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Magazine and Newspaper Recipes
Folks, I get lots of requests for specific recipes from specific issues of magazines such as
"Bon Appetit", "Gourmet", "McCall's", "Better Homes and Gardens", "Woman's Day", and the like.
I don't read them, and I have no way to search for recipes from specific issues of magazines.
I need the name of the recipe and as many ingredients as you can remember. I can't find it by
knowing it was in the December, 1983 issue of Better Homes and Gardens. If the recipe is on the
Internet at all, it may not mention the magazine. Once in a while, someone will post a recipe
from a magazine and will tell which magazine they got it from, but that's a fairly rare occurence.
Even if they do, I need the name of the recipe and some ingredients. Just knowing that it's a
stuffing recipe and that it was in the December, 1983 issue of "Bon Appetit" is not enough
information. If I find something like that, it will be 90% luck.
Most of the major magazines with recipes have websites and many have recipe archives on their
sites. Please check them first.
The fact that a recipe was printed in the food section of a newspaper like the "New York Times"
or the "Chicago Tribune" or the "L.A. Times", etc. doesn't mean the recipe is going to be on the
Internet. Even if it is on the Internet, it probably was placed on a message board, and the person
posting it. may or may not have written in their message that the recipe is from The "Boston Globe",
etc. True, some newspapers have archives on the Internet, but some of them don't go back very far,
and some of them have fees for each article they let you download. You can usually forget calling
or e-mailing the newspaper. Their employees don't have time or their employers' permission to go
and search their archives for a recipe for you.
If you absolutely must have a recipe from a newspaper, your best bet is to go to the public
library and search the archived copies of that newspaper for the time period in which the recipe
appeared.
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