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Article: Feeding aspirations is a worthy pursuit
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 14, 2009
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Like many of the people who have opined about the demise of
Gourmet, I grew up surrounded by the magazine: I ate up what was on
its pages, literally. The shelves that hold years of issues in my
parents' kitchen fed me through childhood, as my mother made risotto
before Arborio rice could be found in supermarkets, as my father
stuffed our weekend French toast with dark chocolate and glazed it
with jam. And thus the magazine fed my idea of what food is. It fed
everyone's idea of what food is.
And so, in a way, we grew out of it. Gourmet was an aspirational
magazine, imagining food as a symbol for sophistication. It helped
drive our palates, until that sophistication became part of the ...