Gourmet News Archives

This week's wine dinners include offerings from Bailey's Prime Plus, Tavern on the Green, Ferrari's Flight, Adelmo's, Nana, two from Stephan Pyles, and Pappas Bros Steakhouse.

The reason Lucy Matz has two refrigerators and a full-sized freezer stocked with food is fairly simple.

Dreaming of a gourmet week-end in France, if your schedule is flexible you might still be able to make it to the Journees Gourmandes in Vaison La Romaine.

THE closing of Gourmet early this month continues to have ripple effects. Johansen Krause for WGBH In a "Gourmet's Adventures With Ruth" episode, the former editor of Gourmet magazine, Ruth Reichl, visits Blackberry Farm in Tennessee.

Gourmet 's final issue has now hit newsstands and mailboxes. In a recent roundup that compared the last issue to its competitors, the Post pointed out that "browsing through the first half of Bon Appetit makes one realize how desperate the food publishing industry is.

Located in a renovated warehouse in the Christianshavn area of Copenhagen, Denmark, the restaurant Noma, is a food lovers gem.

Today's food programmes seem more focused on the chefs than the food. Has entertainment displaced education? All those Kiwis bemoaning the antics and airtime afforded to Gordon Ramsay and his competitors should remember that we only have ourselves to blame.

This two-bedroom home on Ramona Ave is listed at $619,000. It's Oakland's quiet culinary corridor.

Here's a wonderful recipe for Lobster Macaroni and Cheese from the folks at The Gourmet Foodie Blog .

A cupcake may not a meal make, but you wouldn't know it to observe the breathless proliferation of purveyors that has happened in virtually every major North American city during the past few years.

Late in the first episode of "Gourmet's Adventures With Ruth," the host, Ruth Reichl , offers her recipe for managing an enterprise.

Meridith Ford Goldman; Staff -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution , October 16, 2009 Friday Main Edition A fellow dining critic and I were discussing the phenomenon of the burger, and he asked me why --- in Atlanta, particularly --- I thought this meager mound of meat had made its way into the gourmet status it now enjoys.

Conde Nast Publications shocked the foodie world with the recent announcement that Gourmet Magazine will be folding.

Some culinary stars are gathering to mourn the death of an old friend, Gourmet magazine.

You may have heard that Gourmet magazine will stop publication after the November issue.

I must be the only 'foodie' who didn't love 'Julie & Julia,' the movie about Julia Child and the office worker she inspired, Julie Powell.

We'd like to end the week on a high note, but on this gloomy, cold October Friday in New York City, this story from The New York Observer about the last hurrah for Gourmet magazine seems fitting.

Gourmet may be dead and buried, but last night's party at A Voce Columbus for Ruth Reichl's Adventures With Ruth didn't feel like much of a wake -- as guests knocked back wine and uni crostini, the deceased was barely mentioned.

OK. Full disclosure here. I was a little jealous. There, on stage in Palo Alto late last month, was Gourmet editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl, promoting her new cookbook and regaling the Commonwealth Club audience with tales of dressing in disguise as a food critic and traveling to exotic cooking schools with celebrity buddies for a soon-to-debut ...

Well, the excruciating demise of Gourmet continues with the arrival of the final issue.

There was Gourmet's decadently rich, dark chocolate cheesecake with pecans. When I made it, a friend flopped down on the couch and said that he was overdosing on chocolate.

Good magazines possess a distinct character, even within niche markets. Subscribing to them is like being a member of a club joined by shared desire.

New food products come to market at an alarming rate- to the tune of thousands of new food-related products on our shelves every year .

After 68 years reporting on fine cuisine, Gourmet magazine was one of four magazines shut down by CondA© Nast.

Guest post by Tom Philpott From Grist.org. Hard times aren't always the worst times for magazines.

Like many of the people who have opined about the demise of Gourmet, I grew up surrounded by the magazine: I ate up what was on its pages, literally.

The new series Gourmet's Adventures with Ruth from WGBH will premiere this month despite the demise of its namesake publication, Gourmet magazine, where host Ruth Reichl was editor-in-chief. Production is going ahead for a second season of Adventures with Ruth , as well as the fourth season of another WGBH project with the same magazine, Gourmet's ...

The precursor to Gourmet, and the first truly successful American food publication, was founded in the 1890s and called The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics.

In another sign of the times, Gourmet magazine is hanging up the spatula. I can't say it's a shock because we weren't that close, but I'm sorry to see another great publication bite the dust - and after almost 70 years.

Ruth Reichl called today, sounding tired and reflective and sad. On Monday, her bosses at CondA© Nast told her they were shutting down Gourmet, the magazine she captained for the last ten years.

