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News & ArtsMonday, October 5, 2009
Chow / Media Goodbye, Gourmet
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:30 AM
- gourmet.com
As noted in Morning News, Gourmet is no more. Gawker has the internal Conde Nast memo and an obituary that is nice despite its use of the term "foodie."
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..along with Julia Child and Alice Waters, we have Gourmet to thank for the foodie revolution, thanks to which we're not all going out in suits and ties to pay 150 dollars for a plate of Chicken ala King and a baked potato with a fruit Jell-O dessert...The magazine became a beacon of non-technical literary writing about food featuring, in its earliest days, series such as the great MFK Fischer's Alphabet For Gourmets right up to David Foster Wallace's classic essay, "Consider the Lobster" published in Gourmet in 2004.
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It's the end of an era to be sure, but I stopped reading Gourmet about ten years ago. I was only interested in new, refreshing recipes. I wasn't interested in $1200 meals or hotels that were $4500 a night. I wasn't interested in dishes swimming in butter that would cost a fortune to prepare. I wasn't interested in recipes with ingredients I'd have to fly to Bongo Congo to obtain. The magazine became Fantasyland.
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