Uncluttered cooking magazine
My wife loves to cook and is quite talented at it, too (lucky me). She has gone through a fair amount of cooking magazine subscriptions to finally settle on the one she is currently enjoying. Cuisine at Home is a very straight-to-the-point magazine that has zero ads and tons of tips and recipes. I’ve always found it ridiculous as to how many ads are in magazines. Before you get to the first pages of content you usually have to flip through fifteen to twenty pages of advertisements.
This magazine is very thorough when it comes to step-by-step instructions. Every recipe includes clear photos, helpful tips, and extensive supplemental material on their website. Cuisine at Home also comes already three-hole punched so you can easily place each issue, if you’re so inclined, into a three ring binder.
My wife has subscribed to this publication for the past three years and truly enjoys it. She also appreciates their product reviews, which she knows aren’t based on which company has purchased the most ad space since it is free of advertisements.
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16 comments posted
Posted by Catherine - 08/05/2008
My husband and I discovered this magazine recently and we love it. The recipes are easy to make, have great instructions and are amazing. We especially love their books - our favorite, not having children, is “Cuisine for Two”.
Posted by Fit Bottomed Girls - 08/05/2008
I’ve never heard of this one, but I’m LOVING that it’s already binder-ready. Does it have healthy recipes? Do they include nuritional information? If they do those two things, then it may be L-O-V-E.
Posted by Marianne - 08/05/2008
No ads is the same reason Cooks Illustrated is an awesome magazine. They’re like Consumer Reports for cooks!
Posted by STL Mom - 08/05/2008
Hey, I’m trying to cut back on cooking magazines, and magazines in general - why tempt me with a new one?
I have an online subscription to Cooks Illustrated, and tons of recipes are available at Epicurious.com, Cookinglight.com, and Allrecipes.com. When I find a great recipe, I print it out, put it in a page protector, and put it in a binder that has only the recipes that worked for me.
Posted by Stephanie Leary - 08/05/2008
STL Mom, I do the page-protector thing, too. Did you know that myrecipes.com has all the stuff from Cooking Light and about a dozen other magazines? You can sign in with an AOL screen name (AIM works!) even if you don’t subscribe to any of them.
Posted by laure - 08/05/2008
My grandmother loved this magazine and bought me a subscription for the last 10 years. She passed away 2 years ago and I still get the subscription (she renewed it that many times). It’s a nice reminder of her and our relationship. I know whenever I cook anything from it that we’re spending time together.
Posted by Michael G - 08/05/2008
Wow. It looks like the this magazine is getting nothing but rave reviews. I’ll have to take a look. No ads is always a plus.
Posted by supersocco - 08/05/2008
Best online cookbook ever http://www.cooksillustrated.com/Default.asp
Posted by Mark Wilden - 08/05/2008
Personally, I get magazines primarily for the ads. If all I need is a recipe or instruction, I’ve got a jillion cookbooks and a kajillion website bookmarks.
But especially when I’m first getting started in a new hobby or interest, I find that the ads give me a quick handle on what people are selling (and what people are buying).
The last thing I need is more recipes!
Different strokes…
///ark
Posted by JW - 08/05/2008
STLMom, I use the internet mostly, too. I have about half a dozen vegetarian cookbooks, and when I find something new onine, I’ve stopped printing out recipes altogether, and instead, I save them as word documents or PDFs–depending on where I found them–and save them to my laptop. The latter comes into the kitchen (safely away from drips and pointy things) when I need it, and I have no extra clutter, no waste. Extra bonus: if you tinker like I do, you can easily add in notes, substitutions, or special notes right where you need them, and if a recipe isn’t good? Just delete the file.
Posted by Rob in Madrid - 08/05/2008
very very suprisingly they send the free sample issue any where in the world, very unusual. I ordered the freebie I’m always interested in new cooking ideas, love cooking but pretty much a novice.
Posted by Sean - 08/05/2008
@Fit Bottomed Girls
Yes, Cuisine at Home has the nutritional information on the same page as the recipe. Some of the recipes are definitely NOT healthy, but most are actually pretty good and have vegetable sides. I’ve been subscribing to this magazine for two years and I love it.
Posted by lucille - 08/05/2008
I have a system for recipes that I find. I bookmark the recipe first time I try it. If it turns out well and I start making it all the time I save it as a notepad file so I have it even if the website goes away. I have older online recipes in binders (from the days before cheaper laptops and wifi). As far as magazines if they are not geared towards types of food your interested in they won’t get much use. I had a gift subscription to a magazine that was heavily into church pot luck type fare and things made with canned soup. I don’t think I made anything out of 12 issues.
Posted by Shelley - 08/06/2008
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see how subscribing to a magazine relates to UN-cluttering. With all the websites one can get and excellent basic cookbooks - one or two of which will more than suffice - I’m afraid this just looks like an advertisement for a magazine.
Posted by Megan - 08/06/2008
I must agree with Shelley… but I think we all know that I’m a bit biased when it comes to a recipe organization solution. I won’t bore you again.
Posted by star - 08/14/2008
another really great magazine with zero ads is cooks country. and the photography is GORGEOUS as well. plus, it’s nice and thin, so a whole year’s subscription takes up little space. it is a little taller and wider than a standard magazine.
also, for any mac users, a great software that i use to keep my recipes organized, is macgourmet. i read so many cooking blogs that have lots of great recipes to try. and all you have to do is highlight the text and drag it into the software. sweeeet. i do periodically go through my cooking magazines and purge. i will sit and enter the recipes i want to keep into the software. it does take a bit of time, but at least i have them on hand without throwing away. well, except for cooks country. it’s too purty!
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