Food Network Magazine!

I'm a fan of Everyday Food magazine. The food is really simple, so it's the kind of food that I can cook between work and night classes.

I'm a big fan of Food & Wine magazine. If you're into wine at all... It has wonderful recipes. And wine pairings.

I have to second Everyday Food, as I always learn at least one thing I didn't know and almost everything I make out of it is a winner. I especially love how you learn about an item that is fresh that month and 5-6 recipes featuring it. This month was on mangos and I've made their Green Mango Salad three times in the last couple of weeks. On top of all that, it's small and easy to handle.

Vegetarian Times - even if you're not vegetarian, you can always use the recipes as side dishes.

I second VT! They're also running a special for new subscribers--2 free issues for the price of 9!

Everything in there looks really good, and I have really good luck with the recipes on their website (which are actually archives from their mag)

I really like Fine Cooking.

My favorite cook-from-it, learn-from-it food mag is Cook's Illustrated. You don't get the food lifestyle articles or glossy pictures, but I love reading the evolution of recipes, the trial-and-error, and then cooking using the honed recipe.

eating well magazine is my absolute favorite. everyday food, cooking light, and food & wine are all great, too!

Everyday Food is fantastic. I subscribe to Food Network and Rachael Ray's magazines as well, simply to get my magazine fix; however, neither are as good as Everyday Food as the focus isn't solely on quality food. You've already mentioned Cook's Illustrated, which no cook should be without!

Sometimes at the library sale they have stack of magazines that have been donated. The early editions of Gourmet are really fun to read - not new, but 'new' nonetheless and can take you to a place where history meets food and newness meets pretentiousness and... history.

also if you are a carnivore, this out-there magazine is really fun to read, check it out:

http://www.meatpaper.com/

I really like Fine Cooking, Food Network Magazine, and Everyday. All of the recipes are very good...I also like Rachael Ray.. Have you tried Cook's Country too? I think that is a version of Cook's Illustrated...there are so many off shoots that they are hard to keep track of! Cuisine At Home is another fabulous mag...

Cooking Light has redesigned recently, so you might want to give it another try. I really like the new layout.

On the other hand, I think Vegetarian Times has really gone downhill in the last year. I still get it, but I never make anything out of it anymore. There aren't that many recipes, and the ones that it does have are usually either too complicated for a weeknight or too familiar.

I really appreciate this question and the answers! I currently subscribe to Cooking Light but am not really a huge fan of how much emphasis they place on meat despite the fact that they keep urging their readers to eat less meat.

One way to explore some of the options before making a final decision would be to pay a visit to the local public library; I know that mine subscribes to many of the magazines mentioned.

I'm a sucker for UK publications at the moment. My favourite mag of the moment is Food Illustrated (by Waitrose). I'm also really liking a new food journal called Fire & Knives. And if you're interested in Canadian publications perhaps Canadian Living is not exclusively food-related but it has A LOT of really great and well tested recipes (they put out fabulous cookbooks too!).

I also like Everyday Food, but two new ones that I really, really like are Clean Eating and Eating Well. Both obviously health related, and they have some fantastic recipes in them.

Thanks to everyone for the great suggestions! I forgot that I used to subscribe to Everyday Food - I love the concept, but want something more substantial.

I'm also a fan of the overseas stuff and would get Donna Hay in a heartbeat (and Jamie Oliver!) if they didn't cost $100/year!

I'll definitely be checking out Fine Cooking asap.

Fine Cooking has been the best replacement (even though I was getting it before Gourmet went under) I have found. I save all issues of FC and Saveur, and tear sheets from Bon Appetit and Food Wine.

I think Gastronomica is brilliant for reading. Cooks Illustrated is very good although I only buy it sporadically. There's Donna Hay's magazine, although I am not a huge huge fan of her recipes, they're pretty basic, I do sometimes enjoy her aesthetic.

Seeing as how you read the titles you do and "used" to read Cooking Light (I did too), I don't think you'd be interested in any Food Network publications.

There's Sunset, which sometimes has some decent recipes, although it's more lifestyle-oriented.

Other than that, I'd stick to the blogs.

I second the recommendation of Eating Well. Everyday food also often has some good recipes.

But I'm also a food blog junkie, and I find that with the.. erm... 40 food blogs that get sent to my rss reader, those two magazines (plus vegetarian times, which i'm not so pleased with after my first issue) are plenty.

I love fine cooking and food wine

I subscribe to Olive and both the UK and Australian versions of Delicious magazine :)

I also pick up Donna Hay Magazine sometimes

http://info.olivemagazine.co.uk/
http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/
http://www.taste.com.au/delicious/
http://www.donnahay.com.au/magazine/index.php

I'm in the UK and am always jealous when I hear about US magazines that I can't afford!

I subscribe to Jamie Oliver which I love, the recipes and photography are gorgeous. I also subscribe to Olive, and end up buying BBC Good Food and Delicious almost every month. Out of them all, Jamie is my favourite.

1. Edible <area>
http://www.ediblecommunities.com/content/
I am a big fan of my Edible Rhodie (living in Rhode Island) it's a quarterly celebrating local food season by season
It's a great opportunity to support a great mag.

2. Epicurious - ipad/iphone
I prefer the Epicurious experience on the iphone. and by the screenshots for the ipad it looks to be awesome http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/01/conde-nast-cooks-up-a-tasty-digital-cookbook-with-the-epicurious-ipad-app/

I love Food & Wine!

Food and Wine and Saveur!

Does anyone remember when Chow was a magazine, that was my favorite!

I never liked having a subscription to Cooks Illustrated, with it being bimonthly. I tended to flip through a new issue at the store, and if anything stuck out, I would pick it up. I found myself buying four or less per year, which to me didn't justify needing it mailed to the house.

I get Everyday Food, and Martha Stewart Living. I've been looking into Saveur, or Food and Wine. I tend to buy single issues of things at the store and if I find myself buying more than a couple, then I subscribe.

I like Cuisine at Home. The recipes are a little more interesting and elaborate than the ones you see in Everyday Cooking, but still reasonable for a home cook. Several of my new favorites came from Cuisine at Home. My only criticism is that the magazine is fairly short compared to some other food magazines, and they have a very limited web site. When I first subscribed to Cuisine at Home, when it first started, they promised a comprehensive web site with all of the recipes, and that has not materialized.

I subscribe to Gastronomica and Art Culinaire. I do NOT recommend Gastronomica for most people, as it is more about food culture than actual recipes. Art Culinaire is very high-end, but definitely the most amazing food magazine you can get.

I have to agree with someone who suggested Cook's Country-it really is a great magazine. I cook much more from it than I do Cook's Illustrated.

I recently recycled all of my issues of Eating Well, Cooking Light, Bon Appetit, Food and Wine, and Gourmet. I can find pretty much all of the recipes online, and it's easier to search by keyword, etc.

Now I just have to refrain from buying new ones, even when they look all shiny and promising on the stand by the checkout line.

You can't go wrong with Fine Cooking.

I agree on Vegetarian Times -- it's gotten better over the last couple of years. Also, I'm sorry to hear you don't like Bon Appetit, because I just subscribed to it! At only $1 an issue, hopefully it won't be too awful.

One question is what you're looking for -- are you looking mainly for recipes, or also for good food writing? I think Gourmet was great on the latter, which many of the recommendations are not.

I don't really like Everyday Foods -- the recipes are too much the same every month, and not very adventurous.

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I'm a fan of Taste of Home, Cook's Country and my current favorite is Taste of the South.