Gourmet magazine to fold

If you've been wondering which magazine Conde Nast would save, Bon Appetit or Gourmet, you have your answer today. Gourmet got the ax, along with Cookie, Elegant Bride and Modern Bride. I blogged way back in January that falling advertising dollars were threatening the magzine but it's still hard to believe that America's oldest food magazine is dead. No word one when the last issue is; the first one was January 1941.

It will be interesting to see where editor Ruth Reichl, a best-selling author in her own right and a powerful person in the food world, will land. Some say that the magazine got elitist under her direction. I went to the Gourmet Magazine Institute a few years ago and heard lots of complaints from long-time readers. Still, I think the magazine would have survived it the economics were better.

Over the years the magazine has included some great writing and writers - M.F.K. Fisher, Calvin Trillin and David Foster Wallace. Plus, it really revolutionized food photography. Those of us working in the field owe a lot to Gourmet.

 

 

Comments

[Rich]

I used to subscribe many years ago but it got too elitist with ingredients that would have to be ordered off the internet and very intricate cooking procedures. Good food doesn't need all that and I'm not interested in pickled quail eggs.

[Relieved]

Glad I didn't renew my subscription!

[Tami]

Hrm wonder if I will get my money back on the sub I just paid for....

[cheap]

honestly heart broken news .....