Cooking Mag Mommy

Before I began cooking tonight's dinner, a friend of mine sent me a link to a news article from this morning that said that Conde Nast , the parent company of Gourmet , has announced the closing of Gourmet magazine. November will be the last issue of Gourmet published. This ends almost 60 years of an outstanding magazine that pushed the barriers of both food and culture. I, for one, will miss it, though not nearly as much as those to whom this magazine was their livelihood. My heart goes out to Ruth Reichl and her outstanding staff who put together a quality publication month after month. My dearest wish is that each person affected by this loss will soon find their rightful place back in the world of food publishing and media. Each article I read stated the profound effect of the weak economy on publishing in general and that Gourmet and the 3 other magazines that were cancelled with it were an unfortunate casualty of the current climate. I will take a few lines to put in my...

Each month I take a perfectly good Gourmet magazine and make it look like a used dish towel. I've seen those pretty plastic stands that can protect the pages of your cookbook or magazine as you whirl like a dervish around the kitchen but they are not for me. I almost pride myself in how unbelievably messy I can make a book look after just one dinner in my kitchen. Even my cookbooks have warped pages and odd unidentifiable stains. It's the sign of a dedicated cook... or a really messy one. I'll call myself the latter. Tonight I made only one recipe from my new October Gourmet and tonight when I came upstairs to post to the blog, I had to carefully pull the pages apart so as not to rip the other recipes on the page I haven't made yet. I made the Portobello Buffalo Burgers with Celery Apple Slaw on page 128. They were not the prettiest burgers I've ever made but I got to reuse the homemade ketchup, mustard, relish, and buns I'd made earlier in the week. Portobell...