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Apr. 16th, 2008 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutI just read a comment elsewhere on someone's food blog deploring the current state of Gourmet magazine. How it used to have class, but now, under Ruth Reichl, it's all about fancy restaurants and hotels and not about the food at all. (This person also complained that the recipes are less seasonal than they used to be.)
I wonder if this person is reading the same magazine I am. Before Reichl took over, Gourmet was the one cooking magazine that was consistently closest to the chopping block for me. It seemed both snobbish and out of touch. The recipes were solid, but a bit stodgy sometimes. And the articles were all dull travelogues about places I would never be visiting.
But the last few years, the magazine has been publishing some really thought-provoking articles about not only how our food tastes and how to prepare it, but where it comes from, how it is produced, and the implications thereof. Articles that make you think instead of daydream, and that don't slide toward easy answers. I'm now actually excited to read the magazine when it arrives.
Or maybe it's just me. Maybe I am brainwashed. I don't think so, though.
I really wonder what other people's perceptions are (and where I could find them). Hm.
I wonder if this person is reading the same magazine I am. Before Reichl took over, Gourmet was the one cooking magazine that was consistently closest to the chopping block for me. It seemed both snobbish and out of touch. The recipes were solid, but a bit stodgy sometimes. And the articles were all dull travelogues about places I would never be visiting.
But the last few years, the magazine has been publishing some really thought-provoking articles about not only how our food tastes and how to prepare it, but where it comes from, how it is produced, and the implications thereof. Articles that make you think instead of daydream, and that don't slide toward easy answers. I'm now actually excited to read the magazine when it arrives.
Or maybe it's just me. Maybe I am brainwashed. I don't think so, though.
I really wonder what other people's perceptions are (and where I could find them). Hm.
