Yes, that was the one feature that remained with the magazine until the day it folded. I once requested sweet potato poopies from a diner in Montgomery, Alabama but they never answered me. Too bad, they were delicious, lol!
Well, I didn’t actually write-in; but just happened to read the feature one day, when someone else had requested the recipe that I had enjoyed. Apparently it was a popular dish at malls all over the country.
I have a hunch - maybe ‘wishful thinking’: I think folks might get tired of everything being online; and the actual publishing of paper magazines - or even mailed ‘newsletters’ like John Thorne’s - might come back again for some subjects :-)
There’s just something more personal, tactile, and substantial about them. Over the weekend I was in a bookstore for the first time in ages: the magazine section isn’t shrinking, it’s expanding, especially in the hobby and home-arts areas.
(I love the Internet; but there is still a place for old-school publishing of certain things, and I think there will always be.)
-JT