Stack held its first award ceremony in December and they actually awarded The Gourmand "Magazing of the Year" so it comes well-recommended! It's a gorgeous item – really hefty with great colour photography and thick, glossy paper. According to The Gourmand's website it's printed by specialist art book printers and I can believe it.
And the contents are fun. The articles cover all sorts of topics related, even if only tangentially, to food. Amongst other things there's a history of Weight Watchers, jewellery inspired by fruit and vegetables, an article about Alexandre Dumas's cookbook and an interview with a DJ-turned-sake brewer. At the end of the magazine are recipes related to the articles, so you can read about Vincent Price's dinner parties and then flick to the back for his recipe for stuffed frankfurters. The quality of the writing does let it down in a couple of places, (the Weight Watchers article is a particularly great example of why you souldn't use five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do), but overall this was so much fun to read.
Would
I buy it again? Yes, I
think I might. It's expensive – £12 an issue – but it's such a
high-quality product that I don't really begrudge the price tag.
