Recipe Box # 35 - Magazines
I have a pile of cooking magazines to read but I can't a moment time to read them. When it comes time to select a recipe, I turn to a cookbook or the Internet, not a magazine. I have been giving thought to the value of these mags. I am referring to the value for me based on how I use them. I keep two or three on my kitchen table so when I have a cup of coffee or sit down to lunch, I can go through them. I keep another one by my bed and it keeps me company, at night, if I am not reading a book. Usually, I am reading that book. Hubby and I are both readers and many the night, we both fall asleep with a book in hand. That leaves the magazines to be read in short spurts. I see lots of recipes in them that I want to make. Unless, I mark them, at that moment, I don't usually go back to them. The permanence of a cookbook has me using them over and over. Magazines don't have the same value. ...