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August 15, 2006
Natalie Haughton goes Midwest
Bigger than Bon Appetit, giants next to Gourmet, and don't even try to measure them against Martha Stewart Living. These cooking publications dwarf them all.
Daily News food editor Natalie Haughton today reports -- direct from the suburbs of Milwaukee -- on the biggest cooking magazine empire in the world -- Reiman Publications, whose publications include Taste of Home (3.5 million in circulation) Light & Tasty (800,000), Cooking for 2 (800,000 in circulation) and Simple & Delicious (formerly Quick Cooking, relaunched with a face lift in March and with circulation of 1.5 million).
The company's philosophy is to draw on reader-submitted recipes -- they get 90,000 a year -- to find out what America really cooks and eats. Those recipes are tested and whittled down to 2,500 to 3,.500 that are published per year, some of the best of which we present here.
Natalie also writes about their extensive Web site, which you can access here.
Here are the recipes selected by Natalie Haughton from the Taste of Home magazines:
Antipasto Pasta Salad
Southwestern Corn Chowder
Cream Cheese Finger Cookies
Four-Cheese Spinach Lasagne (the magazines' most popular recipe)
Eggs Lorraine
Makeover Fruit Pizza
Southwestern Bean Patties
Coconut Ice Cream Torte
Easy Chicken Enchiladas
Shrimp Cantonese
Cinnamon Raisin Strata
Cinnamon Apple Cheesecake
Anybody out there want to make some of these and tell us what you think?
Daily News online exclusive: What locals think of Taste of Home.
Posted by Steven Rosenberg at August 15, 2006 10:24 AM