food section of the paper poll time

[matt]

How many of you are happy with your city or towns food section of your city's paper? Since I live in Miami it could be a lot nicer, but what can you do? It got me into thinking how many of you like your papers food section at all.

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[AndreaU]

For a fairly small market area, we have an o.k. food section in our local paper every Wednesday. I especially enjoy it in the summer as they highlight a lot of fresh, local produce in salads and various light (in taste and calories) summer fare. It's no New York Times, though I do pick that up from time to time, but it works. I don't rely heavily on it, I prefer this BB!! :D

[kima]

Our local aper has a food section- also on Wednesday. In fact every paper I have ever read has their food section on that day. Anyone know why that is?
Ours is okay. I enjoy the fact that the stories are usually of a local nature. I found out about some great restaurants and markets from it. I aalso like the fact that the grocery stores all put their big ads in that section so I can see who has the best deals. Of course nothing beats my food magazines- better pictures that's for sure!!

[Little Bit]

We've decided to boycott the local paper, since they make such a habit of calling us to ask if we want to subscribe. (Dad actually got his lawyer involved, and now they don't call as often. :rolleyes: )

I did love the News and Observer's food section when I lived in Raleigh, NC.

[Vanessa]

The Washington Post has a great food section. I prefer that paper than the Baltimore Sun. I am quite happy with the POst's food articles and have learned a lot from them

[BlueMoose]

Another boycotter of the local paper...The Fargo Forum. Because it's a rag and because of their political bias. My DH says its good for one thing...lining a bird cage.

[Kristine]

We get the LA Times and I always read the Food Section on Wednesdays. I don't snip out the recipes too often, but they do usually have a nice variety of things (Dinner Tonight, Lite, Easy, and of course the featured articles). I don't really know how it compares to other paper's Food Sections, but I'm generally pretty pleased with it.

[MaryH]

Used to be that food sections came out on Thursdays. About 5 years ago it switched to Wednesdays. Don't know why but I think it had something to do with cirulation and trying to boost mid-week sales. Although I am in Central Ca, the local paper's food section is not good (and fairly often runs old articles from other papers). The LA Times is consistently pretyy good as is the SF Chronicle.

[Mamasue]

Here is a listing of all the newspapers food sections

http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/4079/Q-A/newspaper.htm

[crc77]

I read the Washington Post and I am very pleased with their food section. In fact they highlighted a cooking light recipe this past Wed!!!!
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[daner94]

I like our Atlanta Journal Constitution's Food Section. There's a column on what's good at farmer's markets, some great recipes, and restaurant reviews and such.

I look at it online (of course!) but I know there are a ton of coupons on Thursday too.

[emilycat]

Dana, I agree -- I really enjoy our food section.
I actually don't get the Journal-Consititution; why pay for the whole dang paper when I'm only going to read one little section on Thursdays? ;)
But my parents get it, and my sister saves the Food Sections for me . Each season (every other season?), John Kessler does a whole piece on reviews of loads of Atlanta restaurants. It's a great source of information, so I've kept those.

[Kerri]

I get the Dallas Morning News and the food section is not very impressive. A lot of their articles are directly from Cooking Light, so of course I have all of those recipes. At least the source was named. One time they had readers submit crock pot recipes and there were 3, I think, that were Cooking Light, but they had changed the title of the recipe. If I do try a recipe from the paper, I usually don't like it. I do read it still to find out what is in season and where the farmers markets are!

[Terrytx]

Another dissapointed customer. The Houston Chronicle food section used to be great, but in the last few years it has gone down hill. There just isn't much to it, and like others here on the BB, the biggest article every week is a repeat of Cooking Light. You would think that a town as big and diverse as Houston would have more to write about than it does.

[Beth]

The Houston Chronicle used to have a good food section, but in the couple of years since I'd moved back I noticed everything in it was straight of a wire service. I suspect the former food editor got older, the business got more automated and high tech while people changed the way and amount they cooked. It really fell off. After 34 years at the helm, the long-time food editor retired last fall and John DeMers, a former CL associate food editor was named the food editor this Feb. DeMers actually writes articles and seems to be trying to improve the section. It seems they pull a CL section once or twice a month, but there is less reliance on wire services (which are not bad if used to enhance rather than create the section). I don't think we're back to the where it used to be, but I'm willing to give it a little more time to see what happens.

[Gail]

Thanks, Mamasue, for the new toy!

Another vote here for the LA TImes which ranges from merely good to excellent. The Washington Post, I see, has some good stuff-- thanks to a certain someone who periodically e-mails recipes to me... :)

[Little Bit]

I just thought I'd add a note: www.kitchenlink.com has a section devoted to links to newspaper food pages online, sorted by state.

http://www.kitchenlink.com/newspapers.html

It'll pop up with all sorts of frames and things, but if you like that sort of thing ... .

That kitchenlink site is loaded with frames, which I find annoying, but some of the information is useful. :)

Also note: Canadian, British and other sites are listed at the bottom of the page, just past Wisconsin's listings. :)

[luv2cook]

You would think that a big city like Houston would have a decent food day - NOT. IMHO. it used to be good, me thinks

[Jessica]

I am a newspaper junkie (I'm a journalist by trade). Both the Minneapolis and St. Paul papers have food sections and I enjoy reading them to get the local scoop on restaurants, but I wish they were longer. When I lived in Chicago, the Trib ran a lengthier section, but then, it's a bigger city and a bigger paper.

I have found some excellent recipes in past food sections, but sometimes the dishes are much too high in fat for regular (or even occasional) eating.

[JennieL]

When I lived in SF, I would buy both the Chronicle and the Examiner on Wed. Their food sections were great. I still find recipies from thier web site.

Now I read the LA Times. The food section is okay. The local Orange County paper is not very good.

[burleydee]

Matt, the Fort Lauderdale newspaper (the South Florida Sun-Sentinel) has a really good food section ... when we lived there, I much preferred it to the Miami Herald's. It comes out on Thursdays. It's worth a look if you can get your hands on a copy. Now I live outside Chicago, and I'm sorely disappointed in the Tribune's food section. In nine months I think I've clipped two recipes. Thank goodness for CL and Bon Appetit!

[Mike B]

Living in Tampa, I prefer to read the St. Petersburg Times over the Tampa Tribune, and their Taste section is one of the reasons. They regularly provide recipes from other sources, as well as ongoing stories from other sources. I am including a link to their website, but I'm not certain exactly how close their site matches the actual print

http://www.sptimes.com/Taste.shtml

[ebobbitt]

I think this is an interesting question because I've been curious about the food sections of other newspapers. Here in Little Rock, AR we used to have a nice food section until several months ago. Now the food section is just two pages and it's stuck inside another section. I just can't stand it and now I do not even bother looking for it. I'm really disappointed but I'm hesitant to complain to the paper because the food editor is the mother of one of my friends. I might have to go to a newstand and check out some of the other papers.

[mcraig13]

The Richmond Times-Dispatch has never had a food section to write home about, but recently, in an effort to cut costs, they cut it down to four pages. There is one feature article per week(Wednesday) and then a few columns--none of which are particularly interesting.

I sometimes have the Washington Post on Wednesday--their food section is very good. It's also the day they publish the wedding announcements--worth the price of the newspaper.

[Curleytop]

I get the Los Angeles Times, and the food section sometimes has some interesting recipes. They try to put in a "lower calorie"
recipe in it every week. You know you can usually find the food sections from all the newspapers on the Web!;)

[gabbyh]

burleydee,
I'll be in South Florida on Thursday this week and will make sure I pick up a copy of the Sentinel and check it out...I passed this on to my sister who lives in Delray Beach...Thanks again!