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I love Cooks Illustrated for actual information... The analysis and food science they provide is fantastic. My roomie gets Real Simple, and they've got pretty pictures and some very handy tricks for everyday meals, but when I want to dig in with vicarious food travel and sumptuous photos... it's all about Saveur for me.

I actually read Cooking Light. I scoffed when my mom first brought it home, but they're not afraid of butter or cream in moderation, and they have great ideas for showcasing the flavors of vegetables, rather than disguising them. They also have good food tourism spreads, for travel within the states. And of course, if a recipe looks tasty, but is too ascetic in its ingredient list, you can always use the full fat product. I never follow their recommendations for low fat cheeses, and generally swap yogurt in when they call for low fat or fat free sour cream.

Saveur even though it seems to have gone a little downhill since the editorial change.

Bon Appetit for the new restaurants and different trends in cities. And Everyday Food for the basics.

does smittenkitchen.com count?

cooks illustrated, my absolute favorite. and everyday food, especially for the sweets.

I'm not renewing my CookingLight subscription - the issues are so huge, that I never get through it all (also I get a lot of my recipes from blogs and the web now). But I still love Gourmet, and EatingWell is my go-to for seasonal ideas and weeknight recipes. I like that it comes every other month, and doesn't have too huge an amount of recipes... it gives me a chance to actually cook through several of the articles before I get the new issue.

Real Simple, Cooks Country, and Cooks Illustrated.

I usually browse through them right away, then save them for a rainy day when I can take in all their goodness!

Cuisine At Home, and I tear through it as soon as I get my hands on it.

The only thing I subscribe to is Real Simple, they have some yummy recipes. I am looking for an actual food magazine though, I think I'll try Cooks.

Food and wine magazine!

I'm a big CooksIllustrated (CI) fan...but after 3-4 years of a subscription...they are beginning to pile up and it's a hunt to find which magazine containes which recipe.

The other thing is that I don't cook much meat - and many of the recipes are meat focused. I love reading every issue front-to-back which is why I don't want to just subscribe to their online service...but I always think it would be great if they did a more veg-focused/ethnic version just for me. ;)

I was getting Gourmet for a year. I really enjoyed it - especially when they started doing a veg-focused section every month. But I can only cook and eat so much...

Gourmet and Food&Wine. I tend to flip through immediately and make note of anything I have to try... and then leave it on the coffee table for future perusal.

Saveur, for the pure enjoyment of reading about food, and Cooking Light for the recipes and healthy living content. I have also begun reading Martha Stewart's Everyday Food. They keep the recipes fairly simple, which is great for weeknight dinners.

Saveur.

I love LOVE Cuisine At Home. The recipes are so easy and the layout of the magazine is easy to follow. I love that they give you ideas for sides to serve with the main dish.

Oh and I LOVE the recipes on www.simplyrecipes.com

Seriously, go check it out, there are tons of good ones on that site.

Cooks Illustrated, Bon Appetit, Edible Brooklyn and Saveur

I get Food & Wine and Saveur. I find Food & Wine a lot more useful than Saveur, although Saveur is nice for food culture and interesting other ideas. I don't find it useful for cooking. I also like the epicurious/gourmet site for browsing articles and recipes.

Cooking Light!

Cook's Illustrated. Nothing else is really worth the time, other than the photos

Food & Wine for the fun cooking, and Everyday Food for the rest of it.

Eating Well... its a great combination of healthful recipes, articles on nutrition and beautiful photographs.

at our house at any given time: gourmet, food wine, bon appetit, saveur, cook's illustrated, everyday food, and edible brooklyn. we're a bit of a food reading repository.

Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country are the best -- I love all the experimentation. And I've recently started making the test recipes for Cook's Illustrated, which is pretty cool. (My first recipe was for stuffed mushrooms which were really tasty but way too much work for stuffed mushrooms.)

I also love Eating Well and even Cooking Light -- although I prefer Cooking Light's web site and use that as my go-to, weeknight cookbook.

Actually, most of the "magazines" come with web sites that are much more useful for the way I cook now.

Vegetarian Times is the only one I have a subscription to, but I also really like Cooking Light and Cook's Illustrated.

delicious, and BBC Good Food

in addition to the occasional Cook's Illustrated and Good Food

my favourite food magazine is no longer being published, but it was the one by Williams Sonoma that was out for a year or two (taste? can't remember what it was called...) -- it was fabulous!

...that is what is was: TASTE magazine, by Chuck Williams... so sad it is no longer around

Delicious out of Australia is expensive to ship but the recipes are really, really good and the photography alone is drool inducing.

I'm down to Everyday Food. I used to take Cook's Illustrated, Cook's Country, Cuisine at Home and Saveur. I'll be letting EF lapse when the subscription runs out. Honestly I'm getting better and more interesting recipes from the Internet these days. Why pay for a subscription to a magazine I'll look at a few times and then ignore when I can bookmark a recipe to ignore for free? :) And the bookmarks don't take up a whole shelf like my magazines do, either.

I gave up on Cook's after some hassles with them. They sent me a book I never ordered, then sent me "payment overdue" notices after I'd already returned it. And then when I let my subscription lapse they sent me issue after issue (and always the SAME issue) of "sample" magazines despite my calling them repeatedly to stop mailing me. If I were going to start reading again I'd just buy their annuals and skip the monthly subscription entirely.

Cook's Illustrated

Fine Cooking. By far the most informative and interesting one I've read.

Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country.