Brokelyn

We hate to see any magazines fold, but Condé Nast’s announcement that the company is shuttering Gourmet, Cookie, Modern Bride and Elegant Bride leaves us saddest about Gourmet, and not only because the Ruth Reichl-edited mag is so much classier than its surviving sister, Bon Appétit. We can’t remember clipping a single recipe from Gourmet’s pages and never even opened the 69-year-old title on some busy months, but it’s remained on our ever-shortening subscription list for one reason alone: those ethereal covers. Read the rest of this entry »