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I've always enjoyed UK-based food publications. I pick up the odd "BBC Good Food" magazine off shelves in Shanghai, and really enjoy the fact that they feature vegetarian mains seriously, and have recipes from a wider range of ethnic magazines than US magazines seem to bother with. BBC Good Food is obviously aimed at casual cooks - the recipes are usually fairly simple, but I've still clipped several, including a vegetable biryani that gets raves every time I cook it. I have a magazine distributor that will order in magazines for me, but I don't know what titles I should be looking for. Help?

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Erin,

Can't help you with UK publications as I've given up on them due to the sameness and repetition of recipes, but... my favourite food and wine magazine is from New Zealand. It's a magazine called Cuisine which has intelligent food and wine writing and great recipes. If you can get over the fact that it is six months out of sync if you are in the Northern Hemisphere, it's well worth ordering.

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We only subscribe to BBC Good Food, occasionally also buying Olive and Delicious.

I was recently sent a copy of "Great British Food" and have just taken out a subscription. It's much more of a food, rather than recipe, magazine. On the strength of the one issue, I think it's a good read. A few seasonal recipes included. http://www.greatbritishfoodmagazine.com/

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I don't subscribe to any magazines, preferring just to google any recipe or clicking on BBC Food where there is a vast amount of recipes. Or consult some of our huge range of books.

Having said all of that I was in the Dentist waiting room yesterday and browsed through a copy of Delicious, and was very impressed by the quality and quantity of the recipes.

If I was a buyer, I would put my money there.

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In a rash moment, I subscribed to "Fork" magazine. I say rash because I hadnt realised that, whilst it has a handful of more general articles, it is essentially a magazine for the south west of England. Now, if I lived in that part of the country, I'd find the reviews of local suppliers, gastropubs and the like to be fascinating. But I don't.

So, on a slight tangent to the OP, I wonder if there are any other regional foodie magazines around?

John Hartley

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Nice to see I'm at least on the right track with BBC Good Food. I'll keep an eye out for Delicious. About ten years ago, my aunt used to save me all of her Sainsbury's magazines, and ship them over with travelling relatives. I loved them, mainly for their exoticism, I suppose. Do they still put a magazine out, and is it any good any more?

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Sainsbury is our usual supermarket and, yes, they still publish a magazine (although I don't know if the publisher is still Delia Smith's husband). We havnt bought it for some years - it seemed to become less of a food magazine and more "lifestyle" and, certainly, more an advertising vehicle for their current "special offers".

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I would recomend Fire and Knives, a quarterly publication. It isn't so much about cooking but contains some of the best food writing around, great art, typography and, essential I think, a sense of humour. It's philosophy seems to me to be, it's only food, let's have some fun with it.

But surely you don't need to buy yet more glossy mags from supermarkets to work out what to eat this week. You've got shelves full of cook books going back to before you were married. And the little shelf under the kitchen counter is groaning under the weight of recipes torn out from Sunday supplements. However, if it is food porn you desire go no further, simply pop to the UK dining thread and check out the meaningless shots of platefuls of grub from restaurants nowhere near you and way beyond your means. You'll be relieved you can't hear the panting and the tearing of tissue paper. Add to that the tragic loss in the quality of writing on this site recently and the hijacking of egullet as some kind of live chat room pointlessness, "might go next week, yeah?", " anybody know a good Sumatran place between Gatwick and Crawley?", and you'll be rushing back to the safety of Elizabeth and Nigel like a scalded cat.

Good food writing is out there. Just not in the UK section of this site any more.

And no. I am not the publisher, printer, writer or otherwise, of Fire And Knives.

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I would recomend Fire and Knives, a quarterly publication. It isn't so much about cooking but contains some of the best food writing around, great art, typography and, essential I think, a sense of humour. It's philosophy seems to me to be, it's only food, let's have some fun with it...

....And no. I am not the publisher, printer, writer or otherwise, of Fire And Knives.

Fire & Knives is a quality publication, just over a year old published by freelance Journo Tim Hayward. Who, if anybody follows him on Twitter enjoys that then the mag will be right up your street.

We did an interview with him late last year, very entertaining and yet a font of knowledge.

Shame it is only published quarterly, although from small acorns grow & all that..

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