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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | Books | Home » » Taste of Home | | | | | | | Description: | | Taste of Home America s #1 cooking magazine! Enjoy 100+ home-style recipes and tips, each a kitchen-tested family favorite made with everyday ingredients. Plus color photos of every recipe, cost-saving menus, healthy-choice dishes, casual entertaining ideas and more. | | | Product Details: | | | Format:
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| Reiman Publications | | Average Customer Rating:
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 SadMay 22, 2010
What once was a wonderful unique magazine has been turned into nothing but an advertising medium for the food industry.
1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 A Homestyle Magazine any Cook will EnjoyMar 25, 2010
Americans love food. One of the wealthiest countries on earth, the population of the United States has made eating one of its favorite pastimes. We love to eat--when we are hungry, with a gathering of family and friends, or for the simple pleasure of trying a new dish or revisiting a favorite. Out of this favorite pastime of eating has sprung another hobby in which Americans today love to participate in--that of cooking and preparing their food. Many people of the world view cooking as merely a necessity in life to prepare their daily meals to sustain themselves, but not Americans. For us, cooking and food preparation has become a great hobby composed of a skillful art. From this growing interest in cooking in the United States a whole new market of cooking helps has sprung in recent years. In particular, the magazine market has grown to accommodate many magazines on this topic in many different varieties and for any age audience. In my opinion, one of the finest current magazine publications on the topic of cooking is that of "Taste of Home," a bimonthly magazine by Reiman Publications.
In continual circulation since 1993, "Taste of Home" has quickly become a beloved magazine to its over 3 million readers. Setting itself apart from other popular cooking magazines, "Taste of Home" prides itself on being edited by over a thousand country cooks as well as its home cooked style of recipes that invites any chief (or a chief "want-to-be") at any level to take a try at cooking. Featuring regular columns of theme and potluck dinners, seasonal recipes, penny wise and quick preparation meals, snacks and desserts, cooking tips, and kitchen makeovers, any issue of this magazine is likely to meet the reader's recipe needs or increase their love of cooking.
On a whole this cooking magazine carries a "home style" feel of daily life and cooking, as it features many recipes that would be attractive to any typical American family. There is a pervasive family feel to the issues as they often are packed full of simple, yet hardy dishes in contrast to competitive magazines that may carry more of a fancy gourmet style of cooking. One attractive feature of this particular cooking publication is that nearly every recipe included comes with special comments from field editors around the country or from the readers who have submitted the recipes. These special comments increase the "home style" feel to this magazine, as if the recipes themselves are coming to you from your wonderful Great-Aunt Alice, cooking extraordinaire. Multiple columns of cooking tips and "how-to" sections, written by cooking experts and readers alike, outline step by step specific cooking suggestions and instructions that are formulated to easily increase its readers knowledge and confidence about trying new and attractive recipes.
Not only does this magazine give detailed recipes, tips, and cooking instructions, but every issue is full of gorgeous pictures of its dishes that so deliciously tempt the eye and stomach. Although the colorful photos appear attractive and life like, they are plated in such a way as to attract its readers to take a stab at cooking the dishes themselves. The photos wonderfully depict the food, but are not overly touched up in such a way as to cause its reader to feel that their dishes could never reach such a picture of perfection.
Through my personal experiences of reading "Taste of Home" through past years I have come to love every issue as it continually is not only a pleasure to read its expertly written articles, but to try my own hand at its recipes as well. I have nearly always found "Taste of Home" recipes to come out wonderfully through its detailed instructions, along with the dishes quickly become delicious hits in my family. Several slight drawbacks I have found from this magazine is that not all of the recipes are always the healthiest dishes. Recipes that are low in fat, sugar, or salt, are carefully labeled, however, with their Nutrition Facts and Diabetic Exchanges, which is another great feature of the magazine. Another such drawback is that although the middle section of the magazine has its recipes printed on neat double side "clip and keep" index size cards, other recipes printed in a regular column fashion are a bit tedious to cut out and store in a handy recipe box. On a whole however, I would highly recommend "Taste of Home" to any age reader who has any level of interest in learning to cook, gaining new recipes, or simply enjoys reading and looking at pictures of food. It is a wonderful magazine that is bound to be enjoyed by all and tempt the eyes, stomach, and hands to get busy and try cooking!
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
One of the best out thereJan 17, 2010
I have subscribed to many magazines, but this one is my favorite and one of the best on the market. The recipes are simple to follow, the food is delicious, the photos are gorgeous, and the down-home articles are well-written and lovely. It has become impossible for me to throw any of them away. I highly recommend this magazine to the home cook.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
:(Jan 04, 2010
I agree that this current TOH magazine publication is NOTHING like it used to be. And in my opinion not worth the cost. If I wanted to see all the ads etc with so few real recipes I'd do Woman's Day, Family Circle or the like. I got the original TOH for years and had to unsub when they changed the format. Recently I looked at the issues in the public library and was saddened that it was such an awful difference.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Truly sad decline in quality over the years!Dec 08, 2009
Like others have said, Taste of Home is not the magazine that it used to be. I'd always had fond memories of reading my mother's old issues of Taste of Home when I was a kid, so when I moved out on my own I bought a subscription.
What I received was a magazine printed on cheap paper with a huge amount of ads. The new Taste of Home is full of ads to the point that it is hard to tell if you are reading a magazine article or a recipe from a random company for a product. The few recipes that I tried from the issues I received were average at best and a couple were downright disgusting. I consider myself to be a pretty good cook, and I absolutely love comforting home cooked meals, but I will never buy this magazine again!
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