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An unscientific survey.

What do you like to see in yours?

restaurant reviews

chef profiles

news about restaurant openings and special offers

recipes - complicated ones/simple ones

wine education

what wine in the supermarket is worth buying at the moment

food and wine matching tips

Anything else?

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All of that (except chef profiles).

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All of that, and no "lectures" about nutrition fads promoted by untrained (in science OR cooking) fitness "trainers".

We haven't gotten printed newspapers for many, many years. Our home-delivery carriers would leave the morning newspaper anywhere but in the designated location, requiring that we fully dress and put on boots & coat to retrieve it. We just gave up. The only sections I miss are the comics and the pull-out food magazine. Everything else is easily readable online, from multiple newspapers to get comparative viewpoints.

Edited by: Midwesterner to note that we do still read, just online.


Take your initial estimate, double that and add 20 percent.
It always takes more time and money than you think it should.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "pullout food magazine."

We get two papers, both of which have weekly food and wine sections. They are regular newspaper sections, not just some glossy supplement. They include most of what you list above, as well as some food writer columns, product reviews, and occasional profiles of home cooks or a local cooking contest winner.


Nutrax
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Nutrax - really I just mean what do you like to read in the Food section of your newspaper?

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I receive a paper every day and an extra one on Sundays, the Buenos Aires Herald.
You can check it online.

The BA herald has a special couple of pages fully devoted to analyze food, wine, restaurants and origins of certain articles used in cooking. Is quite interesting even when the writer sounds totally patronizing but he really knows what he talks about ( IMHO)
The Cheff who writes the column has travelled all over the world and I think is of Armenian origin, has tried food from almost everywhere and knows as many details as one can wonder.

The other paper, Clarin, has a column on the Sunday's magazine (errr Sundays'?) which has a couple of receipes but nothing you would be too interested in trying.

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I usually disregard most food articles in newspapers because they could be bias and/ or in the form of an advertorial.

What I do zero in on however are the menu recipes by chefs from the big hotels and restaurants simply for the reason they are a tried and tested crowd pleaser.

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I'm not old enough to remember newspapers.

OK OK that's not true but I haven't paid for one in at least 8 years and as to actually reading newsprint......maybe three times a year while waiting in some office.

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What I like that you didn't mention is pieces about local food shops, especially ethnic ones, that I might not know about.

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Thanks Vinny.

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