bludroptop
bludroptop Dork
10/5/09 2:06 p.m.

Gourmet Magazine folds it's tent after 68 years.

Adios Gourmet

Marjorie Suddard
Marjorie Suddard General Manager
10/5/09 2:25 p.m.
bludroptop wrote: Gourmet Magazine folds it's tent after 68 years. Adios Gourmet

Just saw that. Conde Nast is also shuttering Modern Bride, another giant in its category.

Makes me feel a little bit like the baby sheep that just saw the coyotes eat the neighboring flock's senior members.

Margie

slantvaliant
slantvaliant HalfDork
10/5/09 2:43 p.m.

Maybe GRM could add a grassroots cooking column to pick up some of the displaced readers ...

Ok, maybe not.

Jay
Jay Dork
10/5/09 3:00 p.m.

...only if the recipes involved grilling things on a hot valve cover.

David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
10/5/09 3:09 p.m.
slantvaliant wrote: Maybe GRM could add a grassroots cooking column to pick up some of the displaced readers ... Ok, maybe not.

Funny you should mention that.

DILYSI Dave
DILYSI Dave SuperDork
10/5/09 3:40 p.m.
Marjorie Suddard wrote:
bludroptop wrote: Gourmet Magazine folds it's tent after 68 years. Adios Gourmet
Just saw that. Conde Nast is also shuttering Modern Bride, another giant in its category. Makes me feel a little bit like the baby sheep that just saw the coyotes eat the neighboring flock's senior members. Margie

Except that you're not a baby sheep. Your a berkeleying mongoose, ready to tear the E36 M3 out of any coyote that makes the mistake of berkeleying with you.

Tom Heath
Tom Heath Marketing / Club Coordinator
10/5/09 3:45 p.m.

I <3 Dave.

Marjorie Suddard
Marjorie Suddard General Manager
10/5/09 3:52 p.m.
DILYSI Dave wrote: Except that you're not a baby sheep. Your a berkeleying mongoose, ready to tear the E36 M3 out of any coyote that makes the mistake of berkeleying with you.

With pep-talk skills like that, I believe you could even make me stop being afraid of spiders.

Okay, that's stretching it. But I feel ready to go kick some butt now!

Margie

Entropyman
Entropyman GRM+ Memberand New Reader
10/5/09 3:55 p.m.

I have to say that everytime I read Gourmet I had trouble relating to it. It just seemed like they went out of their way to feature the most obscure food and wines. Stuff that the eveyday folks, even those with exotic tastes, would have a hard time finding. Maybe a more "Grassroots" approach would have helped. Now Modern Bride.......

Duke
Duke SuperDork
10/5/09 4:00 p.m.
Marjorie Suddard wrote: Just saw that. Conde Nast is also shuttering Modern Bride, another giant in its category.

Does Modern Bride contain ANYTHING except advertising and the same 12 articles recycled endlessly with occasional minor updates? I mean seriously, how could that magazine have been anything but made of profit?

That's like saying Cathy Gusethwaite is going to stop drawing the Cathy comic strip because her overhead is too high.

nutherjrfan
nutherjrfan Reader
10/5/09 6:16 p.m.
Entropyman wrote: I have to say that everytime I read Gourmet I had trouble relating to it. It just seemed like they went out of their way to feature the most obscure food and wines. Stuff that the eveyday folks, even those with exotic tastes, would have a hard time finding. Maybe a more "Grassroots" approach would have helped. Now Modern Bride.......

Try Saveur magazine. I'm new to it and definitely not a foodie, real easy to read and enjoy.

speedblind
speedblind Reader
10/5/09 6:23 p.m.

I don't know many people that subscribe to those bridal magazines. When I got engaged, my fiance was immediately inundated with paper bags full of those phonebook-sized glossy ad books. Very little actual information, just pictures and pictures. The funny thing is they're still stashed in paper bags under the bed...I call it her bridal porn.

ignorant
ignorant SuperDork
10/5/09 6:26 p.m.

My sister worked for Blueprint, which is also no more.

andrave
andrave HalfDork
10/5/09 7:28 p.m.

dont mongooses eat snakes?

I think a mongoose versus a coyote would be a good fight.

914Driver
914Driver SuperDork
10/6/09 6:06 a.m.

Gourmet magazine recipes always had ONE ingredient that was hard to come by; doesn't matter how basic the dish.

Have you seen The Incredibles? Margie's no mongoose, more a Jack-Jack. Hanging out going through life, things are laid back....

til you mess with the Mom!

TJ
TJ HalfDork
10/6/09 6:55 a.m.
andrave wrote: dont mongooses eat snakes? I think a mongoose versus a coyote would be a good fight.

In this case we are talking about a real mongoose and an imaginary coyote so it won't be a fair fight, I mean there is no way imaginary coyotes can be tougher than a king cobra. Go Margie-Tikki-Tavi!

Lesley
Lesley SuperDork
10/6/09 9:01 a.m.

Grassroots food I could handle. but puhleeeeeze... no bridal content - that stuff makes me hurl!

aussiesmg
aussiesmg SuperDork
10/6/09 9:05 a.m.
DILYSI Dave wrote: Except that you're not a baby sheep. Your a berkeleying mongoose, ready to tear the E36 M3 out of any coyote that makes the mistake of berkeleying with you.

I had the same thought but with a Wolverine instead. I haven't been subject to her displeasure yet but I expect the metal "claws" are there also

EricM
EricM HalfDork
10/6/09 9:07 a.m.

I once saw a Badger and a cyote fight. there was no clear winner.

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