With the closure of Gourmet magazine, the food media market is about to become much more segmented, says Saveur publisher Merri Lee Kingsly.

Cond Nast announced earlier today, Gourmet was by far the biggest shocker. Of Cond Nast's two food titles, Gourmet had been aggressive in extending its brand in recent years, with its Gourmet Institute cooking school, cookbooks and its popular Diary of a Foodie TV show on PBS.

Posted on October 5th, 2009 10:41am by Sarah Eveans Filed under Foodie People , Rants Read all about it here .

Here it is, people: further sobering evidence of The Decline of Print Media. The latest publications to give up their inky ghosts include a longtime fixture in the foodie world, Gourmet, as well as two bridal and one parenting magazine, all under the umbrella of publishing giant Conde Nast.

The Eater Wrap returns after a week off to bring you all the best and brightest local restaurant news of the last seven days or so at Eater SF .

Maybe I'm just a bad friend , but I just don't get all the hand-wringing over the demise of Gourmet magazine.

Ruth Reichl called today, sounding tired and reflective and sad. On Monday, her bosses at CondA© Nast told her they were shutting down Gourmet, the magazine she captained for the last ten years.

Post- Gourmet , Ruth Reichl says she plans to write a book about her time at Conde Nast.

Jacques Ppin worked his tail off with New York magazine's wealthy epicureans while Bon Apptit served lunch by Emeril to the masses.

In a grab-n-go cooler at City Market, you can find spinach borek made by a Turkish woman, and pakoras prepared by a man who moved here from Nepal.

Don't tell former Gourmet editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl this week's closing of the venerable food magazine reflects any sort of judgment on the food elite.

The U.S. Supreme Court has asked for President Obama's input on the Golden Gate Restaurant Association's challenge to San Francisco's health care mandate.

For 68 years, Gourmet magazine upheld at least one end of the foodie vision. For decades, its vision virtually defined sophisticated cuisine for Americans.

Shock news this week from America as Conde Nast closes down Gourmet magazine, the 68 year old food magazine edited by Ruth Reichl.

Say it ain't so. Having fully embraced the Internet-sometimes to much disdain from old media colleagues back in the day-since the early 1990s as the way of the future in publishing, and even going to far as to abandon a career in print forever some years ago, BoomTown is bereft at the news yesterday that Gourmet magazine was being shish-kababbed .

Since news hit of Gourmet 's untimely demise, there's been plenty of sniping to go along with the mourning -- though the magazine's gone, charges of foodie elitism continue to fester, and will undoubtedly do so for a long while.

Yesterday I was fortunate enough to attend a lunchtime cooking demonstration by acclaimed Thai food expert David Thompson .

Our foodies weigh in The death of Gourmet While restaurant critic Chris Johns laments the loss of a bible of fine dining, Alexandra Gill says the magazine was out of touch with how we eat Chris Johns and Alexandra Gill From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Tuesday, Oct.

The forces assembled against print media scored a big scalp on Monday when Cond Nast announced that Gourmet magazine was finished.

A FREE guide celebrating Truro's glorious gastro scene has been launched by the city's Business Improvement District.

On Monday, CondA© Nast announced the closing of its long-running culinary magazine Gourmet .

Gourmet closure: does this sound the death knell for special interest magazines? - - As a freelance journalist trying to carve a niche out for myself in food writing, the news has been rather hard to swallow.

By J.M. HIRSCH AP Food Editor Updated: October 05, 2009, 3:54 PM / After nearly 70 years of fine eating, the lavish meal known as Gourmet magazine is over.

Michaelmas, at the end of September, used to be a significant festival a 'seen as the end of one farming year and the start of another, apart from its religious meaning.

"Chicago Gourmet is much more than an all-you-can eat gourmet food fest." When Sheila O'Grady became the new head of the Illinois Restaurant Association in 2007, better days for Chicago's already thriving restaurant scene were inevitable.

If you're still using plain old vanilla marshmallows at your campfire or in your cocoa, you're out of touch.

Taste of Conway will be 5 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Conway Sports Center in the Don Owen Recreation Complex.

Greg Morris, owner of The Belmont , The Spanish Kitchen , and Oak Fire Pizzeria , goes a little heavier on the oak today, opening a new store and cafe called The Oaks Gourmet Market in Hollywood, on Bronson at Franklin.

Ruth Reichl is Gourmet Magazine's editorinchief. She began her foodwriting career in 1972, when she released her first cookbook, "Mmmmm: A Feastiary." Since then, she's released multiple memoires and cookbooks.