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| Publisher: Conde' Nast Publications
List Price: $48.90
Buy New: $15.00
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Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 47
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B00005N7QH
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 56
 Ugh - an aggressive catalog with a few bizarre recipes November 21, 2006
Violet C.W. (New Canaan, CT)
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
After falling in love with Gourmet's yellow cookbook, I subscribed to Gourmet, hoping for the same great classic recipes and commonsense commentary. Wow, what a disappointment. I have just received my second issue and, as another reviewer said, it is about 90% ads for high-end luxury goods like jewelry and cars. The 6-page "Special Advertisement Section" stops being so special when there are 20 of them in one issue! What happened, Ruth Reichl? The few recipes that one can find are unattractive and/or too difficult for even weekend cooking.
For those cooks looking for a great cooking magazine, I highly recommend Bon Appetit over Gourmet: the majority of the magazine is recipes and cooking tips, with only interspersed ads. I will be calling to see if I can get my subscription switched tomorrow.
 Not focused on food March 4, 2002
19 out of 27 found this review helpful
Gourmet focuses more on travel, it seems, than on food itself. I find a lot of extraneous material in this magazine which is out of reach for me; it seems targeted toward a jet set that can afford to travel and stay at top hotels and eat at top restaurants. Food seems incidental. I would recommend Bon Appetit over Gourmet for any serious cook. Gourmet seems to be more about tasting other people's food and dreaming about it rather than getting serious about cooking it yourself. A lot of pictures but not a lot of substance. Definitely a coffee-table magazine.
Would you like some recipes with your ads? December 21, 2005
S. Young (Bountiful, Utah USA)
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
Today I purchased my first and probably last issue of Gourmet. While there were plenty of recipes (some of which I won't use but they were still cool to look at) there were TONS of ads.
It makes you wonder either a) how much the people who make this magazine get paid or b) for all the ads why this isn't free.
I can see the need for a few ads so that we the consumers don't have to pay a fortune for a good magazine. But I took out 33 pages of ads and figured there were about 140 full page ads. That's over half of the magazine which is 260 pages. That's really sad.
Recipe wise, some of them look interesting and very gourmet, but there are things you need to have that I can't get in the middle of the U.S.
And about three of the six articles were interesting to read - when you could find them slipped inbetween their plethora of ads.
Fine Cooking is still the best one out there.
Didn't subscribe to read a lecture by a lawyer July 1, 2006
Essex (Connecticut)
19 out of 23 found this review helpful
First issue arrived today. After tearing up 8 or 9 insert ads which made it difficult to read the magazine, I sat back to enjoy. First article was a lecture by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the danger of mercury in fresh water domestic fish. Perfectly safe to fish we are informed (well duh). Just don't eat what you catch. Expectant mothers should be extra careful as babies with high level of mercury have lower IQs. The net is full of peer-reviewed studies from major universities on the subject of mercury poisoning. Why buy a food magazine to read what an activist lawyer has to say about the subject?
Next article was in: "Politics and the Plate". The controversy here concerns local and season foods. Gourmet asks: "Are those who promote them sincere? Or is it just a come on for gullible diners?" So who does Gourmet think is "gullible"? The reader? Implication seems to be the reader is too stupid to figure out that yes, vendors might promote locally grown products that aren't all that terrific. Nothing of substance in this article at all.
Going back to the front, an editor of Gourmet recalls how her late father didn't appreciate health food stores (Aren't fathers stupid?).
Three downer articles in a row. I gave up. This isn't the magazine I remember from 20 years ago. Even the format is annoying. It is difficult to know where ads end and articles begin (recall the most junked up website you've seen, that is the Gourmet model)
If you do enjoy the politics and the environmental stuff (on either side) you can do better on the net for free. If you want entertaining, informative articles on food, Gourmet is not the place to look.
Subscribed to Saveur at the same time as Gourmet. It is a pleasure to read. No annoying ads, no political screeds. Great photographs. Interesting and exotic recipes. As good or better than Gourmet was decades ago.
So where's the beef (or any other ingredient)? May 12, 2004
Kevin Kelley (San Jose, CA USA)
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
My very kind neighbor brings me her copy of Gourmet every month, along with the admonishment of, "I don't cook like this." Neither do I, but mostly because I cannot find the articles.With few exceptions, I have never seen a magazine with so many ads and so little content. Articles are sometimes strung out for pages and pages, just to force you to look at one more ad. This is annoying in a news magazine, but deadly in a cooking magazine. I found myself very confused following a recipe, only to discover on the "next page" a special advertising supplement that looks exactly like the recipe I was reading. When does anyone add mustard to a cake? Disaster struck. Some people probably swear by Gourmet, but my neighbor and I swear at it. I would give this 0 stars if Amazon allowed me.
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