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I love food magazines, but lack the space to keep them, so I started tearing out interesting recipes and taping them into a spiral-bound notebook to keep, instead. It saves me a TON of space, and it's one-stop-inspiration when I don't know what to make for dinner. The drawback is that things aren't organized by season, or even type, but that can be part of the fun.

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We've definitely been inspired by old food magazines over at our blog, Big Girls, Small Kitchen. There's an issue of Bon Appetit from 2000 I always come back to, and an current favorite—seared scallops—got a nice new rendition after a weekend spent in a friend's food magazine archives: http://www.biggirlssmallkitchen.com/2009/07/big-girls-test-kitchen-summer-scallops.html

I keep a small handful of food magazines that are of the special issue variety: a few exclusively on Italian foods and a couple of Thanksgiving issues. I have gone back to these issues time and time again-that is why I keep them.

Ugh, I have PILES. Love looking through them, and do occasionally try a new recipe. And of course I have certain ones I use again and again. My goal- which currently has no deadline and may never happen- is to go through them all and rip out everything I want to save and put them in a book/folder and throw out the rest...

@BrooklynBaker, I have a similar stash (ripped out of mags, printed from blogs). I would hate to be injured or ill but I wonder if I'll ever go through it all and organize if I'm not bedridden. I think it would take a month of Sundays.

@vhsdr: if it's boring and self-evident, why read it? why comment on it?

really now.

Here, here kaitlin. I almost wanted to respond to the same poster but didn't want to acknowledge his/her comments.

I tend to keep all my Bon Appetits and other random cooking magazines (although I am admittedly running out of room!). They are on the shelf by month, so when I am having a summer party, say, I can easily grab all the July and August issues to flip through.

Probably self-evident, but it works for me.

I love looking through my old magazines. They're in a high-up cupboard in my kitchen, arranged by date. Once in a while, I'll go through them all and recycle those that I know haven't used in ages, but I still refer to some for ideas/inspiration.

There are some absolute classics in olds magazines -- e.g., Nick Malgieri's Swiss Christmas Cookies (not included in any of his books), an Austrian goulash soup supper (still make it today)... both from old 1980s Gourmet magazine issues...

I tend to tear out articles, because old magazines can take over your home...

I'm a food magazine hoarder, but I've also found a net alternative,

www.taste.com.au

They are all in Australian measurements but this site takes recipes from the recipe magazines you can buy at supermarkets/newsagents and puts them online. Its great fr when I can remember reading a recipe but don't know which magazine its in- I just find the recipe online.
However they don't have all the recipes from the magazines, so I have to keep them too :)