I got my charter issue of "Cook's Country," the new magazine from
the Cook's Illustrated folks. The first thing that hit me was, man,
this sucker is huge! I don't mean thickness-wise (it's only 32
pages), but it's about the size of the old Life magazine. That's a
negative for me. But that's about the only negative I have. It's
very reader-oriented, with a lot of content coming from contest
results, stories of cooking mishaps, requests for recipes, and the
like. In fact, it's a little like this newsgroup, except this
rec.food.cooking doesn't cost me $19.99/year.

Will I pay for the subscription? I haven't decided yet. God knows
we don't need another magazine coming into the house, but it looks
worthwhile and is certainly entertaining.

Leo