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Monday, July 14, 2008
Are cookbooks a thing of the past?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It seems that every time I go to my mailbox or bookstore there’s a new cooking magazine or one with expanded recipe content. It used to be just the two biggies, Gourmet and Bon Appetit. Then Martha came along with photos to die for. Real Simple followed with an incredible visual presence and enticing recipes. Now there’s a magazine from Paula and Rachel as well as well as so many others. I’m forever clipping and folding down pages at the expense of even cracking the binding of the scores of cookbooks that dot my shelves.
I began to wonder if magazine recipe use is eclipsing that of cookbooks. With many cookbooks costing $30 to $50 a pop, a $4 magazine looks pretty darn attractive these days. Then I realized the Internet has even more recipes than one could ever use and it’s free!
Are you finding yourself cooking more from magazines, Internet and newspaper recipes, or, are cookbooks still your resource of choice?
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