Goodbye Gourmet

As I'm sure you all know by now, the incomparable Gourmet is ceasing publication. It will be tough to imagine a world without such a culinary keystone. I remember flipping through my step-grandmother's stacks of back issues as a little girl - all those glossy pages filled with impeccable dinners, words I couldn't yet digest, and that fantastic winding title script (I'm a sucker for a nice font)! I'm sure her infamous hollandaise sauce and creamy cheese cake came from between those pages. My grandfather's steak that always went alongside the two prior dishes, that's another story...

"Gourmet showed us the real possibilities of food: It wasn't just to nourish the body or excite the palate, but to engage the mind and imagination, to magnify our experience, bringing us more fully into our senses, allowing us to be more completely alive."


Goodbye, Gourmet.

Images, top to bottom: Seriously Wine and Gourmet Magazine
Quote: Diana Abu-Jaber for NPR