mastercook books, I'd buy those, too! Course, I don't *have* to buy em, people send them to me free...my recipe buddies. hehe)  Hmm.... I will buy whatever comes along. My husband doesn't mind because he says it keeps me busy... (off the streets and outta the bars...LOL)
I have great libraries here, too. I check out...and renew and have shelves for them here, etc. I get cooking ebooks from the library, too. I am really, really, really, seriously an addict. But I love it somehow. It's what I do.  

I no longer get get any food magazines (I have to check, I think I might have FN Mag on hold). In fact I think the only mag I get is Time. I just don't want to deal with the clutter and the waste of paper. When I get a tablet, I might subscribe to a magazine or two. : )  I was on an airplane a few weeks back and the man next to me was reading a cooking mag, I loved the feature that you could click on the recipe and it would save it for you.

I do check the CL site and since it has the recipe index for reach issue -- and I still try some CL recipes that way.

I know with me, if I got a magazine, I would cut out recipes that looked interesting, and the pile would get bigger and bigger, and barely be touched. Been there, done that. : )

This is not saying I haven't been tempted. And I have caved, especially when I can get some mags free thru using airline points/other offers.

I get WAY too many food magazines, but as due dates are coming up, many of them will not be renewed. These are in my current pile"

Vegetarian Times
Cooking Light
Every day with Rachael Ray
Food & Wine
Saveur

I greatly dislike the pretentious tone of Food & Wine and Saveur and those won't be renewed. I never have liked Rachael Ray, and am on the fence with CL. The issue I got this week actually had several recipes that looked do-able for me. I will always get VT, as it gets me out of my box sometimes. I am currently not subscribing to Eating Well, and that's another favorite of mine.

Better Homes & Gardens, Real Simple and Southern Living all get delivered to my mailbox, and I flip through them mostly for the recipes. These were all free subs and I will not be renewing them.

Mother Earth Living isn't really a cooking magazine, but there are often healthy recipes and creative uses for herbs, so it's keeper for me along with Mother Earth News.

WAY too many periodicals and I hardly read any of them right now.

I have often thought of re-subscribing to Cooking Light but I found that when they did there makeover all the covers started looking the same. I barely know when a new issue comes out since they always seem to have a color palate of yellow and red. I'd love to see them step out of the box and have some covers like these - of course I'm a little biased since they are both Australian magazines, but I just love the styling 

I get many of those mentioned here, both in print and some on my iPad and nook...but my very favorite is the magazine put out by Donna Hay...it comes out of Australia and I have every issue from it's beginning...it was a birthday pressie from my Aussie MIL many years ago

I subscribe to Bon Appetit, Fine Cooking (added the $6 deal for myself and my Mom) and Food Network. I used to subscribe to more magazines, but I can't part with them easily and after moving over 1000 lbs of cookbooks and magazines (twice!) DH suggested I might want to dial it back a little. LOL.

I will pick up random issues of other magazines if they look interesting, e.g. Eating Well, Saveur, Cooks Illustrated, etc. LOVE the Australian magazines, such as Delicious, Taste, and Donna Hay, but they are hard to find around here and subscriptions from Canada are super expensive. Probably a good thing!

I received her first cookbook as a gift but haven't tried making any recipes yet. Do you have a favourite recipe that you would recommend?

My favourite cookbook is also vegetarian (with vegan options) and I am as far from vegetarian as it gets. You might enjoy the Rebar Modern Food Cookbook, if you like vegetarian recipes. There used to be a love thread for this cookbook on the old CLBB. Might have to start one up over here now. 😄

Thanks for the cookbook suggestion --- always interesting to learn of someones favorite. Off to check to see if my library has it (or can order). I love checking out cookbooks from the library (in print or for my kindle) -- and ok I have caved a few times over the years and buy the book if I end of loving it.

$6 deal for Fine Cooking is back again! Today only. Just got an email. Don't know if this link will work...

subscribe.finecooking.com/magazine/theme/flash16/source/WX3997EM?source=wx3997em&tp=i-H43-BC-nX-3Vt9u-1o-4SKy-1c-3VqC2-28GRK8&utm_campaign=fc-holiday-2016&utm_source=email&utm_medium=emarketing&utm_content=fc-mag-sub-flash-expires&cid=3071&mid=51929210

Thanks for the info Beth.

Well, drat. Missed the FC offer. Oh well, probably for the best anyway.

I currently only subscribe to CL. I used to get America's Test Kitchen but I found I wasn't really cooking anything from the magazines. I bought their cookbook, transferred the notes from the recipes I had made, and passed on the magazines. I subscribed to Rachel Ray and Eating Well when they first came out, also Martha Stewart for a couple years but eventually let the subscriptions lapse.

Being a family of two, I find CL generally has plenty for me to choose from, and if I need a bit of inspiration or something specific, there's always the internet and/or Pinterest. What I HAVE found lately with cooking light (since about Sept? Oct?) is I'm cooking my way through the magazine. I just got my Jan/Feb issue, and I'll be working my way through this one too. Yay!

Ooooh, I would love to hear results of this 'cooking my way through' magazine talk. I'm fascinated, in fact.
If anybody ever wants to post results of a mag or book's list, holler and I'll be happy to see if I can come up with the INDEX of said book or mag. (I have my ways...sometimes.)

SPEAKING OF WHICH...I found a Facebook page devoted to ONE COOKBOOK. They cook their way through. I'll have to post about that in another thread...since this is mag thread. MERRY CHRISTMAS!