Great Magazine Trip

[MISSINDI]

Ok, $61 later ... I subscribe to a ton of magazines, but there's a few imports I pick up monthly... and then there seem to be a few new magazines out too, that I, gasp, don't subscribe to yet. In case you're a magazine addict like me, run, don't walk to your nearest Borders or Barnes & Noble. Here's tonight's haul ... so much on catching up on my reading before we sell the house. ;)

Food Illustrated, December 2004, Nigella Lawson on cover. Headlines: Collector's Issue. Nigella's Party - The Ultimate Christmas Menu from Our Greatest Cooks

delicious. Issue 11. This is an Autralian cooking magazine, actually voted best magazine last year. Really nice magazine with great pictures, similiar to Donna Hay's in terms of photography. Headlines: Quick Smart Food, 70 Easy Recipes, Fast Weeknight Dinners, Indulgent Berry Desserts, Kids' Mexican Party, Nigella Lawson's Stress-Free Entertaining, Stefano de Pieri's Italian Home Cooking, and Jamie Oliver's Exclusive Book Extract.

La Cucina Italiana. December 2004 Holiday Issue. Not a new magazine or an import, just haven't gotten around to subscribing yet. Headlines: Memorable Meals: festive antipasti, lavish entrees and more, Stuffed Pasta - 8 Regional Classics, Desserts!, Italy's Best Bubblies.

Eating Light. One of those Woman's Day Special magazines. Headlines: 64 Luscious Lowfat Recipes, Clever Cooking with 3 Ingredients, Easy 30-Minute Meals, Keep the Flavor - Cut the Calories, 8 No-Guilt Desserts, 9 One-Dish Dinners, Love-Your-Heart Dishes

Australian Vogue Entertaining and Travel, October/November 2004 issue. Never bought this one before but the cover drew me in. COver recipe is Safrron, Ginger and Chilli Prawn Lasagnette and other features include Food of the Sun, from Morocco to Turkey; Italian Spirit: The Art of the Aperitif

New issue of Donna Hay's magazine, Spring Issue 17. I love, love, love her magazine. Gorgeous, simply gorgeous. Headlines: 100 Fresh and Easy New Recipes to Make Now; Eggs, Stir-Fries, Honey and more; Upside Down Desserts; The Dinner Party Demystified

Cooking Smart. Brand new magazine. Headlines: Meals for a Month (31 days of menu ideas); Red Hot Texas Chili; Make Your Favorite Recipes Fit Your Diet; 70 Healthy Recipes; How To: Burgers; Decadent Brownies (Valchemist!); Entertaining for 8; Spice School; Cooking for One

New issue of BBC's Good Food magazine, another one of my favorites. January 2005. Headlines: Entertaining Made Easy; Everyday Meals; Cookschools - There's One to Suit You; Best Sausage and Mash; Celebrate the Season; Asian Lime Chicken; Easy Freeze-Ahead Meals; Fruity Sorbet Meringue (cover picture)

[gabbyh]

Missindi,

Whenever we go to Australia, I always come home with a suitcase full of Aussie cooking magazines, we always get very close to the weight limit ;-}

Delicious is one of my favorites, and I was surprised when I saw it at B & N (after I went there hunting for all the holiday mags you posted:D )

I also have all the Donna Hay mags since she began publishing it...my Aussie MIL buys me a subscription every year for my B'day...her mag is the BEST!

One I have never seen over here but it is another good one is Australian Woman's Weekly...they have a great web-site also.

Guess I need to go buy Delicious:D

You're killin' me Missindi :D :D :D

But what a way to go...

~Gail

[Aubergine]

i just happened to be at Borders yesterday evening and saw the mags you're talking about. i loved delicious, but there's no way i'm spending $9 for a magazine! ditto Donna Hay. i thought Cooking Smart was very poorly produced - bad photography, cheap paper stock - so i passed on that. the WD Eating Light i can pick up locally, after i have a chance to thumb through it and see whether it's worth the price. the others didn't interst me enough to pick up. anyway, i picked up Eating Well (with the 2-for-1 subscription offer this month), Real Simple, and the french mags i went in to buy in the first place.

[MISSINDI]

Geez, Aubergine, so negative ... :)

First, if you have a thing about not spending more than x amount for a magazine, why not subscribe to Real Simple instead of buying it each month? It's $4.50 on the newstands, but if you subscribe through one of the online services, you can get it for $16.95/year (12 issues), which is less than the cost of picking up 4 issues at the store ... like getting 8 free (saving over $32!).

As far as the cost of Donna Hay, BBC Good Food and delicious. - yep, they're a bit pricier but can't compare to their US counterparts in terms of photography, visuals and with Donna Hay's in particular, quantity of pages. The new issue has nearly 250 pages, and no, not full of ads. Yeah, they're a bit of a splurge, but hey, if that's my biggest areas of splurges (and it usually is), then I'm doing ok.

As far as Cooking Smart goes ... it's a brand new magazine. I thumbed through it at the store, and enough caught my eye to give it a chance. Yeah, the paper stock is a bit different, but to completely dismiss it without reading it first ... ?

GabbyH -- you mean there are OTHER cooking magazines in Australia besides Donna Hay and delicious.? Can you pass on the titles? I'd love to check them out. Thanks much!

[Gecko]

Originally posted by MISSINDI
GabbyH -- you mean there are OTHER cooking magazines in Australia besides Donna Hay and delicious.? Can you pass on the titles? I'd love to check them out. Thanks much!

Not Gail but a couple of the other good magazines in Australia are Australian Good Taste and Australian Table. Unfortunately I have not seen these for sale here in the US as yet. I love the other ones that have been mentioned too. Pity that the subscriptions are so expensive. I looked into it and it actually works out about the same if you just buy it off the shelf here. My inlaws will be visiting soon and I have already asked them to start collecting each month's issues for me. My idea of heaven.

[Jazzmatazz49]

I always buy a local cookbook as a souvenir of a my trip. I never once thought about cooking magazines. Thanks for the idea!

[MISSINDI]

Jazzmatazz - I do that, too. I love delving into a local area's history of recipes, and cooking, and finding the regional differences.

Gecko -- thanks for the information and the titles. But it's like a tease! ;) I figured I could find them here SOMEWHERE, but now it looks like I have to find a friend in Australia to send them to me. :D I used to subscribe to Donna Hay and BBC as well, and like you, realized it's either the same or just a bit cheaper to pick it up at the store. At B&N, if you sign up for their readers club, you can get 10% off magazines too!

[angelamaria]

ahh bn. when i first had abby and just had to escape my dh would watch her and i would run over to bn and browse.. and buy!

missindi are the measurements in donna hay's mags etc metric or by weight or are they american? i am tempted by the donna hay spring issue but i am too lazy to do a lot of converting etc

[MISSINDI]

AngelaMaria - I can relate. Some of my favorite nights are when I can escape and spend an hour or two at the bookstore.

Don't have the magazine here, but I believe it's metric. In any event, there is a handy, extensive conversion chart in the back of every one of her magazines. Hope this helps!