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The findings of a major long-term study of the effects of low fat diets on the health of middle-aged to elderly women are sweeping the major newspapers of the world today, mostly because the results go against conventional nutritional wisdom: switching to a diet low in fat does no good in protecting agasint cancer or […]

Very few magazines launch with a premier issue that has the highest circulation in its category, but the new monthly food magazine, Relish did just that on February 1, with circulation figures over 6.8 million. That makes it the highest circulating publication in the category of food magazines that accept advertising, with Cooking Light coming […]

New Zealand’s magazine of “food, wine & good living,”Cuisine, took top honors and a gold medal from the 2006 Gourmet Voice Gourmet Media World Festival in Cannes, France.
An annual international festival meant to honor and celebrate all sorts of food media, from books to film, to television and websites, the Gourmet Voice awards are juried […]

One of the best things about writing in a blog is that you get readers from across the globe. Because of the two-way nature of blog communication, readers and bloggers can become friends, and cross-cultural communication can bring about meaningful understanding between people who live in very different places.
As soon as I knew I […]

One may not believe it by looking at me, but good nutrition is important to me. No, I don’t jog, and I am not vegan-thin, but I am very concerned with knowing the latest research in healthy lifestyles and eating, and for that, I turn to Eating Well.
Eating Well started in the 1990’s but […]

I have always been of the opinion that if more people had to work as a waiter or waitress, they wouldn’t act like such twits when they go out to eat.
It appears that Frank Bruni, restaurant critic for the New York Times, agrees.
Even though it had been twenty years since he had last donned […]

The fifteen day Lunar New Year festival starts this Sunday, and people of Asian descent around the globe are preparing in a flurry of cooking, cleaning and shopping.
If a city has an appreciable population of Chinese, Vietnamese or Koreans, you can bet that in the next few days there will be an article outlining […]

The fledgling food magazine, CHOW, recently reviewed here at the Paper Palate, has sent email out to subscribers noting that it will be at least six months before another issue arrives, because they are taking a break in order to raise enough funds to keep the magazine going without another interruption, and so they can […]

Reader’s Digest Association recently announced that they are releasing a new, digest-sized food magazine entitled Delicious in May, which is meant to compete with upscale foodie publications like Conde Nast’s Gourmet and Bon Appetit. (Meanwhile, Conde Nast is rumored to be launching a spin-off of Self called “Dishes,” which will concentrate on healthy eating and […]

It’s looking like a trend: magazines featuring popular Food Network personalities are popping up all over.
First, Everyday with Rachael Ray hit the newstands, and a few weeks later, Paula Deen’s bimonthly publication appeared: Cooking with Paula Deen. (I am willing to bet that Semi-Homemade’s Sandra Lee has one in the works, too.)
Much like Ray’s magazine, […]