Favorite Food Magazines - Part 2 of 3

Favorite Cooking Magazine #2: Cooking Light

Cooking Light has been delivered to my house for well over a decade. While I personally tend to focus on the spring and summer issues, the publication offers great seasonal recipes.

I particularly enjoy their spotlight topics such as regional cuisine or seasonal cookery. Unlike other culinary publications, this one offers simple direct recipes without all the "over the top" culinary snobbery. The recipes are easy to make and for the most part utilize common ingredients.

I also like that each issue covers a wide range of recipes from breakfast to late night desserts. If you fret hosting and holiday meals, fear no more - Cooking Light does an exceptional job of everything from the backgrounder to the menu to the gameplan for preparing the meal . It just does not get much easier than this.

There are recipes focused on kid friendly, budget cooking, vegetarian, super fast cooking, make ahead. In addition to a rich range of topics and recipes, the publication has a clean and easy to navigate design that is very friendly and inviting.

It is clear that the publication skews towards a female readership. While I do not fit their common demographic, their articles outside of food are well written and easy to digest making the publication an easy read. I particularly enjoy their travel and enthic food specials that do an exception job in a few pages of helping you to better understand the cuisine and key ingredient of a particular cuisine from around the world.

Cooking Light is my choice gift for folks that are interested in cooking and want to learn more.

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