Posted on 03/11/2023 6:10:46 AM PST by Rummyfan
10 years ago, my wife officially retired as an RN.
She is a voracious reader, and she subscribed to many magazines and watched tv shows on our new tv. We also made many trips to our local library staffed by what we would now call the LBsomething/its.
Meanwhile, I was not renewing most of my magazines, other fish wraps and enjoying Amazon’s books online and delivery to our home.
Free Republic became my main source re what articles to read and what to avoid.
Meanwhile my wife was letting her magazine subscriptions retire and discovered the Amazon online/Kindle books with a simple monthly fee. Now, she reads between 4-6 Kindle books a week.
Our trips to the local liberal library went from one a week about one every month. Her favorite new books often were on the bottom shelf in the regular library instead of the new book section. She avoided the snarky librarians by using the self service checkout areas.
When the Covid B$ shutdown our local library, my wife no longer needed it. When, it reopened, she never went back to it.
She now hosts, once a week, a book reading group of women from our church. They read and discuss books at their sessions at our home. They order their books to read from Amazon.
We still get Garden and Gun. Love it.
The boating trade magazine (for the marine industry) is starting to become WOKE. A few months ago it was talking about how Climate Change will affect the marine industry. I’m waiting for them to write about MENTALLY ILL people (trans) and boating...
Cooks Country is good.
Milk Street is excellent. A good bit of well-written travel journalism with some of the recipes to give context and feel. Many of the recipes are complex and expensive (and tend toward more spicy than my wife likes) but are often really good.
The woke mob has ruined MANY magazines for me - most of them, in fact.
I don’t even recognize them by their content, versus several years ago.
That is a good show. The host Christopher Kimball used to be on America’s Test Kitchen.
Most of these cooking shows have gone woke.
Yes, it is like a religion. Perhaps more like a cult which shuns you if you don’t believe.
“Bon Appetit.”
I used to get that magazine back when I was first learning to cook. Well, learning to cook BETTER. ;) Loved it. Haven’t seen it in years, though.
I’m more of an ‘America’s Test Kitchen’ ‘Cooks Country’ and ‘Milk Street’ kind of cook these days.
I do like, ‘Garden and Gun’ magazine. At this point I have enough stashed recipes and cookbooks to try something new every day of the week until I die from choking on a chicken bone. ;)
I just cancelled BH&G as it’s so ‘woke’ now, too, and more like a ‘People’ magazine. I hate it. Show me homes, show me gardens! Cut the cr@p.
Martha Stewart is no longer publishing her magazine, either. Love her or hate her, I’ve learned so much from her through the years between cooking and gardening.
This is the garbage that these people love to celebrate.
A loyal wife getting dumped by her husband so he can pretend at being a girl? The poor woman...
There is nothing redeeming whatsoever about that.
On the other hand, she's better off without him.
Last year, my 24-year-old niece was featured in Bon Appetite as part of her restaurant’s review. She’s a pastry chef. Her espresso toffee cookies are the best!
Decades ago I found some excellent recipes in that magazine that I still make, but haven’t seen it lately.
Too bad they’ve gone woke. About 25 years ago I cancelled my subscription to Country Living and told them that if they really tried they could find some really good heterosexual couples who were good at decorating. Even then, things were starting to go crazy.
Perhaps so. Hope she got a good settlement.
Good for you and thanks for the warning. Make sure you let them know the reason for dropping them.
Boner appetie? Nah, none for me, thanks.
I have never seen any of the shows, but I haven’t watched anything on TV since the mid 1990’s. I don’t listen to radio except for the jazz and classical stations. I can say I’ve never seen Fox ‘News’ nor MSNBC.
All of the cooking magazines suck compared to the late, great Gourmet; but Milk Street at least has some reasonably sophisticated recipes.
I admire you. We all would probably be better off without much of the garbage on TV.
I quit our small local library years ago when ‘the homeless’ were invited to sit at computers and watch porn on screens people could see passing by...
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