I feel like I just attended a funeral for an old family friend. I remember being young and wanting to be a chef. My parents (or maybe my aunt, I don't remember) got me a subscription to
Gourmet. I don't know what else to say, but this is very sad.












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Gourmet magazine was a monthly publication of Condé Nast Publications and the first U.S. magazine devoted to food and wine. Founded by Earle R. MacAusland and first published in
1941,
Gourmet also covered "good living" on a wider scale.
On October 5, 2009 Condé Nast announced that
Gourmet will cease monthly publication by the end of 2009, due to a decline in advertising sales and shifting food interests among the readership. Editor Ruth Reichl, in the middle of a tour promoting the Gourmet Today cookbook, confirmed that the magazine's November 2009 issue, distributed in mid-October, was the magazine's last. The
Gourmet brand will continue to be used by Condé Nast for book and television programming and recipes appearing on Epicurious.com." via
Wikipedia Photos via
Blog of a former employee of Gourmet, Kevin Demaria