Monday, October 5, 2009
Au Revoir, Gourmet
Posted by Carrington Fox on Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:50 PM
Venerable culinary mag Gourmet is closing, according to reports in The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets. Publisher Condé Nast will aslo discontinue Cookie, Modern Bride and Elegant Bride.
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I can't even believe that! Gourmet is how I learned to cook, since my mom was a terrible cook.
I wonder if it's the competition from Fine Cooking, Saveur, Food & Wine, etc.
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I think the thing that's hard to grasp is that they're keeping Bon Appetit instead of Gourmet.
The Rachel Rayification of the world continues.
I keep hearing people say that they can't believe Bon Appetit is staying while Gourmet is going. The article I read said that BA had a 1.3m subscriber base, while Gourmet had about a 950k base. The people spoke, and were heard.
My point exactly. Gourmet has a more sophisticated approach to food, ingredients, and developments in the food world.
Bon Appetit is more geared to the 30 minute meal crowd.
I get both G and B&A and I swear to god I cannot tell the difference - especially recently. One of them does too many stories about hot new restaurants in the Seychelles or whateverthehellever and that always drives me crazy, but I swear I can't tell them apart. Though I do hate the recent BA design overhaul.
