Comments on: Still Heartbroken http://gogoabigail.com/blog/2009/10/05/heartbroken-gourmet-magazine-closing-2/ Hunting for design inspiration! Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:27:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: nicole http://gogoabigail.com/blog/2009/10/05/heartbroken-gourmet-magazine-closing-2/comment-page-2/#comment-52607 nicole Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:57:42 +0000 http://gogoabigail.com/blog/?p=2730#comment-52607 i'll give you an amen. i’ll give you an amen.

]]> By: mln http://gogoabigail.com/blog/2009/10/05/heartbroken-gourmet-magazine-closing-2/comment-page-2/#comment-52583 mln Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:45:02 +0000 http://gogoabigail.com/blog/?p=2730#comment-52583 Abbey, I heartily agree with you on your comparisons to the other food magazines- they just don't do it for me. Every time I read food & wine I'm disappointed. Gourmet was beautiful, practical, and well, just fit me (& my demographic) to a t. The sad thing is, the enormous sums Conde Nast paid to McK consultants to analyze whether or not the magazine was viable could have been better spent on something else that may actually have kept it running. What a loss. And it's true, archiving is so important, and that you'll never get with an online source. Abbey, I heartily agree with you on your comparisons to the other food magazines- they just don’t do it for me. Every time I read food & wine I’m disappointed. Gourmet was beautiful, practical, and well, just fit me (& my demographic) to a t. The sad thing is, the enormous sums Conde Nast paid to McK consultants to analyze whether or not the magazine was viable could have been better spent on something else that may actually have kept it running. What a loss.
And it’s true, archiving is so important, and that you’ll never get with an online source.

]]> By: joslyn http://gogoabigail.com/blog/2009/10/05/heartbroken-gourmet-magazine-closing-2/comment-page-2/#comment-52076 joslyn Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:00:48 +0000 http://gogoabigail.com/blog/?p=2730#comment-52076 Abbey you so perfectly and beautifully articulated every. single. thing. I've been feeling since this last blow to the print world. when i think about the fact that the magazines I eagerly awaited just a year ago (house and garden, blueprint, domino, gourmet, cookie...) are all gone... well i feel, as you said alone. I can't believe there are so few of us in this demographic. and yes, i want my magazines to be aspirational If I'm going to sit down (taking time away from my family, my other obligations, my other hobbies) to read a publication, I want it to be something beautiful, inspiring and aspirational...not 10 ways to organize your toilet paper cabinet. I'm right there with you sister. Abbey
you so perfectly and beautifully articulated every. single. thing. I’ve been feeling since this last blow to the print world. when i think about the fact that the magazines I eagerly awaited just a year ago (house and garden, blueprint, domino, gourmet, cookie…) are all gone… well i feel, as you said alone. I can’t believe there are so few of us in this demographic.

and yes, i want my magazines to be aspirational If I’m going to sit down (taking time away from my family, my other obligations, my other hobbies) to read a publication, I want it to be something beautiful, inspiring and aspirational…not 10 ways to organize your toilet paper cabinet.

I’m right there with you sister.

]]> By: clf http://gogoabigail.com/blog/2009/10/05/heartbroken-gourmet-magazine-closing-2/comment-page-2/#comment-52008 clf Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:42:45 +0000 http://gogoabigail.com/blog/?p=2730#comment-52008 . Abbey- If you love to cook, I urge you to reconsider and support Bon Appetit. (Btw folks, if you really want to support a magazine you love, and want to make sure it keeps publishing, buy it at the newsstand.)The recipes are excellent and thoroughly tested. You have no idea how much hard work and love goes into developing them (full disclosure: one of my friends is a longtime, frequent contributor). I realize the magazine is not as brainy or elite as Gourmet, not as anal as Cooks Illustrated (good CI gets on my nerves sometimes) and not as sexy as Food & Wine. But it offers solid recipes and information and the art direction has changed in the last year or so. So it's getting hipper. Conde Nast just laid off 7 staffers at Bon Appetit today. (Meanwhile, has Anna Wintour taken a pay cut?) There are real human beings behind these magazines, people. Anytime a magazine is shut down, not only does the staff lose their jobs, but hundreds of peripheral people do also, from photographers and writers to food stylists, fact checkers and researchers, and the folks who do color separation at the printer, etc. etc. This sort of thing is devastating to tons of people. .

Abbey-
If you love to cook, I urge you to reconsider and support Bon Appetit. (Btw folks, if you really want to support a magazine you love, and want to make sure it keeps publishing, buy it at the newsstand.)The recipes are excellent and thoroughly tested. You have no idea how much hard work and love goes into developing them (full disclosure: one of my friends is a longtime, frequent contributor).

I realize the magazine is not as brainy or elite as Gourmet, not as anal as Cooks Illustrated (good CI gets on my nerves sometimes) and not as sexy as Food & Wine. But it offers solid recipes and information and the art direction has changed in the last year or so. So it’s getting hipper.

Conde Nast just laid off 7 staffers at Bon Appetit today. (Meanwhile, has Anna Wintour taken a pay cut?) There are real human beings behind these magazines, people. Anytime a magazine is shut down, not only does the staff lose their jobs, but hundreds of peripheral people do also, from photographers and writers to food stylists, fact checkers and researchers, and the folks who do color separation at the printer, etc. etc. This sort of thing is devastating to tons of people.

]]> By: Ruth Gyuse http://gogoabigail.com/blog/2009/10/05/heartbroken-gourmet-magazine-closing-2/comment-page-2/#comment-51854 Ruth Gyuse Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:33:34 +0000 http://gogoabigail.com/blog/?p=2730#comment-51854 Thank you so much for this post and for your comments about the internet and blogging. I am exactly as you are: still heartbroken. I've been a Gourmet subscriber for 7 years and I haven't had the courage to unwrap my October 2009 issue of Gourmet because I know that I will get depressed knowing that it is my second to last issue. Is there something we can do? Rise up and write letters to Conde Nast? Obviously they don't care. The idea of Bon Apetit with all its pedestrian recipes and silly articles about overcoming the fear of eating kale (puh lease)... the idea of it showing up in place of Gourmet in my mailbox makes my blood absolutely boil. I just wish there was something we could do, I feel helpless and to echo what everyone has said, alienated by the "bottom line" attitude of our society that places profits over quality or for that matter, posterity... Thank you so much for this post and for your comments about the internet and blogging. I am exactly as you are: still heartbroken. I’ve been a Gourmet subscriber for 7 years and I haven’t had the courage to unwrap my October 2009 issue of Gourmet because I know that I will get depressed knowing that it is my second to last issue. Is there something we can do? Rise up and write letters to Conde Nast? Obviously they don’t care. The idea of Bon Apetit with all its pedestrian recipes and silly articles about overcoming the fear of eating kale (puh lease)… the idea of it showing up in place of Gourmet in my mailbox makes my blood absolutely boil. I just wish there was something we could do, I feel helpless and to echo what everyone has said, alienated by the “bottom line” attitude of our society that places profits over quality or for that matter, posterity…

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