I must preface this post with a confession: I collect paper. I have to limit the number of books and magazines that come into our home because unless they’re given out as gifts, they don’t leave.
There’s no daily newspaper or monthly assortment of magazines. I check the news online and get emails from various cooking magazines. That way they don’t clog my mailbox, I can print out what I want, and don’t have to take a hundred pounds of trash out.
If I had three cooking magazines I would have on paper and collect right now, they would be, in no particular order: Food and Wine; Cooks (product of PBS America’s Test Kitchen featuring techniques and tastings); and Gourmet.
Right now I get regular updates from F&W online and am a Gourmet “Tastemaker” as a volunteer, of course.
You may have the fortitude to clip what you want and toss the magazine after a few days. I don’t. Friends of mine love Bon Appetit and Southern Living and all kinds of magazines and that’s great because they’re into it. These recommendations are for overall cooking and techniques and education and are highly limited by my strict criteria of three. You need really fun cooking mags too.
Happy reading! Dee
Cooking with Dee 
One of my favorite magazines is Penzey’s One. I love shopping for their spices and their magazine is probably one of my top favorites. I quit my subscription to Southern Living and started buying their annual recipes cookbook…I have every one since they started. I also love Cook’s and I love the test kitchen cookbooks.
Glad root canal went well…
There are only a few Penzeys storefronts but luckily one is right up the road apiece. It’s a joy to compare French to California basil by opening the apothecary jars there for that purpose. Most cooks don’t get that kind of treat for enhancing scent memory.
I have a few of Gourmet’s annual hardcovers from which I glean recipes, But Southern Living accounts for a lot of my Aunt Lorna’s recipes.
Keep checking in, thanks to you dog Zoe now has two flag-inspired bandannas and our red, white and blue TX star is on the door to celebrate the Fourth. And we’ll be right in the heart of the largest fireworks celebration in the USA thinking of our troops. D