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Last Days of Gourmet: In Pictures

We hope you're not feeling depressed this Tuesday morning. If you are, this set of photos from the last days at the Gourmet offices may put you over the edge. While we found them to be utterly melanch...

8 Treasures and Black Rice: Two Asian Rice Puddings
Gourmet

Cold weather comes around and we drift into rice pudding mode very quickly. It's comfort food, a nursery sweet. While our first allegiance is to Jane Grigson and Laurie Colwin's lemon rice pudding, we...

Have You Ever Tried Eggplant — For Dessert?

We're rather fascinated by this recipe for tarte tatin. See, it doesn't call for the traditional apples, or even pears or quince: it's topped with eggplant. What do you think? Does eggplant have desse...

Recipe Recommendation: Kemp's Black Beans

At the risk of overdoing the post-mortem Gourmet coverage, we're looking back at one of our favorite vegetarian recipes from the magazine: Kemp's Black Beans from Executive Food Editor Kemp Minifie. I...

Weekend Meditation: Cooking and Eating

When Gourmet was shuttered this week, the food blogs were ablaze with the news. Here in The Kitchn, we had a number of comments on our post. One in particular caught my eye. The commentor said that...

Applesauce Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
Gourmet

We don't know exactly what's going to happen to Gourmet's gorgeous, gorgeous website now that the magazine is closing. But we're getting our fix while we can, and this easy applesauce cake looks like ...

Mourning Gourmet? Blame the Internet, Says Kimball.
The Morning News for 10.9.09

Why did Gourmet go under? The newspapers and blogosphere are spinning with analysis. Christopher Kimball of Cook's Illustrated says it's the internet's fault, where we are now "ruled by a million inst...

Gourmet Magazine Closing

Condé Nast will announce today the folding of Gourmet Magazine. The November issue will be the last. A little slice of beauty and inspiration will go with it. Thank you for 68 great years. Res...

Minestrone Soup, Full of Leafy Greens
Recipe Review

We're not sure we've ever had two minestrones that tasted the same—which makes sense, because minestrone is really meant to be a hodgepodge. This Italian vegetable soup usually has tomatoes, white b...

Slow-Cooked Tomato and Herb White Beans
Recipe Review

Soupy beans with garlic, tomato, and thyme. We took one look at that recipe and description in Gourmet's latest issue, and we were hooked. ...

Red Wine Caramel Apples and Sweet Potato Gnocchi
Gourmet October 2009

We love seeing Ruth Reichl's ten favorite recipes in each issue of Gourmet, and this month's were particularly enticing. They all seem to be saying: Welcome fall! Here are three we just bookmarked to ...

Fluffy, Whole Wheat Blueberry Muffins
Recipe Review

These muffins from Gourmet are made with whole wheat pastry flour, which as we know from this post has a low protein content. That means you get a healthier muffin with a slightly richer flavor withou...

Gourmet's Favorite Cocktails 1941-2009
Gourmet

One of our favorite holiday cooking features last winter was Gourmet's look back at seven decades of their favorite cookie recipes. Well, right now they're doing the same for cocktails, and it's one o...

Recipe Review: Gourmet's Strawberry Dumplings

Summer fruit always leaves us with the same dilemma – we long for pies, cobblers and crumbles, but we hate to turn on the oven when we're already struggling to keep cool. Enter the stovetop fruit d...

Are Cookies the New Wedding Cake?
Gourmet

It's high wedding season. Was there wedding cake on your plate last weekend? Gourmet's contribution to wedding season is a nod to the newly popular tradition of a cookie buffet at a wedding. Have you ...

A Snow Cone-Like Cocktail from the 1950s
Gourmet

Gourmet has been running favorite cocktails from the 1940s to today, and this one (from November 1959) caught our eye immediately. Big surprise, huh? It looks like a rainbow slushy. But don't be foole...

At-Home Frappuccinos — the Vietnamese Way
Gourmet

Admit it, coffee purists. You fork over $5 for a Starbucks Frappuccino every once in a while. Or (West Coasters) an Ice Blended from Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. Sweetened coffee that's whizzed into a ...

Tip: Use Mushroom Stems in Your Next Omelet
Gourmet

All too often we slice the caps of our mushrooms and toss the stems. It's especially tempting when working with portabellas, where the wide, meaty caps are the the main event, and the stems are an aft...

Spring Dessert: Rhubart Tart with Orange Glaze

Take a look at this gorgeous tart, one more recipe from Gourmet's April 2009 issue. This tart is very, very easy. In fact, it makes use of a frozen ingredient you may unearth in your freezer during th...

Rosé Wines for Spring: Eight Pretty Picks

How beautiful is that photo? We wish we could recreate it for a happy hour, like, tonight. The article, from Gourmet, is about eight good bottles of rosé that provide a nice transition into spr...

Will Food Magazines Survive The Slump?

We're a cooking website, sure, but we still love the old-school cooking magazines. I have a few favorites stacked up here on my desk for inspiration, and I'm willing to pay for a select few to arrive ...

Look! Hot Toddy Pudding Cake at Gourmet

Hey, look at this! We can't imagine how good this must be — especially since it combines two of our very favorite things. ...

Blogging Gourmet: Grocery Shopping in a Recession

There is a short but interesting article on Gourmet's website about how one writer has done a 180 in how he shops for food. No more expensive ingredients and lofty recipe goals; now he shops without a...

Recipe Review: Butterscotch Pudding from Gourmet

We are officially obsessed with pudding and couldn't wait to try this recipe for a butterscotch version from Gourmet. To be honest, it was so easy and quick to make that we don't know why we waited as...

20 Tools That Have Changed Our Kitchens

Gourmet has a fascinating feature on their site right now: 20 tools and technologies that have changed our kitchens (and our cooking) since WWII. Here's a look at five of the more interesting inventio...

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